A

• Robert Stephen Adamson (1885–1965) S ........ Adamson
• Adam Afzelius
  Adam Afzelius
  Adam Afzelius was a Swedish botanist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Afzelius was born at Larv in Västergötland in 1750. He was appointed teacher of oriental languages at Uppsala University in 1777, and in 1785 demonstrator of botany...
  
   (1750–1837) M,P,S ........ Afzel.
• William Aiton
  William Aiton
  William Aiton was a Scottish botanist.Aiton was born near Hamilton. Having been regularly trained to the profession of a gardener, he travelled to London in 1754, and became assistant to Philip Miller, then superintendent of the Chelsea Physic Garden...
  
   (1731–1793) P,S ........ Aiton
• Ove Almborn (1914-) M ........ Almb.
• Arthur Hugh Garfit Alston
  Arthur Hugh Garfit Alston
  Arthur Hugh Garfit Alston was an English botanist. His father was a vicar and amateur naturalist who first got him interested in the field. A.H.G. Alston later received his B.A. from the University of Oxford...
  
   (1902–1958) P,S ........ Alston
• John Graham Anderson (1926–1970) S ........ J.G.Anderson
• Thomas Anderson
  Thomas Anderson (botanist)
  Thomas Anderson , was a Scottish botanist.Anderson was born in Edinburgh 26 February 1832, and was educated for the medical profession, graduating as M.D. at Edinburgh University in 1853...
  
   (1832–1870) S ........ T.Anderson
• William Anderson
  William Anderson (naturalist)
  William Anderson was a Scottish naturalist, one of seven children of schoolmaster Robert Anderson and Jean...
  
   (1750–1778) S ........ W.Anderson
• Nils Johan Andersson
  Nils Johan Andersson
  Nils Johan Andersson , was a Swedish botanist and traveller. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation N.J.Andersson when citing a botanical name....
  
   (1821–1880) P,S ........ N.J.Andersson
• Eily Edith Agnes Archibald (1916-) S ........ Archibald
• R.E.M. Archibald (1940-) A ........ R.E.M.Archibald
• Edward Armitage
  Edward Armitage
  Edward Armitage was an English Victorian era painter whose work focussed on historical, classical and biblical subjects.-Family background:...
  
   (1822–1906) S ........ Arm.
• Trevor Henry Arnold (1947-) S ........ T.H.Arnold
• George Arnott Walker-Arnott
  George Arnott Walker-Arnott
  George Arnott Walker-Arnott was a Scottish botanist.He studied law in Edinburgh though later became a botanist, holding the position of Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow. He studied the botany of North America with Sir William Hooker and collaborated with Robert Wight in...
  
   (1799–1868) A,P,M,S ........ Arn.
• Edwin Ashby
  Edwin Ashby
  Edwin Ashby was an Adelaide based Australian property developer and a noted malacologist interested in chitons and ornithologist. He was a founding member of the South Australian Ornithological Association in 1899, and of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union in 1901 for which he served...
  
   (1861–1941) S ........ Ashby
• Andre Aubreville (1897–1982) S ........ Aubrév.

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• Franz Ewald Theodor Bachmann
  Franz Ewald Theodor Bachmann
  Franz Ewald Theodor Bachmann , was a medical practitioner and naturalist.Bachmann studied in Breslau with Adolf Engler and in Würzburg where he was awarded an M.D. in 1883. He arrived in the Cape on 4 July 1883 in the company of Friedrich Wilms and disembarked while Wilms carried on to Durban...
  
   (1850–1937) B,M ........ Bachm.
• James Backhouse
  James Backhouse
  James Backhouse was a botanist and missionary for the Quaker church in Australia.-Early life in England:Backhouse was the fourth child of James and Mary Backhouse a quaker business family of Darlington, County Durham, England. His father died when he was a child and his mother brought him up in a...
  
   (1794–1869) P,S ........ Backh.
• Himansu Baijnath (1943-) S ........ Baijnath
• Henri Ernest Baillon
  Henri Ernest Baillon
  Henri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. He was born in Calais on November 30, 1827 and died in Paris on July 19, 1895.Baillon spent his professional life as a professor of natural history, and he published numerous works on botany...
  
   (1827–1895) B,M,P,S ........ Baill.
• Hugh Arthur Baker (1896–1976) S ........ H.A.Baker
• Joseph Banks
  Joseph Banks
  Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, PRS was an English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. He took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage . Banks is credited with the introduction to the Western world of eucalyptus, acacia, mimosa and the genus named after him,...
  
   (1743–1820) S ........ Banks
• Arthur S. Barclay (1932-) S ........ A.S.Barclay
• Winsome Fanny Barker (1907-) S ........ W.F.Barker
• Thomas Theodore Barnard (1898–1983) A,S ........ Barnard
• John Barrow
  Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet
  Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, FRS, FRGS was an English statesman.-Career:He was born the son of Roger Barrow in the village of Dragley Beck, in the parish of Ulverston then in Lancashire, now in Cumbria...
  
   (1764–1848) S ........ Barrow
• Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling
  Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling
  Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling was a German botanist who was a native of Hanover.He studied natural sciences at the University of Göttingen, and in 1818 took a botanical journey through Hungary and Croatia. In 1822 he became a lecturer at Göttingen, where he later became a professor, and in 1837 was...
  
   (1798–1875) S ........ Bartl.
• Ferdinand Lukas Bauer (1760–1826) S ........ F.L.Bauer
• Martin Bruce Bayer (1935-) S ........ M.B.Bayer
• John Stanley Beard
  John Stanley Beard
  John Stanley Beard was a British-born forester and ecologist who resided in Australia. While working with the Forestry Division in Trinidad and Tobago during the 1940s, Beard developed a system of forest classification for Tropical America and described the forests of Trinidad, Tobago, and the...
  
   (1916-) S ........ Beard
• Odoardo Beccari
  Odoardo Beccari
  Odoardo Beccari was an Italian naturalist perhaps best known for discovering the titan arum, the plant with the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world, in Sumatra in 1878...
  
   (1843–1920) A,M,P,S ........ Becc.
• Thomas W.Naylor Beckett (1838–1906) B ........ Beckett
• Charles Paulus Belanger (1805–1881) B,M,P,S ........ Bél.
• Arthur Bennett
  Arthur Bennett
  Arthur Shepherd Bennett MBE, LSM was an engineer in the British Merchant Navy....
  
   (1843–1929) S ........ A.Benn.
• George Bentham
  George Bentham
  George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
  
   (1800–1884) M,P,S ........ Benth.
• Cornelius C. Berg (1934-) S ........ C.C.Berg
• Otto Karl (Carl) Berg (1815–1866) S ........ O.Berg
• Ernst Friedrich Berger (1814–1853) S ........ Berger
• Karl Heinrich Bergius
  Karl Heinrich Bergius
  Karl Heinrich Bergius , also known as Carl Heinrich Bergius, was a Prussian botanist, naturalist, cavalryman and pharmacist from Küstrin. He is notable for his natural history collecting in southern Africa....
  
   (1790–1818) S ........ K.Bergius
• Johann Jakob Bernhardi
  Johann Jakob Bernhardi
  Johann Jakob Bernhardi was a German doctor and botanist.This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Bernh. when citing a botanical name.-Biography:Johann J...
  
   (1774–1850) B,M,P,S ........ Bernh.
• Antonio Bertoloni
  Antonio Bertoloni
  Antonio Bertoloni was an Italian botanist who made extensive studies of Italian plants. He also collected notable samples of Central American flora.- References :...
  
   (1775–1869) A,B,M,P,S ........ Bertol.
• John William Bews (1884–1938) S ........ Bews
• Peter Johan Bladh (1746–1816) S ........ Bladh
• Ralph Anthony Blakelock
  Ralph Anthony Blakelock
  -External links:...
  
   (1915–1963) S ........ Blakelock
• Carl Magnus Blom (1737–1815) S ........ Blom
• Carl(Karl) Ludwig von Blume (1796–1862) B,M,P,S ........ Blume
• Pierre Edmond Boissier
  Pierre Edmond Boissier
  Pierre Edmond Boissier was a Swiss botanist, explorer and mathematician.He was the son of Jacques Boissier and Lucile Butini , daughter of Pierre Butini a well-known physician and naturalist from Geneva...
  
   (1810–1885) M,P,S ........ Boiss.
• Louis Hyacinthe Boivin (1808–1852) S ........ Boivin
• Carl (Karl) August Bolle (1821–1909) B,P,S ........ Bolle
• Frank Bolus
  Frank Bolus
  Frank Bolus played first-class cricket for Somerset in 10 matches in the 1893 and 1894 seasons. He was born at Wolverhampton and died at Coventry....
  
   (1870–1945) S ........ F.Bolus
• Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus
  Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus
  Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus née Kensit was a prodigious South African botanist.- References :...
  
   née Kensit (1877–1970) S ........ L.Bolus
• Harry Bolus
  Harry Bolus
  Harry Bolus was a South African botanist, botanical artist, businessman and philanthropist. He advanced botany in South Africa by establishing bursaries, founding the and bequeathing his library and a large part of his fortune to the South African College...
  
   (1834–1911) S ........ Bolus
• Joseph (Jean) Edouard Bommer (1829–1895) M,P,S ........ J.Bommer
• Pauline Bond (1917-) S ........ Bond
• Aime Jacques Alexandre Bonpland (1773–1858) A,P,S ........ Bonpl.
• Leonard Alfred Boodle (1865–1941) A,S ........ Boodle
• Jan Justus Bos (1939-) S ........ Bos
• Averil Maude Bottomley (1889-) M ........ Bottomley
• Charles Boucher (1944-) S ........ C.Boucher
• James Bowie
  James Bowie (botanist)
  -Life:Bowie was born in London, and entered the service of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1810. In 1814 he was appointed botanical collector to the gardens, with Allan Cunningham...
  
