Cedric Errol Carr

Cedric Errol Carr (16 November 1892 – 3 June 1936) was a New Zealand botanist, specialising in orchids. At the age of seven he went to England with his family but from January 1913 until 1931, apart from military service from 1916 to 1918, he worked on rubber plantations in Malaya.

In 1933 and 1934 he worked at the Kew Herbarium before travelling to New Guinea and spending several years collecting around Port Moresby, including the Kairuku-Hiri District. He collected in the New Guinea Highlands including in the Owen Stanley Range at altitudes up to .

The palm, Hydriastele carrii Burret (now known as Hydriastele wendlandiana (F.Muell.) H.Wendl. & Drude), and the mistletoe genus, Cecarria Barlow, are named after him.

Publications (list incomplete) Carr, C. E. (1928). Orchid pollination notes. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 6(1 (102), 49–73. JSTOR Carr, C. E. (1933). Some Malayan Orchids IV. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 11(1 (116), 66-iv. JSTOR Carr, C. E. (1934). Coelogyne zurowetzii. Orchid Rev, 42, 44. Holttum, R. E., & Carr, C. E. (1932). Notes on hybridisation of orchids. Malayan Orchid Rev, 1, 13–17. Carr, C. E. (1934). On a collection of orchids from the Solomon Islands. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), 375–383. JSTOR