ABSTRACT
(Named for the American botanist Richard Evans Schultes, 1915–2001, botanical explorer, ethnobotanist, plant collector, Jeffrey Professor of Biology and Director of the Botanical Museum of Harvard University, member of the Linnean Society of London, author of Where the Gods Reign. Plants and People of the Colombian Amazon. London 1988, with Robert F. Raffauf wrote Vine of the Soul. Medicine Men, Their Plants and Rituals in the Colombian Amazonia. Synergetic Press, Oracle, Arizona 1992 and The Healing Forest. Medicinal and Toxic Plants of the Northwest Amazonia. Dioscorides Press, Portland, Oregon 1992, with Arthur Stanley Pease wrote Generic Names of Orchids. Their Origin and Meaning. 38. Academic Press, New York 1963.)
