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Originally described by the British botanist Aylmer Lambert, Abronia umbellata was collected in 1786 from Monterey, California by the gardner Jean Nicolas Collignon of the French La Pérouse expedition, which had stopped at the capitol of Alta California as part of a journey of scientific exploration spanning the Pacific Ocean.
Adalbert Geheeb (March 21, 1842 in Geisa - 13 September 1909 in Konigsfelden, Brugg, Aargau) was a German botanist specializing in mosses.
The genus of trees Paulownia was coined by a Dutch botanist named Siebold to honour Anna Pavlovna.
The type species, Astrocaryum aculeatum, was first described by German botanist Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer in 1818 based on a specimen from the Essequibo River in Guyana.
Benjamin Smith Barton (1766–1815), American botanist, naturalist, and physician
Elisa Caroline Bommer (1832–1910), Belgian botanist specialising in mycology
Carl David Bouché (1809-1881), German botanist and gardener, nephew of Peter Friedrich
lindleyana was collected and introduced to western cultivation in 1843 by Robert Fortune, who named it for the botanist John Lindley.
She is also represented in several of the popular papers and books by Danish-Canadian botanist Erling Porsild, including Edible plants of the Arctic (1953), Illustrated Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (1957), and Rocky Mountain wild flowers (1974).
The French botanist Auguste Chevalier experimented with the planting of certain pine species in the vicinity of Dalaba in the early 1900s.
Acting on the authority of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Frederick Vernon Coville Botanist of the USDA and Daniel T. McDougal of the New York Botanical Garden chose Tumamoc Hill as the location of the Desert Laboratory in February, 1903.
Edward Lee Greene, Ph.D., (August 10, 1843 – November 10, 1915) was an American botanist known for his numerous publications including the two-part Landmarks of Botanical History and the naming or redescribing of over 4,400 species of plants in the American West.
Edwin Percy Phillips (18 February 1884 Sea Point, Cape Town - 12 April 1967 Cape Town), was a South African botanist and taxonomist, noted for his monumental work The Genera of South African Flowering Plants first published in 1926.
Ernest Henry Wilson (1876–1930), English botanist, best known as E. H. Wilson
Employed as a surgeon with the merchant navy, from 1855 to 1857, he collected plants in Tahiti with gardener-botanist Jean Armand Isidore Pancher.
Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe (July 5, 1795 – November 23, 1880) was a German pharmacist, botanist and bryologist who was a native of Fürstenberg.
In March 1849, on the death of George Gardner, Thwaites was appointed superintendent of the botanical gardens at Peradeniya, Ceylon.
June 23, 1932, in Tbilisi, Georgia) ia a notable Georgian botanist, one of the founders of Plant Embryology in Georgia, Academician of the Abkhazian Regional Academy of Sciences (1997), Doctor of Biological Sciences (1974), Professor (1991).
Gustav Hegi (13 November 1876 in Rickenbach, Canton of Zürich - 23 April 1932 in Goldbach, Canton of Zürich) was a Swiss botanist.
John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861), botanist, Sir John Henslow's grandson and Charles Darwin's mentor
ex Pampanini, discovered and collected by Walton at Gyangtse on the British Expedition to Tibet, was named for him by the Scottish botanist James Drummond, curator of the herbarium at the Calcutta Royal Botanic Gardens.
His father, Hugo Iltis, was a teacher at the Brno Gymnasium, a botanist and geneticist, and a vocal opponent of Nazi eugenics.
, standard abbreviation for the name of the botanist Nils Hylander
In 1930 Pole-Evans accompanied John Hutchinson and Jan Smuts on a two-month expedition through Southern and Northern Rhodesia to Nyasaland and Lake Tanganyika.
In 1937 Myers was appointed economic botanist to the government of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, his task being to survey the economic possibilities of the southernmost province of Equatoria with a view to its future agricultural development.
James Edgar Dandy (Preston, Lancashire, 24 September 1903 - Tring, 10 November 1976) was a British botanist, Keeper of Botany at the British Museum (Natural History) between 1956 and 1966.
In a monograph on Bohemian trilobites, Prodrom einer Monographie der böhmischen Trilobiten (1847), the Czech fossil collector Ignaz Hawle and botanist August Carl Joseph Corda established the genus Lejopyge using B. laevigatus as the type species.
Leon Camille Marius Croizat (July 16, 1894 - November 30, 1982) was a French-Italian scholar and botanist who developed a synthesis of evolution of biological form over space, in time, which he named Panbiogeography.
The type collection was made by physician and amateur botanist Noah Miller Glatfelter from St. Louis, Missouri.
William Lobb (1809–1864), a British botanist (brother of Thomas Lobb)
In turn Schinz was impressed by Rautanen and named the tree Ricinodendron rautanenii after him, while the German botanist and authority on Lythraceae, Bernhard Koehne, commemorated him in Nesaea rautanenii.
Founder and first President of the College of Idaho, Dr. Boone was a well-known botanist, and taught biology at the College.
The area is featured in the documentary The Mists of Mwanenguba with botanist Martin Cheek.
A keen amateur botanist, he later became interested in Mollusca and recorded the marine Mollusca collected during the Clare Island Survey.
Otto Degener (May 13, 1899 – January 16, 1988) was a botanist and conservationist who specialized in identifying plants of the Hawaiian Islands.
Paul Carpenter Standley (1884 in Avalon, Missouri – June 2, 1963 Tegucigalpa, Honduras) was an American botanist.
The species is named after the Irish botanist A.F.G. Kerr (1877–1942), the first botanist to collect plants extensively in Thailand.
Ranunculus allenii was first described by American botanist Benjamin Lincoln Robinson in 1905, who noted collections in Quebec and Labrador, the first being by one John Alpheus Allen on 23rd July 1881 on Mount Albert in the Gaspé Peninsula.
In 1813 Robert was sent to school under John Valpy at Norwich, where John Lindley the botanist, and "Rajah" Sir James Brooke, were his fellow pupils.
Trimen was born the son of Richard and Mary Ann Esther Trimen and was the elder brother of Henry Trimen, botanist and director of the botanical gardens at Peradeniya, Ceylon.
After the war, Samuel married Hannah Emerson Willard in 1871 and had nine children (one of whom was William Willard Ashe, the noted botanist and associate of the United States Forest Service).
The epithet, poinsettii, is in honor of American physician, botanist, and statesman, Joel Roberts Poinsett.
Julius Hermann Schultes (1804–1840), Austrian botanist in Vienna; son of Josef August Schultes
A memorial to physician and botanist Dr. William Withering, who pioneered the medical use of digitalis (derived from the foxglove), is situated on the south wall of the Lady Chapel, and features carvings of foxgloves and Witheringia solanaceae, a plant named in his honour.
Stephen Blackmore CBE FRSE FIBiol FLS (born 30 July 1952) is a British botanist, Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh from 1999 until 30 December 2013; previous to this he was Keeper of Botany at the Natural History Museum in London 1990-1999.
The genus was named after the Scottish-Canadian botanist William Fraser Tolmie, while the species name refers to Archibald Menzies, the Scottish naturalist for the Vancouver Expedition (1791–1795).
The tree is named for Matthias de L'obel, the Flemish botanist also commemorated by the genus Lobelia.
The authors placed the new species into Peter Taylor's section Psyllosperma, which has subsequently been merged with section Foliosa based on molecular phylogenetics.
William Andrew Archer (1894–1973), U.S. economic botanist and plant collector
Ferdinand Paul Wirtgen (1848–1924), German pharmacist and botanist; son of Philipp Wilhelm Wirtgen