A world authority on plants, Lamoureux was consultant to such agencies as the Hawai'i State Department of Business and Economic Development, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and the United Nations Development Programme. He wrote more than 50 scientific papers on botanical subjects and was a member of several professional and scientific societies. It's an especially great loss to us. Among the thousands of students Lamoureux taught through the years, several have become botanists. His more famous students, each of whom learned something about Hawaiian plants in his courses, include former Hawai'i superintendent of Education Herman Aizawa, Lt. Gov. Mazie Hirono and Hawaiian musician Sistah Robi Kahakalau.
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