Cneoridium_dumosum_(Nuttall)_Hooker_F._Collected_March_26,_1960,_at_an_Elevation_of_about_1450_Meters_on_Cerro_Quemazón,_15_Miles_South_of_Bahía_de_Los_Angeles,_Baja_California,_México,_Apparently_for_a_Southeastward_Range_Extension_of_Some_140_Miles

<i>Cneoridium dumosum</i> (Nuttall) Hooker F. Collected March 26, 1960, at an Elevation of about 1450 Meters on Cerro Quemazón, 15 Miles South of Bahía de Los Angeles, Baja California, México, Apparently for a Southeastward Range Extension of Some 140 Miles

Cneoridium dumosum (Nuttall) Hooker F. Collected March 26, 1960, at an Elevation of about 1450 Meters on Cerro Quemazón, 15 Miles South of Bahía de Los Angeles, Baja California, México, Apparently for a Southeastward Range Extension of Some 140 Miles

1962 five-word scholarly article

"Cneoridium dumosum (Nuttall) Hooker F. Collected March 26, 1960, at an Elevation of about 1450 Meters on Cerro Quemazón, 15 Miles South of Bahía de Los Angeles, Baja California, México, Apparently for a Southeastward Range Extension of Some 140 Miles" is a humorous,[1] yet factual,[2] scientific paper by American botanist Reid Moran of the San Diego Natural History Museum.[3]

Quick Facts
The range of the plant is shown in green. The extension reported in the paper is the isolated blob in the south.

Contents

The paper is about the plant species Cneoridium dumosum.[4]

Bookended by its lengthy, pangrammatic title, containing all of Moran's key points, and its copious acknowledgements,[5] the full text of the article body is:[5][4]

I got it there then (8068).

comprising just five words, the parenthetical reference number of the specimen collected, and a period.[5]

Moran's closing acknowledgement:[4]

Last but not least, I cannot fail to mention my deep indebtedness to my parents, without whose early cooperation this work would never have been possible.

was also used by biologist George Yatskievych, duly cited, in 1982.[6]

In an obituary to Moran, published by The San Diego Union-Tribune, fellow botanist Tom Oberbauer noted that Moran "had a dry sense of humor".[3]

Publishing

The paper was published in 1962 in volume 16, page 272, of the California Botanical Society's journal Madroño.[5][4] The entire paper was republished under the heading "Reprinted Classic Madroño Articles" in Madroño, volume 60, p. 359 in 2013,[7] the California Botanical Society's centennial year.[8]

The paper is not the shortest ever published. John H. Conway and Alexander Soifer's 2003 paper "Can n2+ 1 unit equilateral triangles cover an equilateral triangle of side > n, say n + ε?" contains just two words, "n2+2 can", followed by two figures.[9] Even shorter is “Chemiefreie Haushaltsprodukte” (German for "chemical-free household products"), which purports to be a list of all "truly" chemical-free products and has zero words beyond the abstract.[10]

References

  1. [1]
    Samyn, Yves. "How to write a taxonomic paper". studylib.net. Archived from the original on 14 September 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
  2. [2]
    Pincelli, Renato (23 May 2013). "Em Síntese..." hypercubic (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on 15 September 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
  3. [3]
    "Dr. Reid Venable Moran obituary". The San Diego Union-Tribune. February 2010. Archived from the original on 2019-09-15. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  4. [4]
    Moran, Reid (1962). "Cneoridium dumosum (Nuttall) Hooker F. Collected March 26, 1960, at an Elevation of about 1450 Meters on Cerro Quemazón, 15 Miles South of Bahía de Los Angeles, Baja California, México, Apparently for a Southeastward Range Extension of Some 140 Miles". Madroño. 16 (8). California Botanical Society: 272. Archived from the original on June 13, 2020. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
  5. [5]
    Jackson, Morgan D. (10 July 2013). ""I got it there then" – Reid Moran, 1962". Madroño. 16: 272. Archived from the original on 14 September 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
  6. [6]
    Yatskievych, George Alfred (1982). A Taxonomic Study of the Lennoaceae (Thesis). University of Arizona. hdl:10150/274684.
  7. [7]
    Moran, Reid (2013). "Reprinted Classic Madroño Articles: Cneoridium dumosum (Nuttall) Hooker F. Collected March 26, 1960, at an Elevation of about 1450 Meters on Cerro Quemazón, 15 Miles South of Bahía de Los Angeles, Baja California, México, Apparently for a Southeastward Range Extension of Some 140 Miles". Madroño. 60 (4). California Botanical Society.: 359. doi:10.3120/0024-9637-60.4.359. S2CID 85111189. Archived from the original on June 26, 2020. Retrieved September 14, 2019.
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    Parker, V. Thomas (2013). "President's report for volume 60". Madroño. 60 (4). California Botanical Society: 360–361. doi:10.3120/0024-9637-60.4.360. S2CID 91869111. Archived from the original on 2020-06-26. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
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    Washietl, Stefan (17 June 2016). "The Shortest Papers Ever Published". Archived from the original on 30 September 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
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    Goldberg, Alexander F. G.; Roth, Klaus; Chemjobber, C. J. (4 April 2016). "Chemiefreie Haushaltsprodukte". Chemie in unserer Zeit. 50 (2): 144–145. doi:10.1002/ciuz.201600750.
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