   (1789–1869) S ........ Bowie
• Cornelis Eliza Bertus Bremekamp (1888–1984) P,S ........ Bremek.
• John Patrick Micklethwait Brenan
  John Patrick Micklethwait Brenan
  John Patrick Micklethwait Brenan was a British botanist. He was born June 19, 1917 in Chislehurst and died September 26, 1985 at Kew. He is buried at St. Anne's Church, Kew....
  
   (1917–1985) P,S ........ Brenan
• Johann Christian Breutel (1788–1875) B,S ........ Breutel
• Lillian Louisa Britten (1886–1952) S ........ L.L.Britten
• Adolphe Theodore (de) Brongniart (1801–1876) A,B,F,M,P,S ........ Brongn.
• Nicholas Edward Brown (1849–1934) A,S ........ N.E.Br.
• Robert Brown
  Robert Brown (botanist)
  Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist and palaeobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope...
  
   (1773–1858) B,M,P,S ........ R.Br.
• Eileen Adelaide Bruce (1905–1955) S ........ E.A.Bruce
• Jean Guillaume Bruguiere
  Jean Guillaume Bruguière
  Jean Guillaume Bruguière was a French physician, zoologist and diplomat.Bruguière was born in Montpellier.He was a doctor, connected to the University of Montpellier. His was interested in invertebrates, mostly snails ....
  
   (1750–1798) S ........ Brug.
• Richard Kenneth Brummitt (1937-) S ........ Brummitt
• Josef Brunnthaler (1871–1914) A,B ........ Brunnth.
• Peter Vincent Bruyns (1957-) S ........ Bruyns
• John Buchanan
  John Buchanan
  John MacLennan Buchanan, PC, QC is a Canadian lawyer and former politician who served as the 20th Premier of Nova Scotia from 1978 to 1990 and as a member of the Senate of Canada from 1990 to 2006.-Early life:...
  
   (1819–1898) B,S ........ Buchanan
• Francis Buchanan-Hamilton
  Francis Buchanan-Hamilton
  Dr Francis Buchanan, later known as Francis Hamilton but often referred to as Francis Buchanan-Hamilton was a Scottish physician who made significant contributions as a geographer, zoologist, and botanist while living in India.The standard botanical author abbreviation Buch.-Ham. is applied to...
  
   (1762–1829) P,S ........ Buch.-Ham.
• Arthur Allman Bullock (1906–1980) S ........ Bullock
• Charles James Fox Bunbury (1809–1886) S ........ Bunbury
• William John Burchell
  William John Burchell
  William John Burchell was an English explorer, naturalist, traveller, artist and author. He was the son of Matthew Burchell, botanist and owner of Fulham Nursery, nine and a half acres of land adjacent to the gardens of Fulham Palace. Burchell served a botanical apprenticeship at Kew and was...
  
   (1781–1863) B,P,S ........ Burch.
• Johannes Burman
  Johannes Burman
  Johannes Burman , was a Dutch botanist and physician. Burman specialized in plants from Ceylon, Amboina and Cape Colony. The name Pelargonium was introduced by Johannes Burman....
  
   (1707–1779) P,S ........ Burm.
• (Maximilian) Karl Ewald Burret (1883–1964) S ........ Burret
• Brian Laurence Burtt
  Brian Laurence Burtt
  Brian Laurence Burtt , was an English botanist and taxonomist who is noted for his contributions to the family Gesneriaceae...
  
   (`Bill') (1913-) S ........ B.L.Burtt
• Joseph Burtt Davy
  Joseph Burtt Davy
  Joseph Burtt Davy Joseph Burtt Davy Joseph Burtt Davy (7 March 1870 Findern, Derbyshire - 20 August 1940 Birmingham, was a Quaker botanist and agrostologist. He was the first curator of the Forest Herbarium at the when it was founded in 1924. He attended school at Ilkley in West Yorkshire...
  
   (1870–1940) S ........ Burtt Davy

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• George Caley
  George Caley
  -Early life:Caley was born in Craven, Yorkshire, England, the son of a horse-dealer. He was educated at the Free Grammar School at Manchester for around four years and was then taken into his father's stables. Coming across a volume on farriery, he became interested in the herbs mentioned in...
  
   (1770–1829) S ........ Caley
• Jacques Cambessedes
  Jacques Cambessèdes
  Jacques Cambessèdes was a French botanist who was born in Montpellier.In March-June 1825, Cambessèdes performed investigations involving flora of the Balearic Islands...
  
   (1799–1863) B,S ........ Cambess.
• Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806–1893) S ........ A.DC.
• Anne Casimir Pyramus de Candolle (1836–1918) S ........ C.DC.
• Sherwin Carlquist
  Sherwin Carlquist
  Sherwin Carlquist is an American botanist and photographer. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1952 and a Ph.D. in botany in 1956, also at Berkeley. Carlquist did a postdoctoral study at Harvard University from 1955 to 1956. After his postdoctoral...
  
   (1930-) S ........ Carlquist
• Dugald Carmichael
  Dugald Carmichael
  Dugald Carmichael was a Scottish botanist and officer in the 72nd Highlanders. He is known as the "Father of Marine Botany". The plant genus Carmichaelia is named after him.He was a friend of Sir William Hooker.-References:...
  
   (1772–1827) A,M,P,S ........ Carmich.
• Cedric Errol Carr (1892–1936) S ........ Carr
• Francois Louis Nompar de Caumat de Laporte Castelnau (1810–1880) S ........ Castelnau
• Ludolf Karl Adelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838) A,B,P,S ........ Cham.
• Ernest Entwistle Cheesman (1898-) S ........ Cheesman
• Auguste Jean Baptiste Chevalier
  Auguste Jean Baptiste Chevalier
  Auguste Jean Baptiste Chevalier was a French botanist, taxonomist, and explorer of tropical Africa, especially of French colonial empire Africa and Côte d'Ivoire. He also explored and collected plants in South America and tropical Asia...
  
   (1873–1956) B,P,S ........ A.Chev.
• Emilio Chiovenda
  Emilio Chiovenda
  Emilio Chiovenda was an Italian botanist.He collected in Italy, Eritrea and Ethiopia, especially the he Ruwenzori Mountains, from 1893 to 1909....
  
   (1871–1941) A,B,P,S ........ Chiov.
• Lucy Katherine (Kathleen) Armitage Chippindall (1913-) S ........ Chippind.
• Bela Jeno Cholnoky (1899–1972) A ........ Cholnoky
• Hugh (Harold) Basil Christian (1871–1950) S ........ Christian
• Martha Isabella Claassen (1931-) A ........ Claassen
• Charles Baron Clarke
  Charles Baron Clarke
  Charles Baron Clarke was a British botanist.He was born at Andover, the eldest son of Turner Poulter Clarke. He was educated at King's College School, London, and at Trinity and Queens' Colleges, Cambridge....
  
   (1832–1906) P,S ........ C.B.Clarke
• Leslie Edward Wostall Codd
  Leslie Edward Wostall Codd
  Leslie Edward Wostall Codd , was a South African plant taxonomist.He attended the Natal University College where he obtained an M.Sc in 1928...
  
   (1908-) S ........ Codd
• Hester Coetzee (1945-) S ........ Coetzee
• Desmond Thorne Cole (1922-) S ........ D.T.Cole
• (John) William Colenso
  William Colenso
  William Colenso was a Cornish Christian missionary to New Zealand, and also a printer, botanist, explorer and politician.-Life:Born in Penzance, Cornwall, he was the cousin of John William Colenso, Bishop of Natal...
  
   (1811–1899) B,M,P,S ........ Colenso
• Robert Harold Compton
  Robert Harold Compton
  Robert Harold Compton was a South African botanist. The Compton Herbarium at Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, which he founded in Cape Town in 1939, was named in his honour.-Career:...
  
   (1886–1979) A,P,S ........ Compton
• Paul Conrath
  Paul Conrath
  General Paul Conrath was a German General der Fallschirmtruppe during World War II and a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.-Awards:* Iron Cross 2nd and 1st Class...
  
   (1861–1931) S ........ Conrath
• Francois Marie Louis Corbiere (1850–1941) B,S ........ Corb.
• Edred John Henry Corner (1906-) M,S ........ Corner
• Léon Camille Marius Croizat
  Léon Camille Marius Croizat
  Leon Camille Marius Croizat was a French-Italian scholar and botanist who developed a synthesis of evolution of biological form over space, in time, which he named Panbiogeography.-Life:...
  
   (1894–1982) S ........ Croizat

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• Rolf Dahlgren
  Rolf Dahlgren
  Rolf Martin Theodor Dahlgren was a Swedish-Danish botanist, professor at the University of Copenhagen from 1973 to his death....
  
   (1932–1987) S ........ R.Dahlgren
• Ivan Robert Dale (1904–1963) S ........ Dale
• William Dallimore
  William Dallimore
  William Dallimore was an English botanist who published a “Handbook of Coniferae” and who played an important role in the start and development of Bedgebury Pinetum.-Career:...
  
   (1871–1959) S ........ Dallim.
• William Dampier
  William Dampier
  William Dampier was an English buccaneer, sea captain, author and scientific observer...
  
   (1652–1715) L ........ Dampier
• Lynette Elizabeth Davidson (1916-) S ........ L.E.Davidson
• Jean Odon Debeaux (1826–1910) M,S ........ Debeaux
• Joseph Decaisne
  Joseph Decaisne
  Joseph Decaisne was a French botanist and agronomist.Although he was born in Brussels, Belgium, he exercised his activity exclusively in Paris...
  
   (1807–1882) A,P,S ........ Decne.
• Ellen Marion Delf (1883–1980) A ........ Delf
• Alire Raffeneau Delile
  Alire Raffeneau Delile
  Alire Raffeneau Delile was a French botanist.-Biography:He studied botany with Jean Lemonnier, and was in the Paris medical school in 1796.-Egypt:...
  
