. The Canadian field-naturalist. Natural history. 2002 Tribute to Greenwood 327. Edward W. Greenwood (left) with Mexican field colleague Octavio Suarez in Oaxaca, November 1980. Photograph by Ralph T. Holman. Botanic Gardens, Kew and the British Museum (Natural History) photocopying all available original literature on Mexican orchids and photographing type specimens. Thus equipped, the Greenwoods moved to Mexico when Ed retired in 1973. From their base in Oaxaca, Ed and Mary toured far into the surrounding countryside searching for orchids and intriguing habitats. They also hosted and guided
. The Canadian field-naturalist. Natural history. 2002 Tribute to Greenwood 327. Edward W. Greenwood (left) with Mexican field colleague Octavio Suarez in Oaxaca, November 1980. Photograph by Ralph T. Holman. Botanic Gardens, Kew and the British Museum (Natural History) photocopying all available original literature on Mexican orchids and photographing type specimens. Thus equipped, the Greenwoods moved to Mexico when Ed retired in 1973. From their base in Oaxaca, Ed and Mary toured far into the surrounding countryside searching for orchids and intriguing habitats. They also hosted and guided many visiting scientists to areas of interest. Ed was an important contributer to the renaissance of Mexican orchidology begun by Eric Hagsater, who revived the Asociacion Mexicana de Orquideologia and its journal, Orquidea, as well as founding a herbarium (AMO). By 1979 Ed was involved in the journal as book review editor and, with Mary, as translator (to English) and unofficial assistant editor. The journal continued to evolve into a fully refereed, mainly taxonomic publication; Ed served as co-edi- tor for Volumes 8 to 16, from 1981 to 2002. Among Mexico's thousand or so orchid species, the terrestri- al orchids were the least studied and so Ed focussed his energies on these, especially the genus Govenia, but also the genus Malaxis and the subtribe Spiranthinae. In all, he described 10 new species and clarified the identities of several others. He wrote the account of Govenia for the Flora of North America and advised FNA editor George Argus on various aspects of tropical orchids. After 20 stimulating and successful years in Mexico, Ed and Mary were forced by declining health to return to Ottawa in 1993. There Ed continued to write and to keep in contact with his many friends and colleagues. His remaining papers, two of which are listed in the following Appendix, will be published posthumously. Ed's Mexican colleagues recognize him as the most influential person in contempor
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