# Carl Epling

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{{Short description|American botanist and taxonomist (1894–1968)}}
'''Carl Clawson Epling''' (15 April 1894 – 17 November 1968) was an American [botanist](/source/botanist) and [taxonomist](/source/taxonomist). Epling is best known for being the major authority on the [Lamiaceae](/source/Lamiaceae) (mint family) of the Americas from the 1920s to the 1960s. In his later years he also developed an interest in [genetics](/source/genetics).<ref name=cdlib>[http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb629006wb&chunk.id=div00014  University of California: In Memoriam − Carl Clawson Epling, Botany: UC Los Angeles]; December 1970.</ref>

==History==
Epling obtained his B.A. from the College of Agriculture at [University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley) in 1921. He received his M.A. in 1923 and Ph.D. in 1924 from [Washington University in St. Louis](/source/Washington_University_in_St._Louis), with a dissertation on the genus ''[Monardella](/source/Monardella)''.

Epling's first academic position was as an instructor in botany at [Oregon State College](/source/Oregon_State_College) in 1921–22. He became staff member at the [University of California, Los Angeles](/source/University_of_California%2C_Los_Angeles) in 1924.<ref name=cdlib/> In 1941, he was made a faculty research lecturer at UCLA.<ref name=cdlib/> He was honored by UCLA with an honorary doctor of laws degree in 1963.<ref name=cdlib/>  He retired from UCLA in 1965.<ref name=cdlib/>

From 1944 until his retirement, he held the title of systematist in the [University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources](/source/University_of_California_Division_of_Agriculture_and_Natural_Resources) [Agricultural Experiment Station](/source/Agricultural_experiment_station).

He was also a researcher in [population genetics](/source/population_genetics). At the time of his death he was studying the [flora](/source/flora) of [Ecuador](/source/Ecuador)ian rain forests. Carl Clawson Epling died in Santa Monica, in 1968.

===Works===
Epling published more than one hundred scientific works ranging from monographs to contributions to local floras, and described numerous [genera](/source/genus) and [species](/source/species) new to science—including the well known psychoactive ''[Salvia divinorum](/source/Salvia_divinorum)''.

===Citation===
{{botanist|Epling|Epling, Carl Clawson}}

===Honours===
In 2012,<ref>{{cite web |title=''Eplingiella'' Harley & J.F.B.Pastore {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77120873-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=26 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref> the genus name of ''[Eplingiella](/source/Eplingiella)'' was named in his honour.<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 | s2cid=187926901 |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref>

===Personal===
Epling was born in [Waverly, Illinois](/source/Waverly%2C_Illinois), son of Allen Judson Epling and Inez S. Epling. He was married to Ruth Persons Epling; they had two children.

==See also==
*{{C|20th-century American botanists}}
*{{C|American taxonomists}}

== References ==
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*[Mathias, M.E.](/source/Mildred_Esther_Mathias) (1970). Carl Clawson Epling (1894–1968). Taxon 19: 88–92.
* [http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/chronob/EPLI1894.htm WKU.edu: Carl Epling - Chrono-Biographical Sketches]

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