   (1778–1850) A,B,M,P,S ........ Delile
• Bernard M. Descoings (fl.
  Floruit
  Floruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...
  
   1967) S......................Desc.
• Rene Louiche Desfontaines
  René Louiche Desfontaines
  René Louiche Desfontaines was a French botanist.Desfontaines was born near Tremblay in Brittany. He attended the Collège de Rennes and in 1773 went to Paris to study medicine. His interest in botany originated from lectures at the Jardin des Plantes given by Louis Guillaume Lemonnier...
  
   (1750–1833) A,B,M,P,S ........ Desf.
• Miriam Phoebe de Vos
  Miriam Phoebe de Vos
  -External links:* from IPNI* from "calflora. net"* from "cliviasociety.org"...
  
   (1912-) S ........ M.P.de Vos
• Johannes Marthinus Jacob de Wet (1927-) S ........ de Wet
• Emile August(e) Joseph De Wildeman (1866–1947) M,P,S ........ De Wild.
• Bernard De Winter (1924-) S ........ De Winter
• Gordon Parker DeWolf (1927-) S ........ DeWolf
• Didrik Ferdinand Didrichsen (1814–1887) S ........ Didr.
• Friedrich Ludwig Emil Diels (1874–1945) B,P,S ........ Diels
• Moritz Kurt Dinter
  Kurt Dinter
  Moritz Kurt Dinter , was a German botanist and explorer in South West Africa.- Education and career :...
  
   (1868–1945) S ........ Dinter
• Barend Jacobus Dippenaar (1902-) M ........ Dippen.
• Ethel Mary Doidge (1887–1965) M ........ Doidge
• David Don
  David Don
  David Don was a Scottish botanist,David Don was born on December 21, 1799, at Doo Hillock, Forfar, Angus, Scotland. He was the younger brother of George Don, also a botanist, their father being George Don of Forfar and his wife Caroline Clementina Stuart...
  
   (1799–1841) M,P,S ........ D.Don
• George Don
  George Don
  George Don was a Scottish botanist.George Don was born at Doo Hillock, Forfar, Angus, Scotland on 29 April 1797. His father, also named George Don, was Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 1802 and his mother was Caroline Clementina Stuart. George was the elder brother of David...
  
   (1798–1856) B,P,S ........ G.Don
• Emmanuel Drake del Castillo
  Emmanuel Drake del Castillo
  Emmanuel Drake del Castillo was a French botanist.He was born at Paris and studied with Louis Édouard Bureau at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle...
  
   (1855–1904) P,S ........ Drake
• Carl Friedrich (Charles Frederick) Drège (1791–1867) S ........ C.F.Drège
• Jean Francois (Johann Franz) Drège
  Johann Franz Drège
  Johann Franz Drège or or , commonly referred to by his standard botanical author abbreviation Drège, was a German horticulturalist, botanical collector and explorer of Huguenot descent.Drège received his first training in horticulture at...
  
   (1794–1881) A,B,S ........ Drège
• George Claridge Druce
  George Claridge Druce
  George Claridge Druce, MA, LLD, JP, FRS, FLS was an English botanist and a Mayor of Oxford.G. Claridge Druce was born at Potterspury on Watling Street in Northamptonshire. He was the illegitimate son of Jane Druce, born 1815 in Buckinghamshire.He went to school in the village of Yardley Gobion....
  
   (1850–1932) P,S ........ Druce
• Robert Bailey Drummond (1924-) S ........ R.B.Drumm.
• Denise van Druten (1930-) S ........ Druten
• Marcel Marie Maurice Dubard (1873–1914) S ........ Dubard
• Noëlle Dumaz-le-Grand (fl. 1953) S ........ Dumaz-le-Grand
• Richard Arnold Dümmer
  Richard Arnold Dümmer
  Richard Arnold Dümmer was a South African botanist who collected in South Africa, Kenya and Uganda.Dümmer worked in the Cape Town municipal gardens before joining Kew as a gardener in 1910. In 1911 he became assistant to Prof...
  
   (1887–1922) S ........ Dümmer
• Edward John Dunn
  Edward John Dunn
  Edward John Dunn was an Australian geologist, winner of the 1905 Murchison Medal.-Early life:Dunn was born at Bedminster near Bristol, England, the son of Edward Herbert Dunn and his wife Betsy, née Robinson. The family emigrated to New South Wales in 1849, initially living near Goulburn, New...
  
   (1844–1937) S ........ E.J.Dunn
• Stephen Troyte Dunn (1868–1938) P,S ........ Dunn
• Stephanus Johannes du Plessis (1908-) M ........ du Plessis
• Hein Johannes During (1947-) B ........ During
• Augusta Vera Duthie (1881–1963) B,P,S ........ A.V.Duthie
• Alexander Logie du Toit F ........ A.L.du Toit
• Petrus (Pierre) Cornelis Vermeulen Du Toit (1945-) S ........ Du Toit
• Robert Allen Dyer
  Robert Allen Dyer
  Robert Allen Dyer was a South African botanist and taxonomist, working particularly on Amaryllidaceae and succulent plants, contributing to and editing of Bothalia and Flowering Plants of Africa and holding the office of Director of the Botanical Research Institute in Pretoria from 1944 to...
  
   (1900–1987) S ........ R.A.Dyer
• William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
  Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer KCMG FRS FLS was a leading British botanist, and the third director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.- Life and career :Thiselton-Dyer was born in Westminster, London...
  
   (1843–1928) P,S ........ Dyer

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• Christian Friedrich (Frederik) Ecklon
  Christian Friedrich Ecklon
  Christian Friedrich Ecklon was a Danish botanical collector and apothecary.Ecklon collected extensively in South Africa. His first visit was in 1823, as first an apothecary's apprentice and then pharmacist, looking for plants with medicinal value...
  
   (1795–1868) S ........ Eckl.
• Albert Eicker (1935-) M ........ Eicker
• Joan Elffers (1928-) (=Mrs Munday) S ........ Elffers
• George Francis Scott-Elliot (1862–1934) S ........ G.Elliot
• Roger Pearson Ellis (1944-) S ........ R.P.Ellis
• Stephan Friedrich Ladislaus Endlicher (1804–1849) A,B,F,M,P,S ........ Endl.
• Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler (1844–1930) A,B,M,P,S ........ Engl.
• Johann Friedrich Gustav von Eschscholtz
  Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz
  Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz was a Livonian physician, botanist, zoologist and entomologist.Eschscholtz was born in Dorpat , Governorate of Livonia in the Russian Empire...
  
   (1793–1831) S ........ Eschsch.
• Elsie Elizabeth Esterhuysen
  Elsie Elizabeth Esterhuysen
  Elsie Elizabeth Esterhuysen was a South African botanistShe worked at the Bolus Herbarium, the oldest functioning herbarium in South Africa established in 1856, and was described as the most outstanding collector ever of South African flora, amassing 36,000 herbarium specimens.- References :...
  
   (1912-2006) S ........ Esterh.
• Maurice Smethurst Evans (1854–1920) S ........ M.S.Evans
• William Edgar Evans (1882–1963) S ........ W.E.Evans
• Arthur Wallis Exell (1901–1993) S ........ Exell

F

• Arthur Robert Fairall (1920–1970) S ........ Fairall
• David Fairchild
  David Fairchild
  David Grandison Fairchild was an American botanist and plant explorer. Fairchild was responsible for the introduction of more than 200,000 exotic plants and varieties of established crops into the United States, including soybeans, pistachios, mangos, nectarines, dates, bamboos, and flowering...
  
   (1869–1954) S ........ D.Fairchild
• Abilio Fernandes (1906-) S ........ A.Fern.
• Rosette Mercedes Saraiva Batarda Fernandes (1916-) P,S ........ R.Fern.
• Franciso Manoel Carlos de Mello de Ficalho (1837–1903) S ........ Ficalho
• Adriano Fiori (1865–1950) M,P,S ........ Fiori
• Helena Madelain Lamond Forbes (1900–1959) S ........ H.M.L.Forbes
• John Forbes
  John Forbes (botanist)
  John Forbes, M.D. was an English botanist.Forbes was born in 1799, and became a pupil of John Shepherd of the Liverpool botanic garden...
  
   (1798–1823) S ........ Forbes
• Peter Forsskål
  Peter Forsskål
  Peter Forsskål, sometimes spelled Pehr Forsskål, Peter Forskaol, Petrus Forskål or Pehr Forsskåhl, was a Swedish explorer, orientalist, naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.-Early life:...
  
   (1732–1763) A,P,S ......Forssk.
• Johann Reinhold Forster
  Johann Reinhold Forster
  Johann Reinhold Forster was a German Lutheran pastor and naturalist of partial Scottish descent who made contributions to the early ornithology of Europe and North America...
  
   (1729–1798) S ........ J.R.Forst.
• Henry Georges Fourcade (1865–1948) S ........ Fourc.
• Eugene Pierre Nicolas Fournier
  Eugène Pierre Nicolas Fournier
  Eugène Pierre Nicolas Fournier was a French botanist.He was particularly interested in ferns. He was a member of the Société Royale de Botanique de Belgique.-Works:* Articles in Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France:...
  
   (1834–1884) P,S ........ E.Fourn.
• Paul Victor Fournier (1877–1964) P,S ........ P.Fourn.
• Robert O. Fournier A ........ R.O.Fourn.
• Millicent ? Franks (=Mrs Flanders)(1886–1961) S ........ Franks
• Johannes Frenzel A ........ Frenzel
• Johann Baptist Georg (George) Wolfgang Fresenius
  Georg Fresenius
  Johann Baptist Georg Wolfgang Fresenius was a German physician and botanist, known for his work in the field of phycology. He was a native of Frankfurt am Main....
  
