Paul Carpenter Standley

Paul Carpenter Standley (March 21, 1884 – June 2, 1963) was an American botanist known for his work on neotropical plants.

He was the assistant curator of the Division of Plants at the United States National Museum from 1909 to 1922.

[5] In the spring of 1928, he took a position at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, where worked until 1950.

published Standleyanthus, which is a genus of Central American plants in the boneset tribe within the sunflower family.

[9][10] Lastly in 1993, botanist Frank Almeda published Stanmarkia, which is a genus of flowering plants from Mexico and Guatemala, belonging to the family Melastomataceae.