Larry Leach (masanin shuke-shuke)

Leslie Charles “Larry” Leach  (18 Nuwamba 1909 Southend - 18 Yuli 1996 Pietersburg) ɗan asalin ƙasar Rhodesia ne kuma masani a fannin taxonomic botanist.

 Sana'a 
Leach ya isa Rhodesia a cikin shekarar 1938 kuma ya ci gaba da kasuwanci a Salisbury a matsayin injiniyan lantarki. Ya ci gaba da sha'awar tsire-tsire masu tsire-tsire, musamman Stapelieae, Euphorbieae da Aloe. Ya bar kasuwancin a cikin shekarar 1956 kuma ya sadaukar da kansa ga nazarin haraji na kai-da-kai na ƙungiyoyin uku tare da sha'awa ta musamman a yankin "Flora Zambesiaca". Ya tattara da yawa a Mozambique da Gabashin Afirka, da kuma Angola, Afirka ta Kudu maso Yamma da Afirka ta Kudu.

Tsakanin shekarun 1972 zuwa 1981, Leach ya yi aiki a matsayin Masanin Botanist na ma'aikatan Rhodesia's National Herbarium kuma ya bayyana kansa a matsayin 'watakila ma'aikacin gwamnati na Rhodesia ne kawai wanda ba ya biya'. Ya tilasta wa Aloe, Cactus da Succulent Society of Rhodesia don samar da jerin abubuwan haraji ga Excelsa. Sakamakon haka, juzu'i huɗu, gami da monographs na Stapelieae, Orbea, Stapelia, Huernia da Tridentea, Leach ne ya rubuta kuma aka buga tsakanin shekarun 1978 da 1988.

A cikin shekarar 1981, ya zauna a Afirka ta Kudu, yana aiki a gonar Botanic na Worcester daga shekarun 1982 zuwa 1989, kuma ya kammala aikinsa a kan Stapelieae na Kudancin Afirka, yana buga sakamakon a cikin Excelsa.

Daga shekarar 1990, ya yi aiki a matsayin Fellow Research Fellow a Sashen Botany a Jami'ar Arewa kusa da Pietersburg, inda, kafin mutuwarsa, ya yi aiki a kan succulent Euphorbieae for Flora Zambeziaca. 

An ba shi lambar yabo ta Harry Bolus Medal ta Botanical Society of Southern Africa a shekarar 1968, lambar zinare ta Ƙungiyar Kimiyya ta Rhodesia a shekarar 1977 kuma yana da zumunci na Cactus da Succulent Society of America a shekarar 1983. 

Ana tunawa da shi da takamaiman sunaye kamar Aloe leachii Reynolds, Huernia leachii Lavranos, Dombeya leachii Wild, Asalin jinsin Larryleachia da Choreocolacaceae genus Leachiella Plowes. Marubucin takaitaccen bayanin LCLeach ne ya bayyana wannan masanin ilimin botanist lokacin da yake ambaton sunan botanical. 

 Manazarta 

Rukuni:Mutuwan 1996
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1909