   (1808–1866) A,M,S ........ Fresen.
• Klas Robert Elias Fries
  Robert Elias Fries
  Robert Elias Fries , the youngest son of Thore M. Fries and grandson of Elias Magnus Friesand an expert on mushrooms...
  
   (1876–1966) M,P,S ........ R.E.Fr.
• Thore Christian Elias Fries
  Thore Christian Elias Fries
  Thore Christian Elias Fries was Professor of Systematic Botany at Lund University. He specialized in lichenology and plant geography. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation T.C.E.Fr. when citing a botanical name...
  
   (1886–1930) M,S ........ T.C.E.Fr.
• Ib Friis (1945-) S ........ Friis
• Felix Eugen Fritsch (1832–1893) A ........ F.E.Fritsch

G

• Ernest Edward Galpin
  Ernest Edward Galpin
  Ernest Edward Galpin Ernest Edward Galpin Ernest Edward Galpin (born Grahamstown December 6, 1858 - October 16, 1941 Mosdene, Transvaal, was a South African botanist and banker. He left some 16,000 sheets to the National Herbarium in Pretoria and was dubbed "the Prince of Collectors" by General...
  
   (1858–1941) S ........ Galpin
• Star Garabedjan (1895–1978) S ........ Garab.
• Christian August Friedrich Garcke
  Christian August Friedrich Garcke
  Christian August Friedrich Garcke was a German botanist who was a native of Bräunrode, Saxony-Anhalt.In 1865 he was appointed curator at the Royal Botanical Museum in Berlin, and in 1871 became an associate professor specializing in pharmacognosy...
  
   (1819–1904) S ........ Garcke
• Sidney Garside (1889–1961) B ........ Garside
• Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupre
  Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré
  Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré was a French botanist.He was born in Angoulême, the son of J-J. Gaudichaud and Rose Gaudichaud. He studied pharmacology at Cognac and Angoulême. He also studied chemistry and herbology.His greatest claim to fame was serving as botanist on a circumglobal expedition from...
  
   (1789–1854) A,B,M,P,S ........ Gaudich.
• Howard Scott Gentry
  Howard Scott Gentry
  Howard Scott Gentry was an American botanist recognized as the world's leading authority on the agaves.He worked for the United States Department of Agriculture, and was a research botanist with the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona after 1971...
  
   (1903-) S ........ Gentry
• Gerrit Germishuizen (1950-) S ........ Germish.
• William Tyrer Gerrard
  William Tyrer Gerrard
  William Tyrer Gerrard was an English botanical collector in Natal and Madagascar in the 1860s. The genus Gerrardanthus is named in his honor....
  
   ( -1866) P,S ........ Gerrard
• Jacob Gerstner (1888–1948) S ........ Gerstner
• Birenda Nath Ghose (1885–1983) S ........ Ghose
• Johan Wilhelm Heinrich Giess
  Johan Wilhelm Heinrich Giess
  Johan Wilhelm Heinrich Giess/Willi Giess is noted for having started an official herbarium at Windhoek, his extensive collection of Namibian plants and generally furthering botanical knowledge of the territory.Giess arrived in South West Africa with his parents on 4 February 1926 and was drawn...
  
   (1910-) S ........ Giess
• Malcolm Hutchison Giffen (1902-) A ........ Giffen
• Ernest Friedrich Gilg
  Ernest Friedrich Gilg
  Ernest Friedrich Gilg was a German botanist.- Life :Gilg was curator of the Botanical Museum in Berlin...
  
   (1867–1933) S ........ Gilg
• Jan Bevington Gillett (1911-) S ........ J.B.Gillett
• Margaret Clark Gillett (1878–1962) S ........ Gillett
• Hamish Boyd Gilliland (1911–1965) S ........ Gilliland
• Hugh Francis Glen (1950-) S ........ Glen
• Johann Friedrich Gmelin
  Johann Friedrich Gmelin
  Johann Friedrich Gmelin was a German naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist and malacologist.- Education :Johann Friedrich Gmelin was born as the eldest son of Philipp Friedrich Gmelin in 1748 in Tübingen...
  
   (1748–1804) A,B,M,P,S ........ J.F.Gmel.
• Wouter Adriaan Goddijn (1884–1960) P,S ........ Goddijn
• Karl Christian Traugott Friedemann Goebel (1794–1851) S ........ Goebel
• Peter Goldblatt (1943-) S ........ Goldblatt
• Antonie Petrus Gerhardus Goossens (1896–1972) S ........ Gooss.
• Kathleen Dixon Huntley Gordon-Gray (1918-) B,S ........ Gordon-Gray
• Gerhard Jacobus Marinus Anne Gorter (1913-) M ........ G.J.M.Gorter
• Constantine Goulimis
  Constantine Goulimis
  Constantine Goulimis , was a lawyer and successful amateur botanist. He discovered several species of Greek plants.- Education and career:...
  
   (1886–1963) S ........ Goulimis
• Hans Rudolph Jurke Grau (1937-) S ........ Grau
• Percy James Greenway (1897–1980) S ........ Greenway
• Leopold Hartley Grindon (1818–1904) S ........ Grindon
• B.H. Groenewald S ........ Groenew.
• Valery Ivanovich Grubov (1917-) P,S ........ Grubov
• Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemin
  Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemin
  Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemin was a French botanist.In 1812 he was apprenticed to a pharmacist in Dijon, and in 1814 moved to Geneva, where he studied with Jean Pierre Étienne Vaucher and Augustin Pyramus de Candolle...
  
   (1796–1842) A,P,S ........ Guill.
• Georg Julius Ernst Gurich (1859–1938) A,F ........ Gürich
• Robert Louis August Maximilian Gürke
  Robert Louis August Maximilian Gürke
  Robert Louis August Maximilian Gürke was a German botanist. He usually appears in the literature as Max Gürke.- Life :...
  
   (1854–1911) S ........ Gürke
• Francis Guthrie
  Francis Guthrie
  Francis Guthrie was a South African mathematician and botanist who first posed the Four Colour Problem in 1852. At the time, Guthrie was a student of Augustus De Morgan at University College London. He studied under John Lindley, Professor of Botany at the University of London. Guthrie obtained...
  
   (1831–1899) S ........ Guthrie
• Louise Guthrie (1879–1966) S ........ L.Guthrie

H

• Anthony Vincent Hall (1936-) S ........ A.V.Hall
• Harry Hall (1906–1986) S ........ Harry Hall
• Lisabel Irene Hall (née Booysen)(fl. 1984) S ........ L.I.Hall
• Ove Juel Hansen (1945-) S ........ O.J.Hansen
• Thomas Hardwicke
  Thomas Hardwicke
  Major-General Thomas Hardwicke was an English soldier and naturalist who was resident in India from 1777 to 1823. After returning to England he collaborated with John Edward Gray in the publication of Illustrations of Indian Zoology .At the age of 22, he joined the East India Company...
  
   (1757–1835) S ........ Hardw.
• David Spencer Hardy (1931-) S ........ D.S.Hardy
• Hermann August Theodor Harms (1870–1942) S ........ Harms
• Errol Rhodes Harrison (1925-) S ........ E.R.Harrison
• Heidrun Elsbeth Klara Osterwald Hartmann (1942-) S ........ H.E.K.Hartmann
• William Henry Harvey
  William Henry Harvey
  William Henry Harvey was an Irish botanist who specialised in algae.- Biography :William Henry Harvey was born at Summerville near Limerick, Ireland, in 1811, the youngest of 11 children. His father Joseph Massey Harvey, was a Quaker and prominent merchant...
  
   (1811–1866) A,B,M,S ........ Harv.
• Johan Coenraad van Hasselt
  Johan Coenraad van Hasselt
  Johan Coenraad van Hasselt was a Dutch physician, zoologist, botanist and mycologist.Coenraad van Hasselt studied medicine at the University of Groningen....
  
   (1797–1823) M,S ........ Hasselt
• Adrian Hardy Haworth
  Adrian Hardy Haworth
  Adrian Hardy Haworth was an English entomologist, botanist and carcinologist.He was the son of Benjamin Haworth of Haworth Hall...
  
   (1768–1833) S ........ Haw.
• Friedrich Gottlob Hayne (1763–1832) S ........ Hayne
• Hermann Heino Heine (1922-) P,S ........ Heine
• William Botting Hemsley (1843–1924) A,P,S ........ Hemsl.
• Mayda Doris Henderson (1928-) S ........ M.D.Hend.
• Murray Ross Henderson
  M R Henderson
  Murray Ross Henderson was a Scottish botanist who did most of his botanical work in the Straits Settlements and South Africa. He took a position as a botanist in Malaya in 1921 and became curator of the herbarium in the Singapore Botanical Gardens in 1924.On the invasion of British Malaya by Japan...
  
   (1899–1982) S ........ M.R.Hend.
• Esmee Franklin Hennessy (fl. 1986) S ........ Hennessy
• Charles Louis L'Heritier de Brutelle
  Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle
  Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle was an 18th century French botanist and magistrate. Born into an affluent upper-class Parisian family, connections with the French Royal Court secured him the position of Superindent of Parisian Waters and Forests at the age of twenty-six...
  
   (1746–1800) P,S ........ L'Hér.
• Paul Hermann
  Paul Hermann
  Paul Hermann was a German born physician and botanist who for 15 years was director of the Hortus Botanicus Leiden....
  
   (1646–1695) L ........ Herm.
• Adolar Gottlieb Julius (Hans) Herre (1895–1979) S ........ A.G.J.Herre
• Florence Ellen Hewitt (1910–1979) A ........ Hewitt
• William Philip Hiern
  William Philip Hiern
  William Philip Hiern was a British mathematician and botanist.Hiern attended St. John's College, Cambridge, from 1857 to 1861 and attained a "first class degree" in mathematics...
  
