Roberto Gonzalez Tamayo

Roberto González Tamayo (1945 - January 23, 2014) was an engineer, botanist, and professor at the Botanical Institute of the University of Guadalajara in Mexico.

Biography

Since 1960, the date of the founding by Professor Luz Maria Villarreal de Puga, of the Herbarium of the Institute of Botany of the University of Guadalajara in Mexico. The teacher Roberto González Tamayo, has contributed to the enrichment of this herbarium and those of other institutions, with specimens collected by him.

On November 19, 2004, the University of Guadalajara and the University Center for Biological and Agricultural Sciences named him emeritus teacher for his invaluable contributions to the knowledge of Mexican Orchids and his outstanding teaching work in this house of studies.

Numerous contributions are owed to him in reclassifications of Mexican orchids in collaboration with other authors, and the creation of the genus Hagsatera of the Orchidaceae family in 1974, with two species of orchids, one of them H. brachycolumna formerly classified in the genus Encyclia.

Work

• Apercu sur les Orchidées mexicaines (L ́Orchidophile) 3rd and 4th parts. Tamayo.R. and A.Jouy. 1995

• Malaxis boxesii (Orchidaceae). Gonzalez Tamayo. 1996

• Le Gongorinae 7 Stanhopea Part 16 Caesiana. Rudolf.J. and R.González. 1997

• A new species of Brachystele (Orchidaceae) from Western Mexico. Szlachetko.D. and R.González. 1998

• Luz Maria Villarreal de Puga, a teacher with a naturalist vocation. Zamudio. R.S., A.P. Miranda. N., R. González T., and Lisbeth Hernández. H. 1998

Other works with bibliographic references

• González-Tamayo, R. 1976. Preliminary list of orchids from Jalisco. Orquídea (Mexico). Mexico. 5(11): 350.

• González T, R. 1978. Habenaria rzedowskiana, an old undescribed species Orquídea (Mexico). Mexico. 7(2): 138-141.

• González T, R. 1992. Two new species of the genus Habenaria (Orchidaceae). Bulletin of the Institute of Botanics of the University of Guadalajara. Mexico. 1(4): 321-332.

• González T, R. 1993. Some considerations about the genus Habenaria (Orchidaceae) in Mexico. Bulletin of the Institute of Botanics of the University of Guadalajara. Mexico. 1(4): 321-332.

• González T, R. 1994. Malaxis rodriguezana (Orchidaceae), a new species from the west of Mexico. Bulletin of the Institute of Botanics of the University of Guadalajara. Mexico 2(3-4): 97-102.

• González T, R. 1998. Two new species of Habenaria (Orchidaceae), from the west of Mexico. Bulletin of the Institute of Botanics of the University of Guadalajara. Mexico. 6(2-3): 203-212.

• González T, R. 2003. Malaxis (Orchidaceae), brief discussion of the specific traits and two new Mexican taxons. Bulletin of the Institute of Botanics of the University of Guadalajara. 10(1-2):67-75.

• González T, R. and X. Cuevas-Figueroa. 2006. Notes for the study of Mexican habenaries of white flowers (Orchidaceae). Bulletin of the Institute of Botanics of the University of Guadalajara. 12(2):3-44.

• González T, R., and X. Cuevas-Figueroa. 2007. Some habenarias from the west of Mexico, confused with Habenaria filifera S. Watson (Orchidaceae). Bulletin of the Institute of Botanics of the University of Guadalajara. 14(1-2):23-49.

• González T., R., L. Hernández H. and Ma. E. Ramírez M. 2008. Some developments in the genus Malaxis (Orchidaceae) in the west of Mexico. Bulletin of the Institute of Botanics of the University of Guadalajara. 15(1-2):35-64.

• González T., J. R. and L. Hernández H. 2010. The orchids of the west of Mexico. COECYTJAL. Mexico Vol 1. 301.

• The abbreviation "R.González" is used to indicate Roberto González Tamayo as an authority in the description and scientific classification of vegetables.