{{Short description|American botanist (1890–1983)}} '''Hamilton Paul Traub''' (June 18, 1890 – July 14, 1983) was an American botanist. He specialized in the study of Amaryllidaceae.<ref>[http://asaweb.huh.harvard.edu:8080/databases/botanists?id=100837 Harvard Index of Botanists]</ref> He also did horticultural studies on beans.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080510115144/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849400,00.html "Sick Beans and Healthy People"]. ''Time''. July 14, 1941.</ref> Dr Traub was one of the founding members of the American Amaryllis Society (now the International Bulb Society) in 1933, and for a long time the editor of its annual publication, variously called ''Year Book, American Amaryllis Society'', ''Herbertia'' and ''Plant Life: Amaryllis Year Book''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bulbsociety.org/aboutibs.html |title=International Bulb Society. Our History |access-date=2015-05-16 |archive-date=2017-03-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170327214227/http://www.bulbsociety.org/aboutibs.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
== Systematic treatment of Amaryllidaceae == ;Subfamilies (4) # Allioideae 4 tribes # Hemerocalloideae 1 tribe: Hemerocalleae # Ixiolirioideae 2 tribes # Amarylloideae (2 infrafamilies: Amarylloidinae 12 tribes, Pancratioidinae 4 tribes)
== Selected publications ==
* {{Cite book |last=Traub |first=H.P. |year=1958 |title=The Amaryllis Manual |publication-place=New York |publisher=Macmillan |url=http://bulbnrose.x10.mx/Amaryllis/Traub/traub.htm |access-date=2013-11-30 |archive-date=2015-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150519004542/http://bulbnrose.x10.mx/Amaryllis/Traub/traub.htm |url-status=dead }} * {{cite book|last1=Traub|first1=H.P.|authorlink=Hamilton Traub|title=Genera of the Amaryllidaceae|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006929270;view=1up;seq=3|date=1963|publisher=American Plant Life Society|location=La Jolla, California}} * {{cite journal|last1=Traub|first1=H. P.|authorlink=Hamilton Traub|title=Review of the genus ''Nerine'' Herb.|journal=Plant Life|date=1967|volume=3|pages=3–32}} * {{cite journal|last1=Traub|first1=Hamilton P|authorlink=hamilton Traub|title= The subgenera, sections and subsections of ''Allium'' L.|journal=Plant Life|date=1968|volume=24|pages=147–163}} * ''An introduction to Herbert's Amaryllidaceae, etc. 1837: And related works''. 1970. Ed. Cramer. 93 pp. * {{cite journal |last=Traub |first=H.P. |year=1980 |title=The Subgenera of the Genus ''Amaryllis'' |journal=Plant Life |volume=36 |pages=43–45 }} * Traub, H. P. (1982). Order Alliales. Pl. Life 38: 119–132.
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== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Hamilton Paul Traub}}
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