   (1839–1925) B,S ........ Hiern
• Olive Mary Hilliard
  Olive Mary Hilliard
  Olive Mary Hilliard is a noted South African botanist and taxonomist.Hilliard attended Natal University in the years 1943-47 where she obtained an MSc and later a PhD. She worked at the National Herbarium in Pretoria in 1947-48 and was a lecturer in botany at Natal University from 1954 to 1962...
  
   (née Hillary)(1926-) S ........ Hilliard
• Albert Spear Hitchcock (1865–1935) P,S ........ Hitchc.
• Benedict Pierre Georges Hochreutiner
  Bénédict Pierre Georges Hochreutiner
  Bénédict Pierre Georges Hochreutiner was a Swiss botanist and plant taxonomist.- References :...
  
   (1873–1959) S ........ Hochr.
• Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter
  Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter
  Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter was a German botanist and Protestant minister who was a native of Stuttgart. He was the father of geologist Ferdinand Hochstetter ....
  
   (1787–1860) A,M,P,S ........ Hochst.
• Christian Gottlob Ferdinand von Hochstetter (1829–1884) S ........ C.G.F.Hochst.
• Walter Hendricks Hodge (1912-) P,S ........ Hodge
• Kathe(Kaethe) Hoffmann (1883-c.1931) S ........ K.Hoffm.
• Karl August Otto Hoffmann
  Karl August Otto Hoffmann
  Karl August Otto Hoffmann was a German botanist and a high school teacher in Berlin. Author of Sertum plantarum madagascariensium, the genus Hoffmanniella in the Asteraceae family was named after him.-External links:...
  
   (1853–1909) S ........ O.Hoffm.
• Edward Morell Holmes (1843–1930) A,S ........ Holmes
• Ove Arbo Hoeg (1898-) A,F,M ........ Hoeg
• Joseph Dalton Hooker
  Joseph Dalton Hooker
  Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
  
   (1817–1911) A,B,M,P,S ........ Hook.f.
• William Jackson Hooker
  William Jackson Hooker
  Sir William Jackson Hooker, FRS was an English systematic botanist and organiser. He held the post of Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, and was the first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He enjoyed the friendship and support of Sir Joseph Banks for his exploring,...
  
   (1785–1865) A,B,M,P,S ........ Hook.
• A.J.Ward Hornby (1893-) A ........ Hornby
• David Hornby (fl. 1977) M ........ D.Hornby
• Claes(Claudius) Fredric Hornstedt (1758–1809) S ........ Hornst.
• Gottfried Eduard Huber-Pestalozzi (1877–1966) A ........ Hub.-Pest.
• Jean-Henri Humbert (1887–1967) P,S ........ Humbert
• John Hutchinson
  John Hutchinson (botanist)
  John Hutchinson, OBE, FRS was a renowned English botanist, taxonomist and author.-Life and career:...
  
   (1884–1972) S ........ Hutch.

I

• Hans-Dieter Ihlenfeldt (1932-) S ........ Ihlenf.
• Kathleen Leonore Immelman (1955-) S ........ Immelman
• Collingwood Ingram
  Collingwood Ingram
  Collingwood Ingram , ornithologist, plant collector and gardener, was an authority on Japanese flowering cherries and is still widely known as ‘Cherry’ Ingram.-Personal life:...
  
   (1880–1981) S ........ Ingram
• Edward George Irving
  Edward George Irving
  Dr Edward George Irving RN was a Scottish surgeon who served in the Royal Navy. He was also a collector of plants, and the plant family Irvingiaceae, and genus Irvingia are named for him.-Marriage and Family:...
  
   (1816–1855) S ........ Irving
• Frances Margaret (Leighton) Isaac (1909-) S ........ Isaac
• William Edwyn Isaac (1905-) A ........ W.E.Isaac

J

• William Jack
  William Jack (botanist)
  William Jack was a Scottish botanist.Jack was employed by the East India Company as a surgeon in India, where he also studied botany and corresponded extensively with Nathaniel Wallich. In 1818 he accompanied Stamford Raffles to Sumatra where he extensively documented the rich flora of that region...
  
   (1795–1822) S ........ Jack
• Marius Jacobs (1929–1983) S ........ M.Jacobs
• Niels Henning Gunther Jacobsen (1941-) P,S ........ N.Jacobsen
• Werner Bahne Georg Jacobsen (1909-) P,S ........ W.Jacobsen
• Amy Frances May Gordon Jacot Guillarmod (1911–1992) M,S ........ Jacot Guill.
• Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
  Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
  Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin or Baron Nikolaus von Jacquin. was a scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany....
  
   (1727–1817) A,B,M,P,S ........ Jacq.
• John Peter Jessop (1939-) P,S ........ Jessop
• Wouter Johannes Jooste (1933-) M ........ Jooste
• Adrien Henri Laurent de Jussieu (1797–1853) S ........ A.Juss.

K

• Cornelis Kalkman (1928–1998) S ........ Kalkman
• (Maria) Caroline Karsten (1902-) S ........ M.C.Karst.
• Ronald William John Keay (1920–1998) S ........ Keay
• Lars Erik Kers (1931-) M,S ........ Kers
• Pauline Kies (=Mrs Bohnen)(1918-) S ........ Kies
• Donald Joseph Boomer Killick (1926-) S ........ Killick
• John William Carnegie Kirk (1878–1962) S ........ J.W.C.Kirk
• Thomas Kirk (1828–1898) P,S ........ Kirk
• Friedrich Wilhelm Klatt
  Friedrich Wilhelm Klatt
  Friedrich Wilhelm Klatt 13 February 1825 Hamburg - 3 March 1897 Hamburg, was a German botanist who specialised in the study of African plants.As a child he showed artistic talent, but for financial reasons training and a career in art could not be followed. In 1854 he and his brother took over the...
  
   (1825–1897) A ........ Klatt
• Anthonia Kleinhoonte (1887-1960/1) S ........ Kleinhoonte
• Johann Friedrich Klotzsch
  Johann Friedrich Klotzsch
  Johann Friedrich Klotzsch was a German pharmacist and botanist.His principal work was in the field of mycology, with the study and description of many species of mushroom.-Selected works:...
  
   (1805–1860) M,P,S ........ Klotzsch
• Emil Friedrich Knoblauch (1864–1936) S ........ Knobl.
• Karl Heinrich Emil Koch
  Karl Koch (botanist)
  Karl Heinrich Emil Koch was a German botanist. He is best known for his botanical explorations in the Caucasus region, including northeast Turkey. Unfortunately, most of his collections have today been lost. He is also known as the first professional horticultural officer in...
  
   (1809–1879) P,S ........ K.Koch
• Johann Gerhard Konig
  Johann Gerhard König
  Johann Gerhard König was a Baltic German botanist and physician.He was born near Kreutzburg in Polish Livonia, which is now Krustpils in Latvia. He was a private pupil of Carolus Linnaeus in 1757, and lived in Denmark from 1759 to 1767. From 1773 to 1785, he worked as a naturalist for the Nawab of...
  
   (1728–1785) B,M,P,S ........ J.König
• Friedrich August Körnicke
  Friedrich August Körnicke
  Friedrich August Körnicke was a German agronomist and botanist born in Pratau . He was the father of agricultural botanist Max Koernicke ....
  
   (1828–1908) M,P,S ........ Körn.
• Karl Georg Theodor Kotschy
  Theodor Kotschy
  Karl Georg Theodor Kotschy was an Austrian botanist and explorer who was a native of Ustroń, in Austrian Silesia. He was the son of theologian Carl Friedrich Kotschy .-Biography:...
  
   (1813–1866) B,S ........ Kotschy
• Richard Krausel (1890–1966) A,B,F,M ........ Kräusel
• Christian Ferdinand Friedrich von Krauss (1812–1890) A,B,S ........ C.Krauss
• Johan Carl Krauss (1759–1826) S ........ Krauss
• (Georg) Ludwig Engelhard Krebs (1792–1844) S ........ Krebs
• Heinrich Kuhl
  Heinrich Kuhl
  Heinrich Kuhl was a German naturalist and zoologist.Kuhl was born in Hanau. He became assistant to Coenraad Jacob Temminck at the Leiden museum. In 1817 he published a monograph on bats and in 1819 he published Conspectus psittacorum...
  
   (1796–1821) M,S ........ Kuhl
• Otto Carl Ernst Kuntze (1843–1907) A,B,F,M,P,S ........ Kuntze
• Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz
  Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz
  Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz was a German botanist and garden director in Bogor, West Java and Kolkatta.He worked in India, Indonesia, Burma, Malaysia and Singapore. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Kurz when citing a botanical name.-References:...
  
   (1834–1878) P,S ........ Kurz

L

• Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardiere (1755–1834) A,M,P,S ........ Labill.
• Carl von Linnaeus (1707–1778) A,B,M,P,S ........ L.
• Herman Johannes Lam (1892–1977) B,P,S ........ H.J.Lam
• Jean Baptiste Antoine Pierre de Monnet de Lamarck (1744–1829) A,M,P,S ........ Lam.
• Joseph Lanjouw (1902–1984) S ........ Lanj.
• Elaine Margaret Laughton (née Young)(1898–1974) M ........ Laughton

M

• Peter MacOwan
  Peter MacOwan
  thumb|rightPeter MacOwan born Hull, England on 14 November 1830 - died Uitenhage, Cape Province 30 November 1909, was a British colonial botanist and teacher in South Africa....
  
