George Eiten, US-born Brazilian plant ecologist (Morristown 20 november 1923 – Brasilia 25 September 2012)

World authority on Cerrado

SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY 

The Cerrado Vegetation of Brazil. Bot. Rev. 38:201-41, 1972

Delimitation of the Cerrado concept. Veget. 36:169-78, 1978

Formas fisionômicas do cerrado. Rev. Bras. Bot. 2:139-48, 1979

With Silberbauer-Gottsberger. Fitossociologia de um hectare de cerrado. Brasil Florestal 13(54):55-70, 1983

Vegetation of Brasilia. Phytocoenologia 12:271-92, 1984

With Silberbauer-Gottsberger. A Hectare of Cerrado. I. General Aspects of the Trees and Thick-stemmed shrubs. Phyton 27:55-91, 1987

His first wife, Liene de Jesus Teixeira Eiten, Brazilian botanist (Caxias, Maranhão State 09 February 1925 – Brasilia 28 October 1979)

DESCRIBED PLANT TAXA 

Tribes

Micropapyreae 1976

Syntrinemeae 1976

Genus

Egleria 1964 (Cyperaceae) 

Species

Egleria fluctuans 1964

Eleocharis chamaegyne 1972

SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY

Notes on Brazilian Cyperaceae. I. Phytologia 13(1):36-43, 1966

Anatomia da parte vegetative de Eleocharis interstincta (Vahl) Roem. & Schult. Arqu. Bot. Estado São Paulo 4:187-228, 1969 

Notes on Brazilian Cyperaceae. II. Phytologia 20:273-6, 1970

Aspectos morfológicos e sistemáticos da família Cyperaceae. Doctoral Thesis, ESALQ, Univ. São Paulo (1972)

Inflorescence units in the Cyperaceae. Annals of Missouri Botanical Garden 63:81-112, 1976

The Morphology of Some Critical Brazilian Species of Cyperaceae. Annals of Missouri Botanical Garden 63:113-99, 1976

HONORS (both)

Eitenia King & Robinson 1974 (Asteraceae)