Donovan Stewart Correll

Donovan "Don" Stewart Correll (13 April 1908, Wilson, North Carolina – 28 March 1983, Miami, Florida) was an American botanist, plant collector, and plant taxonomist, specializing in orchids.

Biography Correll grew up in North Carolina. For two years, before entering college, he took voice lessons and sang solos in church and on radio. He also spent a year doing various jobs in Florida. At Duke University, he graduated with A.B. in 1934, A.M. in 1936, and Ph.D. in 1939. Some of his doctoral work was done at Harvard University, where he worked under the orchidologist Oakes Ames, who introduced him to economic botany. At Harvard, Correll was financially assisted by the Anna C. Ames Memorial Scholarship. In 1937 he married Helen Elizabeth Butts (1907–2000). She received her Ph.D. in zoology from Duke University in 1934. She worked extensively on botany with her husband and became an expert on grasses and sedges.

He was from 1939 to 1943 a research associate at the Harvard University Botanical Museum. In 1943 he also worked as a botanist for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) on the Alaska Highway Botanical-Geological Survey, which was connected with the Alaska Highway project. From 1944 to 1946 he was a U.S. Navy gunnery officer. at Harvard University.

For the academic year 1959–1960 he was a Guggenheim Fellow.

From 1971 to 1973 Correll worked as Program Director for Systematic Biology at the National Science Foundation.

Eponyms Correllia A.M.Powell (Asteraceae; synonym for the genus Perityle) Correlliana D'Arcy (Primulaceae)

Selected publications Brown, Claire A. & Correll, Donovan Stewart: Ferns and fern allies of Louisiana. Louisiana State University Press. 1942 Correll, Donovan Stewart: Collecting wild potatoes in Mexico. Circular / USDA, 1948 Correll, Donovan Stewart: Native Orchids of North America, North of Mexico. Chronica Botanica Company, 1950 Correll, Donovan Stewart: Section Tuberarium of the genus Solanum of North America and Central America (Agriculture monograph). USDA, 1952 Ames, Oakes & Correll, Donovan Stewart: Orchids of Guatemala. 2 Vol. Chicago Natural History Museum. 1952-53. Fieldiana: Botany Vol 26, Nos. 1&2 Correll, Donovan Stewart: Vanilla: Its botany, history, cultivation and economic import. Soc. for Economic Botany. 1953 Correll, Donovan Stewart: Ferns & Fern Allies of Texas. Texas Research Foundation, 1956 Correll, Donovan Stewart: Flora of Peru (Botanical series). Field Museum of Natural History 1967 Correll, Donovan Stewart & Johnston, Marshall Conring: Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas. 1970 Correll, Donovan Stewart & Correll, Helen B.: Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southwestern United States. Stanford University Press 1975 Correll, Donovan Stewart: Native Orchids of North America North of Mexico. Univ Microfilms Intl. 1978, Correll, Donovan Stewart: Alaska Highway Adventure. 1981 Correll, Donovan Stewart: Potato & Its Wild Relatives: Section Tuberarium of the Genus Solanum. Lubrecht & Cramer Ltd, 1982, Correll, Donovan Stewart: Notes from a singing plant explorer. 1983 Ames, Oakes & Correll, Donovan Stewart: Orchids of Guatemala and Belize. Courier Dover Publications, 1985