   (1830–1909) M,S ........ MacOwan
• Wessel Marais (1929-) S ........ Marais
• Charles Dwight Marsh (1855–1932) S ........ Marsh
• Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
   (1794–1868) A,M,P,S ........ Mart.
• Maxwell Tylden Masters (1833–1907) P,S ........ Mast.
• Alan Percy Douglas McClean (1902-) S ........ McClean
• James McGibbon (fl. 1848-1864) S ........ McGibb.
• Mark Johnston McKen (1823–1872) P,S ........ McKen
• Patrick Gordon McNeil (1908–1986) S ........ McNeil
• Robert Earle Magill (1947-) B,S ........ Magill
• Wessel Marais (1929-) S ........ Marais
• Walter Friedrich Otto Marasas (1941-) M,S ........ Marasas
• Erika Irene Markotter (1905~06-1983) S ........ Markötter
• Hermann Wilhelm Rudolf Marloth (1855–1931) S ........ Marloth
• Judith Anne Marsh (=Mrs Hutchings)(1951-) S ........ J.A.Marsh
• Francis Masson
  Francis Masson
  Francis Masson was a Scottish botanist and gardener, and Kew Gardens’ first plant hunter.Masson was born in Aberdeen. In the 1760s he went to work at Kew Gardens as an under-gardener. Masson was the first plant collector to be sent from Kew by the newly-appointed director Sir Joseph Banks...
  
   (1741–1805) S ........ Masson
• Joseph (`Jimmy') William Mathews (1871–1949) S ........ J.W.Mathews
• Adrianus Dirk Jacob Meeuse (1914-) S ........ A.Meeuse
• Robert Desmond Meikle
  Robert Desmond Meikle
  Robert Desmond Meikle is a Northern Irish botanist from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He became most notable for his two-volume work Flora of Cyprus , the first comprehensive contribution about the almost 1750 plant taxa from Cyprus...
  
   (1923-) S ........ Meikle
• Carl Daniel Friedrich Meisner (1800–1874) S ........ Meisn.
• Archibald Menzies
  Archibald Menzies
  Archibald Menzies was a Scottish surgeon, botanist and naturalist.- Life and career :Menzies was born at Easter Stix in the parish of Weem, in Perthshire. While working with his elder brother William at the Royal Botanic Gardens, he drew the attention of Dr John Hope, professor of botany at...
  
   (1754–1842) B,P,S ........ Menzies
• Elmer Drew Merrill
  Elmer Drew Merrill
  Elmer Drew Merrill was an American botanist, specializing in the flora of the Asia-Pacific region.He was born in East Auburn, Maine, and attended the University of Maine where he received a B.S. in 1898...
  
   (1876–1956) M,P,S ........ Merr.
• Hermann Merxmuller (1920–1988) M,S ........ Merxm.
• Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer
  Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer
  Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer was a German botanist and botanical historian. Born in Hanover, he lectured in Göttingen and in 1826 became a professor of botany at the University of Königsberg, as well as Director of the Botanical Garden. His botanical specialty was the Juncaceae, or family of...
  
   (1791–1858) B,S ........ E.Mey.
• Paul Gerhard Meyer (1934-) S ........ P.G.Mey.
• Carl Christian Mez
  Carl Christian Mez
  Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and work:...
  
   (1866–1944) S ........ Mez
• Margaret Rutherford Michell (=Mrs Levyns) A ........ Michell
• John Miers
  John Miers (botanist)
  John Miers, FRS FLS, knight grand cross of the Order of the Rose, was a British botanist and engineer, best known for his work on the flora of Chile and Argentina....
  
   (1789–1879) P,S ........ Miers
• Gottfried Wilhelm Johannes Mildbraed (1879–1954) B,P,S ........ Mildbr.
• Oliphant Bell Miller (1882–1966) S ........ O.B.Mill.
• Edgar Wolston Bertram Handsley Milne-Redhead (1906-) S ........ Milne-Redh.
• Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
  Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
  Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel was a Dutch botanist.He was head of the botanical gardens at Rotterdam , Amsterdam and Utrecht . He directed the Rijksherbarium at Leiden from 1862...
  
   (1811–1871) A,B,M,P,S ........ Miq.
• Philip Miller
  Philip Miller
  Philip Miller FRS was a Scottish botanist.Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1722 until he was pressured to retire shortly before his death...
  
   (1691–1771) S ........ Mill.
• Charles Francois Brisseau de Mirbel (1776–1854) B,P,S ........ Mirb.
• David Searle Mitchell (1935-) P,S ........ D.S.Mitch.
• Rodney Oliver Moffett (1937-) S ........ Moffett
• Spencer Le Marchant Moore
  Spencer Le Marchant Moore
  Spencer Le Marchant Moore was an English botanist.Moore was born in Hampstead. He worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from about 1870 to 1879, wrote a number of botanical papers, and then worked in an unofficial capacity at the Natural History Museum from 1896 until his death.Moore is...
  
   (1850–1931) S ........ S.Moore
• Henry Nottidge Moseley
  Henry Nottidge Moseley
  Henry Nottidge Moseley, FRS was a British naturalist who sailed on the global scientific expedition of the HMS Challenger in 1872 through 1876....
  
   (1844–1890) S ........ H.Moseley
• Charles Edward Moss (1870–1930) S ........ Moss
• Margaret Moss (née Heatley)(1885–1953) S ........ M.Moss
• P.J. Muller (fl. 1973) M ........ P.J.Mull.bis
• Johannes (Jean) Muller Argoviensis
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis
  Johannes Müller Argoviensis was the name used by the Swiss botanist Johann Müller . He was the monographer of Resedaceae, Apocynaceae and Euphorbiaceae in A. P. de Candolle's Prodromus and Martius's Flora Brasiliensis. He was also an authority on lichens.-References:...
  
   (1828–1896) A,B,M,P,S ........ Müll.Arg.
• Dietrich Muller-Doblies
  Dietrich Muller-Doblies
  Dietrich Muller-Doblies is a German systematic botanist. His main areas of interest are the Bryophyta, the Spermatophyta, the Monocotyledons, Amaryllidaceae, Colchicaceae and Hyacinthaceae. He is currently at the Herbarium of the Technische Universität Berlin -References:...
  
   (1938-) S ........ D.Müll.-Doblies
• Ute Muller-Doblies (1938-) S ........ U.Müll.-Doblies

N

• Gustav Hermann Nachtigal (1834–1885) S ........ Nacht.
• Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
  Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...
  
   (1776–1858) A,B,M,P,S ........ Nees
• Gert Cornelius Nel (1885–1950) S ........ Nel
• David Nelson) ( -1789) S ........ Nelson
• (David) James Niven
  James Niven
  James Niven was a Scottish physician most famous for his work during the Spanish Flu outbreak in 1918 as Manchester's Medical Officer of Health. He held the position for 28 years , until he retired. He held the degrees of M.A., M.B. and LL.D. He had been Oldham's Medical Officer of Health from...
  
   (1774–1826)/(1776–1828) S ........ Niven
• Rune Bertil Nordenstam
  Bertil Nordenstam
  Rune Bertil Nordenstam is a Swedish botanist and professor emeritus at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in the Department of Phanerogamic Botany.He has worked with Colchicaceae, Senecioneaeand Calenduleae,...
  
   (1936-) S ........ B.Nord.
• Nils Tycho Norlindh (1906-) S ........ Norl.

O

• Anna Amelia Obermeyer
  Anna Amelia Obermeyer
  Anna Amelia Obermeyer was a South African botanist who worked at the Botanical Research Institute in Pretoria.- Selected publications :* Obermeyer, AA. 1959. Petalidium bracteatum.The Flowering Plants of Africa 33: t. 1317- Books :...
  
   (1907-) P,S ........ Oberm.
• Henrik Bernard Oldenland (1663–1697) L ........ Oldenl.
• Daniel Oliver
  Daniel Oliver
  Daniel Oliver, FRS was a British botanist.He was Librarian of the Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1860–1890 and Keeper there from 1864–1890, and Professor of Botany at University College, London from 1861–1888....
  
   (1830–1916) P,S ........ Oliv.
• Edward George Hudson Oliver
  Edward George Hudson Oliver
  Edward George Hudson Oliver, is a South African Botanist and author. Edward 'Ted' George Hudson Oliver was born 14 October 1938 in Rondebosch...
  
   (1938-) S ........ E.G.H.Oliv.
• Pehr Osbeck
  Pehr Osbeck
  Pehr Osbeck was a Swedish explorer, naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.-Naturalist in Canton:He was born in the parish of Hålanda in Västergötland and studied at Uppsala with Carolus Linnaeus...
  
   (1723–1805) M,S ........ Osbeck

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• Jorge Americo Rodrigues Paiva (1933-) S ........ Paiva
• Max Cilliers Papendorf (1917- ) M ........ Papendorf
• George Frederick(Frederik) Papenfuss (1903–1981) A ........ Papenf.
• Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Pappe
  Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Pappe
  Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Pappe was a German-born botanist who was a native of Hamburg.He studied medicine and botany at Leipzig, and in 1831 relocated to Cape Town as a physician. His primary focus soon turned to botany, and he began performing extensive investigations of South African flora...
  
   (1803–1862) P,S ........ Pappe
• Richard Neville Parker (1884–1958) S ........ R.Parker
• William Paterson
  William Paterson (explorer)
  Colonel William Paterson, FRS was a Scottish soldier, explorer, Lieutenant governor and botanist best known for leading early settlement in Tasmania. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Paterson when citing a botanical name.-Early years:A native of Montrose, Scotland, Paterson was...
  
   (1755–1810) S ........ Paterson
• Ferdinand Albin Pax
  Ferdinand Albin Pax
  Ferdinand Albin Pax was a German botanist and entomologist. He specialised in Lepidoptera, Diptera, as well as in spermatophytes, describing several species....
  
   (1858–1942) S ........ Pax
• Arthur Anselm Pearson (1874–1954) M ........ A.Pearson
• Henry Harold Welch Pearson
  Henry Harold Welch Pearson
  Henry Harold Welch Pearson , was a British-born South African botanist, chiefly remembered for founding Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in 1913....
  
