Gloria Amparo Galeano Garcés (April 22, 1958 – March 23, 2016)^[1] was a Colombianbotanist andagronomist specializing in thepalm family. Galeano was a faculty member at theNational University of Colombia, and was the director of the Institute of Natural Sciences from 2003 to 2006. She received herPh.D. from theUniversity of Aarhus,Denmark in 1997.^[2]

Galeano authoredtaxonomic descriptions of 58 species, subspecies and varieties of plants, especially in thepalm family.^[3] She published 17 books, 68 scientific papers, and 15 book chapters, mostly on palm and its taxonomy,systematics,ecology, uses, traditional knowledge, ecology, conservation and harvest impacts of Colombian plants and Neotropical palms.^[4] She also co-authored a field guide to the palms of theAmericas.^[5]

In 1996 she won the science prize from Fundación Alejandro Angel Escobar for theField guide to American palms (co-authored byAndrew Henderson &Rodrigo Bernal).^[6]

The palm speciesGeonomagaleanoae is named after her.^[7]

• Aiphanes acaulisGaleano & R.Bernal – Principes 29(1): 20. 1985^[9]
• Aiphanes graminifoliaGaleano & R.Bernal – Caldasia 24(2): 277 (-280; fig. 1). 2002^[10]
• Astrocaryum triandrumGaleano, R.Bernal & F.Kahn – Candollea 43(1): 279 (1988)^[11]
• Bactris rostrataGaleano & R.Bernal – Caldasia 24(2): 280 (-283; fig. 2). 2002^[12]
• Ceroxylon amazonicumGaleano – Caldasia 17: 398 fig. 1995^[13]
• Ceroxylon echinulatumGaleano – Caldasia 17: 399-402 fig. 1995^[14]
• Ceroxylon parvumGaleano – Caldasia 17: 403 1995^[15]
• Ceroxylon peruvianumGaleano, Sanín & K.Mejia – Revista Peru. Biol. 15(Supl. 1): 65 (-67; figs. 1-3). 2008^[16]
• Ceroxylon sasaimaeGaleano – Caldasia 17: 404-405 fig. 1995^[17]
• Chamaedorea murriensisGaleano – Principes 31: 143 1987^[18]
• Chamaedorea ricardoiR.Bernal, Galeano & Hodel – Palms 48(1): 27 (-29; fig. 1). 2004^[19]
• Geonoma chlamydostachysGaleano-Garcés – Principes 30: 71 1986^[20]
• Geonoma santanderensisGaleano & R.Bernal – Caldasia 24(2): 282 (-284; fig. 3). 2002^[21]
• Geonoma wilsoniiGaleano & R.Bernal – Caldasia 24(2):284 (-290; figs. 4-5). 2002^[22]
• Oenocarpus makeruR.Bernal, Galeano & A.J.Hend. – Brittonia 43(3): 158 (1991)^[23]
• Oenocarpus simplexR.Bernal, Galeano & A.J.Hend. – Brittonia 43(3): 154 (1991)^[24]
• SabinariaR.Bernal & Galeano – Phytotaxa 144: 28. 2013^[25]
• Sabinaria magnificaGaleano & R.Bernal – Phytotaxa 144: 34^[25]
• Wettinia oxycarpaGaleano & R.Bernal – Caldasia 13(65): 695 (1983)^[26]

• Asplundia harlingianaGaleano & R.Bernal – Caldasia 14: 27 (-28). 1984^[27]
• Asplundia sanctae-ritaeGaleano & R.Bernal – Caldasia 14: 28 (-29). 1984^[28]
• Asplundia sarmentosaGaleano & R.Bernal – Caldasia 14: 29 (-30). 1984^[29]
• Dicranopygium fissileGaleano & R.Bernal – Caldasia 14: 31, figs. 1984^[30]
• Dicranopygium scoparumGaleano & R.Bernal – Caldasia 14: 32, figs. 1984^[31]

• Faculty web page at theNational University of Colombia.

• 1958 births
• 2016 deaths
• 20th-century Colombian botanists
• Colombian women botanists
• 20th-century Colombian women scientists
• 21st-century Colombian women scientists
• Colombian women biologists
• 21st-century Colombian botanists

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