peoplepill id: terence-macleave-salter
TMS
South Africa
6 views today
6 views this week
Terence Macleave Salter
Royal Navy officer and botanist

Terence Macleave Salter

The basics

Quick Facts

Intro
Royal Navy officer and botanist
A.K.A.
Terence Macleane Salter T.M.Salter
Work field
Gender
Male
Birth
Place of birth
Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Death
Place of death
Cape Town, South Africa
Age
86 years
Notable Works
Flora of the Cape Peninsula
 
Terence Macleave Salter
The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Terence Macleane Salter (5 February 1883 – 30 March 1969) was a British/South African plant collector and botanist. Among the plant taxa named in his honor are the genus Saltera (Penaeaceae) and the orchid Disa salteri.

Biography

Salter was the second child of Emily Susannah Wilding and James Colam Salter. He was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. He joined the Royal Navy in 1900 and was promoted to assistant paymaster in 1901. He served aboard HMS Majestic in Gibraltar. He became paymaster-captain in 1916.

He was stationed at Naval Base Simon's Town, South Africa, from 1927 until his retirement in 1931 at the rank of Paymaster Commander. During his commission in Simon's Town, he collected mainly from the Cape area. The specimens he collected during this period were added to the herbarium collection at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Natural History Museum, London.

After his emigration to South Africa in 1935, he resumed his collecting work, for the herbarium collections of South African National Biodiversity Institute and the Bolus Herbarium until 1957.

Double-flowered Oxalis compressa

He worked with Robert Stephen Adamson, with whom he published the Flora of the Cape Peninsula in 1950. He was employed at the Bolus Herbarium until 1960, during which time he became a specialist on the Cape flora, in particular the genus Oxalis.

He died in Cape Town at an age of 86 years old.

Eponyms

Salter has several plant taxa named in his honor, including the genus Saltera (Penaeaceae), the orchid Disa salteri, Lachenalia salteri, Lampranthus salteri and Oxalis salteri.

Selected publications

  • Notes on some of the species of Drosera occurring in the cape Peninsula, including the new species D. glabripes (Harv.) Salter and D. curviscapa Salter, 1939
  • The genus Oxalis in South Africa, a taxonomic revision, 1944
The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Lists
Terence Macleave Salter is in following lists
comments so far.
Comments
From our partners
Sponsored
Credits
References and sources
Terence Macleave Salter
arrow-left arrow-right instagram whatsapp myspace quora soundcloud spotify tumblr vk website youtube pandora tunein iheart itunes