   (1870–1916) S ........ H.Pearson
• George(Georges Guerrard) Samuel Perrottet (1793–1870) S ........ Perr.
• Pauline Lesley Perry (1927- ) S ........ P.L.Perry
• Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1761–1836) A,M,S ........ Pers.
• Bo-Hagard Peterson (1918–1990) S ........ B.Peterson
• Johann Joseph Peyritsch
  Johann Joseph Peyritsch
  Johann Joseph Peyritsch was an Austrian physician and botanist who was a native of Völkermarkt.In 1864 he earned his medical doctorate from Vienna, and from 1878 to 1889 was a professor of botany at the University of Innsbruck...
  
   (1835–1889) M,S ........ Peyr.
• Edwin Percy Phillips
  Edwin Percy Phillips
  Edwin Percy Phillips , was a South African botanist and taxonomist, noted for his monumental work The Genera of South African Flowering Plants first published in 1926....
  
   (1884–1967) S ........ E.Phillips
• Marcel Pichon
  Marcel Pichon
  - Publications :* 1948. Classification des apocynacées. 1. Carissées et ambelaniées* 1948. Classification des apocynacées : . IX. Rauvolfiées, alstoniées, allamandées et tabernémontanoïdées...
  
   (1921–1954) A,S ........ Pichon
• Barendina Jacoba Pienaar (1926-) S ........ B.J.Pienaar
• Richard N. Pienaar (1942-) A ........ Pienaar
• Gustav Robert Pieper (fl. 1908) S ........ G.Piep.
• Neville Stuart Pillans (1884–1964) S ........ Pillans
• Jules Emile Planchon
  Jules Émile Planchon
  Jules Émile Planchon was a French botanist born in Ganges, Hérault.-Biography:After receiving his Doctorate of Science at the University of Montpellier in 1844, he worked for a while at the Royal Botanical Gardens in London, and for a few years was a teacher in Nancy and Ghent...
  
   (1823–1888) P,S ........ Planch.
• Darrel Charles Herbert Plowes (fl. 1986) S ........ Plowes
• Mary Agard Pocock (1886–1977) A ........ Pocock
• Eduard Friedrich Poeppig
  Eduard Friedrich Poeppig
  Eduard Friedrich Poeppig was a German botanist, zoologist and explorer.-Biography:He was born in Plauen, Saxony. He studied medicine and natural history at the University of Leipzig, graduating with a medical degree. On graduation, the rector of the university gave him a botanical mission to North...
  
   (1798–1868) M,P,S ........ Poepp.
• Jean Louis Marie Poiret
  Jean Louis Marie Poiret
  Jean Louis Marie Poiret was a French clergyman, botanist and explorer.From 1785 to 1786 he was sent by Louis XVI to Algeria to study the flora...
  
   (1755–1834) A,B,M,P,S ........ Poir.
• Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans
  Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans
  Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans CMG was a Welsh-born South African botanist.-Biography:Pole-Evans was born in Llanmaes near Cardiff, the son of an Anglican clergyman, Daniel Evans and Caroline Jane Pole...
  
   (1879–1968) M,S ........ Pole-Evans
• Roger Marcus Polhill (1937-) S ........ Polhill
• Elizabeth Powrie (1925–1977) S ........ Powrie
• David Prain
  David Prain
  Sir David Prain FRS was a Scottish botanist.-Biography:Prain was born to a saddler in Fettercairn, Kincardineshire, Scotland and studied at the local Parish Schhool and the University of Aberdeen. He taught for two years at Ramsgate College and then returned to Scotland to enter the University of...
  
   (1857–1944) A,P,S ........ Prain
• Johann August Ludwig Preiss (1811–1883) S ........ L.Preiss
• Richard Chandler Alexander Prior (1809–1902) S ........ Prior
• Christian Puff (1949-) S ........ Puff
• K.M. Putterill (fl. 1954)(=Mrs Abbott) M ........ K.M.Putterill
• V.A. Putterill (fl. 1919) M ........ V.A.Putterill

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• Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer
  Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer
  Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer , was a noted Bavarian taxonomist and botanist, who was Professor of Botany at the University of Munich....
  
   (1829–1927) A,M,S ........ Radlk.
• Paul Theodor Range (1879–1952) S ........ Range
• Werner Rauh
  Werner Rauh
  Werner Rauh was an internationally renowned German botanist and author.-Biography:Born in the town of Niemegk in Brandenburg, Rauh studied at the University of Halle under the famous morphologist Wilhelm Troll and received his doctorate in 1937 before coming to the University of Heidelberg two...
  
   (1913-) B,P,S ........ Rauh
• Rawson William Rawson (1812–1899) P ........ Rawson
• Burkhardt Reber (1848–1926) S ........ Reber
• Eduard August von Regel
  Eduard August von Regel
  Eduard August von Regel was a German horticulturalist and botanist. He ended his career serving as the Director of the Russian Imperial Botanical Garden of St. Petersburg...
  
   (1815–1892) B,M,P,S ........ Regel
• Sigmund Eugen Adolf Rehm (1911-) S ........ S.E.A.Rehm
• Anton Rehmann
  Anton Rehmann
  Anton Rehmann aka Antoni Rehman was an Austrian geographer, geomorphologist, botanist and explorer. He published mostly in German journals in...
  
   (1840–1917) B,S ........ Rehmann
• Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt
  Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt
  Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt was a Prussian-born Dutch botanist.Reinwardt was the founder and first director of agriculture of the botanic garden at Bogor in Java...
  
   (1773–1854) B,P,S ........ Reinw.
• Alfred Barton Rendle
  Alfred Barton Rendle
  Alfred Barton Rendle FRS was an English botanist.Rendle was born in Lewisham and studied at St John's College, Cambridge...
  
   (1865–1938) A,P,S ........ Rendle
• Elizabeth Retief (1947-) S ........ Retief
• William Frederick Reyneke (1945-) S ........ Reyneke
• Gilbert Westacott Reynolds (1895–1967) S ........ Reynolds
• Achille Richard
  Achille Richard
  Achille Richard was a French botanist and physician .He was son of a notable botanist, Louis-Claude Marie Richard .Pharmacist in the French fleet and member of several well-known societies of their time....
  
   (1794–1852) A,B,M,P,S ........ A.Rich.
• Petrus Johannes Robbertse (1932-) S ........ Robbertse
• Colin Charles Robertson ( -1946) S ........ C.Robertson
• Norman Keith Bonner Robson (1928-) S ........ N.Robson
• Frans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns
  Frans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns
  Frans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns, known as Walter Robyns, was a Belgian botanist.After two long stays in Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, travels in central Africa and taxonomic work on many groups of tropical African plants, amongst others Rubiaceae, grasses and legumes, he became director of...
  
   (1901–1986) B,S ........ Robyns
• Johann Jakob Roemer (1763–1819) P,S ........ Roem.
• Frederick Arundel Rogers (1876–1944) S ........ F.A.Rogers
• William Moyle Rogers (1835–1920) S ........ W.M.Rogers
• Justo P. Rojo (1935-) S ........ Rojo
• Robert Allen Rolfe
  Robert Allen Rolfe
  Robert Allen Rolfe was a British botanist specializing in the study of orchids. He was the first curator of the orchid herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, founded the magazine The Orchid Review,and published many papers on hybrids of different species of orchids.The genus Allenrolfea of...
  
   (1855–1921) S ........ Rolfe
• James Henderson Ross (1941-) S ........ J.H.Ross
• Johan Peter Rottler
  Johan Peter Rottler
  Johan Peter Rottler was a botanist.Rottler was born at Strasburg June 1749, studied at Strasburg, was ordained and arrived at the Danish Lutheran Mission at Tranquebar in South India...
  
   (1749–1836) S ........ Rottler
• Arabella Elizabeth Roupell (1817–1914) S ........ Roupell
• John Patrick Rourke (1942-) S ........ Rourke
• Jacobus Petrus Roux (1954-) P,S ........ J.P.Roux
• William Roxburgh
  William Roxburgh
  William Roxburgh was a Scottish surgeon and botanist. He has been called the Father of Indian Botany.-Early life:Roxburgh was born at Underwood in the parish of Craigie, Ayrshire. He studied medicine in Edinburgh...
  
   (1751–1815) P,S ........ Roxb.
• Hedley Brian Rycroft (1918–1990) S ........ Rycroft

S

• Terence Macleane Salter (1883–1969) S ........ T.M.Salter
• Henry Frederick Conrad Sander
  Henry Frederick Conrad Sander
  Henry Frederick Conrad Sander was a German-born orchidologist and nurseryman who settled in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England and is noted for his monthly publication on orchids, Reichenbachia, named in honour of Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach of Hamburg, the great orchidologist.In 1867 Sander...
  
   (1847–1920) P,S ........ Sander
• John Sanderson
  John Sanderson
  Lieutenant General John Murray Sanderson AC is a former Governor of Western Australia and a former Chief of the Australian Army.-Early life:...
  
   (1820~21-1881) S ........ Sand.
• Carl Heinrich Schultz (1805–1867) S ........ Sch.Bip.
• Hans Conrad Schellenberg (1872–1923) A,M,S ........ Schellenb.
• Edmund Andre Charles Lois Eloi Schelpe (`Ted') (1924–1985) B,F,P,S ........ Schelpe
• Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper
  Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper
  Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper was a botanist and phytogeographer who made major contributions in the fields of histology, ecology and plant geography.-Biography:...
  
   (1856–1901) A,B,S ........ A.Schimp.
• Wilhelm Philippe Schimper (1808–1880) A,B,F,M,S ........ Schimp.
• Hans Schinz
  Hans Schinz
  Hans Schinz was a Swiss explorer and botanist who was a native of Zürich.In 1884 he participated in an exploratory expedition to German Southwest Africa that was organized by German merchant Adolf Lüderitz . For the next few years Schinz undertook extensive scientific studies of the northern parts...
  
   (1858–1941) P,S ........ Schinz
• Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal
  Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal
  Diederich von Schlechtendal was a German botanist born in Xanten. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea.His most important work was in...
  
