Cirilo Nelson

{{Short description|Honduran botanist (1938–2020)}}

Cirilo Nelson (30 July 1938 – 26 December 2020)[https://www.latribuna.hn/2020/12/26/muere-en-espana-destacado-cientifico-hondureno-cirilo-nelson/ Muere en España destacado científico hondureño Cirilo Nelson] {{in lang|es}} was a Honduran botanist and researcher at the Department of Biology of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras.{{cite book|last1=Robles|first1=Gabriel|last2=Ocampo|first2=Rafael|title=Situación de los herbarios de Centroamérica y el Caribe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iu5ytlXAYGMC&pg=PA91|date=1 January 1996|publisher=CATIE|isbn=978-9977-57-258-1|page=91}} In 1965, he earned his master's degree at the University of Colorado. In the mid 1980s, he collected plants with the likes of David Ruiz and Sandra Gomez in the Swan Islands.{{cite book|title=Brenesia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=toFNAQAAIAAJ|year=1994|page=74}} He is particularly renowned for his catalogue of Honduran plants, around 10,127 described species, believed to be representative of about 60 percent of what exists.{{cite news|url=http://www.elheraldo.hn/csp/mediapool/sites/ElHeraldo/AlFrente/story.csp?cid=565770&sid=300&fid=209|title=El herbario de Zamorano|newspaper=El Heraldo|accessdate=23 May 2015|language=Spanish}}

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