Spjut, Richard Wayne   (1945 - )

Born on 3 Oct 1945:

University: Studied Botany at California State Polytechnic, Humboldt, School year 1971.

American botanist, plant collector, mycologist and lichenologist.

He has collected in: Tropical Africa: (Kenya, Tanzania); Australia: (WA, Tas.); various North American regions.

World Botanical Associates (WBA)

The WBA was founded by Richard Spjut in May 1983 in Laurel, Maryland to collect plants for pharmaceutical research following termination in October 1982 of a cooperative agreement between the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) that searched for new drugs to treat cancer.

Spjut, who devoted 10 years to this program, was reassigned by the ARS to identify geographical sources of genetic material (germplasm) for acquisition and maintenance of viable agricultural crops in the United States, and to conduct systematic research on plant genera that were of interest to the USDA germplasm.

Australian expeditions

- Western Australia, 1981 (Aug-Oct): 758 general samples (1-2 kg/sample).
- Tasmania. 1981 (Nov). 70 kg of Notelaea ligustrina root from south-western rain forest with assistance from the Tasmanian Forestry Commission, the American Embassy, and CSIRO.
- Western Australia, 1991 (Feb): Re-collections of Conospermum and Anthocercis.
- Western Australia, 1992 (Aug-Nov), survey and collection of Conospermum. spp.

See: World Botanical Memoirs 1: 1-41 October 2014,
Richard W. Spjut, 'A Taxonomic Review of Western Australian Plants Screened in KB Cell Culture and Other Bioassays in the Search for New Anticancer Drugs', Link

Source: Extracted from:
https://www.facebook.com/richard.spjut/
https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/1633848/overview
https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wayne_Spjut
http://www.worldbotanical.com/who-we-are.htm
http://www.worldbotanical.com/images/Spjut-WA%20plants-KB-screening-data2.pdf
http://worldbotanical.com/Spjut-exped.htm
Portrait Photo: Loop: https://loop.frontiersin.org/images/profile/295579/203

Australian collecting localities for 'Spjut, R.' from AVH (2024)

Data from 801 specimens