{{Short description|American botanist (1911–1970)}} {{Infobox scientist |name =Charles Louis Gilly |image = |image_size =frameless |caption = |birth_date = 1911 |birth_place = Fairfield, Iowa |death_date = {{death date and age text|1970|1911}} |death_place = Traverse City, Michigan |residence = |citizenship = |ethnicity = |field = Botany |work_institutions = |alma_mater = Parsons College<br/>Columbia University<br/>Iowa State University<br/>Michigan State College |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = |author_abbrev_bot = Gilly }}
'''Charles Louis Gilly''' (1911–1970) was an American botanist who was an expert in the flora of Central and South America. He, alongside Wendell Holmes Camp, coined the term biosystematics.<ref name=jstor>{{cite web |title=Gilly, Charles Louis (1911-1970) on JSTOR |url=https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000002970 |website=plants.jstor.org}}</ref>
Gilly was born in Fairfield, Iowa. While employed at Iowa State University, he collected botanical specimens in Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. He also studied the taxonomy of teosinte. His collections in Mexico were considerable,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gonzalez Elizondo |first1=Martha |last2=Gonzalez Elizondo |first2=Socorro |last3=Herrera Arrieta |first3=Yolanda |title=Listados Floristicos De Mexico IX. Flora De Durango |url=http://biblio68.ibiologia.unam.mx/FullText/lfl9.html |publisher=Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090206051701/http://biblio68.ibiologia.unam.mx/FullText/lfl9.html |archive-date=6 February 2009 |location=Mexico |date=1991}}</ref> and he often collected with {{ill|Efraím Hernández Xolocotzi|es}}.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hernández-Xolocotzi |first1=Efraim |title=Exploracion Etnobotanica Y Su Metodologia Hernandez |date=1971 |publisher=Colegio de Postgraduados, Escuela Nacional de Agricultura}}</ref> After achieving his doctorate, he worked as professor and herbarium curator at Michigan State College until 1954. In 1970, he died in Traverse City, Michigan.<ref name=jstor/>
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