Ralph Curtiss Benedict (1883-1965) fue un botánico y pteridólogo estadounidense.
Desarrolló gran parte de su actividad científica en el Jardín Botánico de Brooklyn.
Algunas publicaciones 1907. The genus Antrophyum. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden 1909. The genus Ceratopteris: a preliminary revision. Contributions from New York Botanical Garden 126 1910. A peculiar habitat for Camptosorus. Torreya. Torrey Botanical Club 1914. A revision of the genus Vittaria J.E. Smith. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden 1922. Game laws for ferns and wild flowers. Brooklyn Botanic Garden & American Fern Society 1923a. Wild plant conservation in Connecticut, a suburban state. Brooklyn Botanic Garden leaflets. Ed. Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 4 pp. 1923b. New bud sports in Nephrolepis. Contributions, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn Botanic Garden 1924. Variation among the sporelings of a fertile sport of the Boston fern. Contributions, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn Botanic Garden 1941. Life science based on high school biology. Ed. The Macmillan Co. 1943. Problems and objectives in the study of fern hybrids. Contributions, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Libros 1909. Underwood, LM, RC Benedict, WR Maxon. North American Flora Volume 16, Part 1: Ophioglossaceae, Marattiaceae, Osmundaceae, Ceratopteridaceae, Schizeaceae, Gleicheniaceae, and Cyatheaceae (pars). Impresión original: 1909. 88 pp. Reimpreso: New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York. 1963. 88 pp. 1922. The origin of new varieties of Nephrolepis by orthogenetic saltation. Contributions, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn Botanic Garden 1938. High school biology. Ed. The Macmillan Co. 724 pp.
Referencias Brummitt, RK; CE Powell. 1992. Authors of Plant Names''. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-085-4
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