Leslie A. Garay

Leslie Andrew Garay (August 6, 1924 – August 19, 2016), born Garay László András, was an American botanist. He was the curator of the Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium at Harvard University, where he succeeded Charles Schweinfurth in 1958. In 1957 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Life and work Garay was born in Hungary, and after the Second World War he emigrated first to Canada and then to the United States. He was a taxonomist and collector of orchids, particularly interested in the orchids of tropical America and Southeast Asia.

His ideas were influential in orchid taxonomy, and he reorganized several genera, including Oncidium. (Orchidaceae) Garaya Szlach. (Orchidaceae) Lesliea Seidenf.

Species (Orchidaceae) Apatostelis garayi Dunst. (Orchidaceae) Ascocentrum garayi Christenson, 1992 (Orchidaceae) Brassia garayana M.W.Chase (Orchidaceae) Cranichis garayana Dodson & R.Vásquez (Orchidaceae) Dendrobium garayanum A.D.Hawkes & A.H.Heller (Orchidaceae) Diaphananthe garayana Szlach. & Olszewski (Orchidaceae) Epidendrum garayi Lojtnant (Orchidaceae) Gongora garayana R.Rice (Orchidaceae) Habenaria garayana Szlach. & Olszewski (Orchidaceae) Lepanthes garayi T.Hashim. (Orchidaceae) Maxillaria garayi D.E.Benn. & Christenson (Orchidaceae) Otoglossum garayanum Szlach. & Kolan. (Orchidaceae) Pabstiella garayi (Pabst) Luer (Orchidaceae) Schiedeella garayana R.González (Orchidaceae) Schlimia garayana H.R.Sweet (Orchidaceae) Stelis garayi (Dunst.) Carnevali & I.Ramírez (Orchidaceae) Stigmatosema garayanum Szlach. (Orchidaceae) Sutrina garayi Senghas