Cirilo Nelson (30 July 1938 – 26 December 2020)[1] was a Honduran botanist and researcher at the Department of Biology of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras.[2] In 1965, he earned his master's degree at the University of Colorado. In the mid 1980s, he collected plants with the likes of David Ruiz and Sandra Gomez in the Swan Islands.[3] He is particularly renowned for his catalogue of Honduran plants, around 10,127 described species, believed to be representative of about 60 percent of what exists.[4]
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