Biography

Gualterio Looser Schallemberg, Chilean botanist and anthropologist (Santiago 04 September 1898 – Santiago 22 July 1982)

From Swiss parents

DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA

Genera

Garaventia 1941

Johowia 1937 with Epling

Plarodrigoa 1935

Species

Adesmia herteri 1936

Austroblechnum fernandezium 1947

Denstaedtia glauca C.Ch. ex Looser 1932

Laureliopsis philippiana 1934

Lycopodium barrosii 1945

Oxalis hickenii 1935

Varieties

Blechnum auriculatum var. typicum 1947

Blechnum blechnoides var. typicum 1947

Polypodium feuillei var. ibanezii 1952

Puya coerulea var. intermedia 1935 with L.B. Sm.

Puya coerulea var. monteroana 1935 with L.B. Sm.

HONORS

Looseria Thériot 1934 (Musci)

LINKS

http://rchn.biologiachile.cl/pdfs/1983/2/Martinez_1983.pdf (in Spanish; with bibliography)