Leslie Andrew Garay (August 6, 1924 – August 19, 2016), born Garay László András, was an American botanist.[1] He was the curator of the Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium at Harvard University, where he succeeded Charles Schweinfurth in 1958.[2] In 1957 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[3]
Garay was born in Hungary, and after the Second World War he emigrated first to Canada and then to the United States. He was a taxonomist and collector of orchids, particularly interested in the orchids of tropical America and Southeast Asia.[4]
His ideas were influential in orchid taxonomy,[5] and he reorganized several genera, including Oncidium.[4] In addition to reclassification of various species into different genera, he defined a number of new genera including Chaubardiella in 1969 and Amesiella in 1972.
Among his influential publications were:
- Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated, Galfrid C. K. Dunsterville & Leslie A. Garay, Andre Deutsch, London & Amsterdam, 1959–76, 334 pp. ISBN 0233964118
- Natural & artificial hybrid generic names of orchids, 1887–1965, 1966, Botanical Museum leaflets, Harvard University, 212 pp.
- Flora of the Lesser Antilles: Orchidaceae , 1974, Garay, Los Angeles, HR Sweet, Amer Orchid Soc. ISBN 99941-1-617-7
- Orchids of the Southern Ryukyu Islands, 1974, Leslie A. Garay & Herman R. Sweet, Botanical Museum, Harvard University, 180 pp.
- Orchidaceae, Cypripedioideae, Orchidoideae, Neottioideae, vol. 9 of Flora of Ecuador, NFR, 304 pp.
- Orchids Venezuela, Galfrid C. K. Dunsterville & Leslie A. Garay, 3 volumes, 1979, Publ. Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium of the Botanical Museum of Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Systematics of the genus Stelis SW, 1979, Harvard University, Botanical Museum leaflets, 259 pp.
- Index to the orchid herbarium of Oakes Ames in the Botanical Museum of Harvard University, 1989, Chadwyck-Healey, 204 pp. ISBN 0-89887-080-1
The following plants have been named in his honour:
- Genera
- Species
American Men & Women of Science – Volume 3. Thomson/Gale. 2009. p. 28. ISBN 978-0787665265. Schultes, Richard Evans (1958). "Garay appointed curator of Ames Orchid Herbarium". American Orchid Society Bulletin. 27: 583–584. Lankester Botanical Garden (2010). "Biographies" (PDF). Lankesteriana. 10 (2/3): 183–206, page 190. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 May 2014. Levy, Mrs. Ralph (2005). "In Tribute: Leslie A. Garay, PhD". Orchids. 74: 488.
Szlachetko, Dariusz L. (1995). "Garayanthus Szlach". Fragmenta Floristica et Geobotanica (Supp. 3): 136.
Szlachetko, Dariusz L. (1993). "Garaya (Orchidaceae, Spiranthinae), a new orchid genus from Brazil". Polish Botanical Studies. 5: 1–4, page 4.
Seidenfaden, Gunnar (1988). "Orchid Genera in Thailand XIV: Fifty-nine vandoid genera". Opera Botanica. 95: 1–398, page 190.
Dunsterville, Galfrid Clement Keyworth (1981). "Orchids of Venezuela: Apatostelis garayi—a thank-you orchid". American Orchid Society Bulletin. 50 (9): 1075.)
Christenson, Eric A. (1992). "Notes on Asiatic Orchids". Lindleyana. 7 (2): 88–94, page 89.
Dodson, Calaway H.; Vásquez Chávez, Roberto (1989). Orchids of Bolivia. Icones Plantarum Tropicarum, Series 2. Vol. 3. Sarasota, Florida: Marie Selby Botanical Gardens. p. t. 210. OCLC 180557331. Hawkes, Alex D.; Heller, Alfonse H. (1957). "Nomenclatorial Notes in the Dendrobium Alliance". Lloydia. 20: 120.
Szlachetko, Dariusz L.; Olszewski, Tomasz Sebastian (2001). Achoundong, G.; Morat, Philippe (eds.). Orchidacées, volume III. Flore du Cameroun, 0071-5875 (in French). Vol. 36. Yaoundé, Cameroon: Ministère de la recherche scientifique et technique. pp. 666–948, page 740. OCLC 492696608. Løjtnant, Bernt (1977). "Notes on the genus Epidendrum (Orchidaceae) in Ecuador". Botaniska Notiser. 130 (3): 325. Rice, Rod (2001). "The Department of Stanhopeinae: Gongora garayana Rice sp. nov.: a new species of the subgenus Portentosa from Colombia". Oasis, the Journal. 1 (4): 3–6.
Rice, Rod (2001). "Department of Stanhopeinae: notes on the genus Gongora Ruiz and Pavon (Orchidaceae)". Oasis, the Journal. 2 (1): 10–12.
Szlachetko, Dariusz L.; Olszewski, Tomasz Sebastian (1998). Satabie, B.; Morat, Philippe (eds.). Orchidacées, volume I. Flore du Cameroun, 0071-5875 (in French). Vol. 34. Yaoundé, Cameroon: Ministère de la recherche scientifique et technique. pp. 1–320, page 143.
Hashimoto, Tamotsu (1974). "Contributions to the Orchidology of Andean Countries: Bolivian Novelties from the Collection of the Scientific Expedition to South America. University of Tokyo, 1971, Part 1". Journal of Japanese Botany (Shokubutsu Kenkyu Zasshi). 49 (11): 12.
Szlachetko, Dariusz L.; Kolanowska, Marta (2014). "Generic delimitation of the genera Brevilongium and Otoglossum (Orchidaceae) with description of new species from Colombia and Panama". Plant Biosystems. 148 (6): 1148–1159. doi:10.1080/11263504.2014.916363. S2CID 84519749. as Pleurothallis garayi Pabst, Guido Frederico João (1973). "Additamenta ad orchideologiam brasiliensem: 15". Bradea: Boletim do Herbarium Bradeanum. 1 (36): 361–370, page 364.
Luer, Carlyle A. (2007). A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador, Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia: Systematics of Miscellaneous Small Genera, Species and Combinations (Orchidaceae). Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXIX, Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 112. St. Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. p. 119. ISBN 978-1-930723-63-4. González Tamayo, Roberto (1992). "Schiedeella garayana (Orchidaceae), nueva especie del estado de Jalisco". Boletin del Instituto de Botanica (in Spanish). 1 (2): 42–48, page 43.
Sweet, Herman Royden (1973). "Orquideas andinas poco conocidas. VII. Schlimia Planchon & Linden ex Lindley. (Little-known Andean orchids. VII)". Orquideologia. 8: 3–14, page 8.
Szlachetko, Dariusz L. (1995). "Notes on the genus Stigmatosema (Orchidaceae, Spiranthinae)". Lindleyana. 10 (1): 7–17, page 17.
Senghas, Karlheinz (1993). Orchideen: Pflanzen der Extreme, Gegensätze und Superlative / Orchids: Plants of extremes, contrasts and superlatives. Berlin: Verlag Paul Parey. p. 174. ISBN 978-3-489-64024-0.