   (1794–1866) M,P,S ........ Schltdl.
• Friedrich Richard Rudolf Schlechter (1872–1925) S ........ Schltr.
• Hans-Joachim Eberhardt Schlieben (1902–1975) S ........ Schlieb.
• Ferdinand Reynold Schoeman (1943-) A ........ Schoeman
• Selmar Schonland
  Selmar Schonland
  Professor Selmar Schonland , the founder of the Botany Department at Rhodes University, was a German immigrant, who came to the Eastern Cape in 1889 to take up an appointment as curator of the Albany Museum...
  
   (1860–1940) S ........ Schönland
• Johann Lucas Schonlein (1793–1864) S ........ Schönl.
• Carl Joseph Schroter (1855–1939) A,S ........ Schröt.
• Josef (Joseph) August Schultes (1773–1831) B,S ........ Schult.
• Karl Moritz Schumann
  Karl Moritz Schumann
  Karl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...
  
   (1851–1904) A,B,P,S ........ K.Schum.
• Herold Georg Wilhelm Johannes Schweickerdt (1903–1977) S ........ Schweick.
• Georg August Schweinfurth
  Georg August Schweinfurth
  Georg August Schweinfurth was a Baltic German botanist, traveller in East Central Africa and ethnologist....
  
   (1836–1925) P,S ........ Schweinf.
• Charles Leslie Scott (1913-) S ........ C.L.Scott
• George Francis Scott-Elliot (1862–1934) M,S ........ Scott-Elliot
• John Scouler
  John Scouler
  -Life:Scouler, the son of a calico-printer, was born in Glasgow on 31 Dec. 1804. He received the rudiments of his education at Kilbarchan, but was sent very early to the university of Glasgow. When his medical course there was completed, he went to Paris and studied at the Jardin des Plantes.On his...
  
   (1804–1871) S ........ Scouler
• Stanley Charles Seagrief (1927-) A ........ Seagrief
• Berthold Carl Seemann
  Berthold Carl Seemann
  Berthold Carl Seemann 25 February 1825 Hanover, Germany - 10 October 1871 Nicaragua, Central America, was a German botanist. He travelled widely and collected and described plants from the Pacific and South America....
  
   (1825–1871) B,P,S ........ Seem.
• Karl Otto von Seemen (1838–1910) S ........ Seemen
• Homer LeRoy Shantz (1876–1958) A,S ........ Shantz
• John Shaw (1837–1890) B ........ J.Shaw
• Franz(e) Wilhelm Sieber (1789–1844) B,P ........ Sieber
• Thomas Robertson Sim
  Thomas Robertson Sim
  Thomas Robertson Sim 25 June 1858 Northfield, Aberdeenshire, Scotland - 23 July 1938 Durban, Natal was a botanist, bryologist, botanical artist and Conservator of Forests in Natal, best known for his extremely detailed book The Forests and Forest Flora of The Colony of the Cape of Good Hope which...
  
   (1856–1938) B,P,S ........ Sim
• Richard Harold Simons (1928-) A ........ Simons
• John Sims (1749–1831) S ........ Sims
• Christo Albertyn Smith
  Christo Albertyn Smith
  Christo Albertyn Smith was a South African botanist.- References :...
  
   (1898–1956) S ........ C.A.Sm.
• Gerald Graham Smith (1892–1976) S ........ G.G.Sm.
• Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870–1950) S ........ Smuts
• Thomas Robert Soderstrom (1936–1987) S ........ Soderstr.
• Daniel Carl Solander (1733–1782) A,S ........ Sol.
• Hans Solereder
  Hans Solereder
  Hans Solereder , was a German botanist and university professor.Solereder studied biology from 1880 at the University of Munich, under Radlkofer, and was awarded a PhD in 1885. From 1886 to 1890 he was Assistant, and from 1888 tutor in the botany department's laboratory. In 1890 he became curator...
  
   (1860–1920) S ........ Soler.
• Otto Wilhelm Sonder
  Otto Wilhelm Sonder
  Otto Wilhelm Sonder was a German botanist and pharmacist who was a native of Holstein. From 1841 to 1878 he was the proprietor of a pharmacy in Hamburg. In 1846 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Königsberg.He was the author, with William Henry Harvey , of the Flora Capensis...
  
   (1812–1881) A,B,S ........ Sond.
• Pierre Sonnerat
  Pierre Sonnerat
  Pierre Sonnerat was a French naturalist and explorer.Sonnerat was the nephew of the botanist Pierre Poivre. He made several voyages to southeast Asia, visiting the Philippines and Moluccas between 1769 and 1772, and India and China from 1774 to 1781. He was the first person to give a scientific...
  
   (1748–1814) S ........ Sonn.
• Edouard Spach
  Édouard Spach
  Édouard Spach was a French botanist.The son of a merchant in Strasbourg, he went to Paris in 1824 where he studied botany with René Desfontaines and Antoine Laurent de Jussieu . He became the secretary of Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel...
  
   (1801–1879) P,S ........ Spach
• Anders Sparrman
  Anders Sparrman
  Anders Erikson Sparrman was a Swedish naturalist, abolitionist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus....
  
   (1748–1820) S ........ Sparrm.
• Curt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (1766–1833) A,B,M,P,S ........ Spreng.
• William Stanger (1811–1854) S ........ Stanger
• Otto Stapf
  Otto Stapf
  Otto Stapf FRS was an Austrian born botanist and taxonomist.Stapf trained in Vienna, moving to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1890. He was keeper of the Herbarium from 1909 to 1920...
  
   (1857–1933) B,S ........ Stapf
• Hans Ulrich Stauffer (1929–1965) S ........ Stauffer
• Sydney Margaret Stent (1875–1942) S ........ Stent
• Edith Layard Stephens
  Edith Layard Stephens
  Edith Layard Stephens was a South African botanist.-Reflist:...
  
   (1884–1966) A,M,S ........ Stephens
• Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel
  Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel
  Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel was a German physician and an authority on grasses.Steudel lived in Esslingen where with Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter he organized Unio Itineraria.- References :...
  
   (1783–1856) A,B,M,P,S ........ Steud.
• Joyce L. Stewart (née Tucker)(1936-) S ........ J.L.Stewart
• Charles Howard Stirton (1946-) S ........ C.H.Stirt.
• Bertha M. Stoneman (1866–1943) M ........ Stoneman
• Robert Story
  Robert Story
  Robert "Bob" Story is a Republican Party member of the Montana Senate, representing District 30 since 2002. Story is serving as the President of the Montana Senate.- References :...
  
   (1913-) S ........ Story
• Rudolf Georg Strey (1907–1988) S ........ Strey
• Per Arne Krister Strid (1943-) S ........ Strid
• Haring Johannes Swart (`Harry') (1922–1993) M ........ H.J.Swart
• Robert Sweet
  Robert Sweet (botanist)
  Robert Sweet was an English botanist, horticulturist and ornithologist.Born at Cockington near Torquay, Devonshire, England in 1783, Sweet worked as a gardener from the age of sixteen, and became foreman or partner in a series of nurseries. He was associated with nurseries at Stockwell, Fulham...
  
   (1783–1835) P,S ........ Sweet
• Charles Francis Massey Swynnerton
  Charles Francis Massey Swynnerton
  Charles Francis Massey Swynnerton CMG , was an English-born naturalist noted for his contributions to tsetse fly research....
  
   (1877–1938) S ........ Swynn.
• Ignaz von Szyszylowicz
  Ignaz von Szyszylowicz
  Ignacy Szyszyłowicz also known as Ignaz von Szyszyłowicz was a Polish botanist born in Granica. He contributed Part III.6 Caryocaraceae, Marcgraviaceae, Theaceae, Strasburgeriaceae to Engler & Prantl's Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien , .-References:...
  
   (1857–1910) B,P,S ........ Szyszyl[Polish l].

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• Patrick Henry Brabazon Talbot (1919–1979) M ........ P.H.B.Talbot
• Jiro Tanaka (1950-) A ........ Ji.Tanaka
• Paul Hermann Wilhelm Taubert (1862–1897) P,S ........ Taub.
• George Taylor (1904-) S ........ G.Taylor
• William Randolph Taylor (1895–1990) A ........ W.R.Taylor
• Johannes Jacobus Theron (1905-) S ........ Theron
• David Thoday
  David Thoday
  David Thoday FRS was a botanist. He was Harry Bolus professor of botany, University of Cape Town and later professor at the University College of North Wales 1923-1949. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1942. His son was the geneticist John Thoday...
  
   (1883–1964) S ........ Thoday
• (Hans) Justus Thode (1859–1932) S ........ Thode
• Mary Fraser Thompson (=Mrs Rand)(1941–1982) S ........ M.F.Thomps.
• Peter Thonning
  Peter Thonning
  Peter Thonning was a Danish physician and botanist.He was sent to Ghana by the Danish government to supervise the plantations of that colony, and he lived there from 1799 to 1803. His herbarium was destroyed during the shelling of Copenhagen by the British in 1807...
  
   (1775–1848) S ........ Thonn.
• Abel Aubert Dupetit Thouars
  Abel Aubert Dupetit Thouars
  Abel Aubert Dupetit Thouars was a French naval officer important in France's anexation of French Polynesia.He was born at the castle of La Fessardière, near Saumur. His uncle Aristide Aubert Dupetit-Thouars was of the heroes of the Battle of the Nile...
  
   (1793–1864) S ........ A.Thouars
• Louis Marie Aubert du Petit Thouars (1758–1831) P,S ........ Thouars
• Carl Peter Thunberg
  Carl Peter Thunberg
  Carl Peter Thunberg aka Carl Pehr Thunberg aka Carl Per Thunberg was a Swedish naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. He has been called "the father of South African botany" and the "Japanese Linnaeus"....
  
   (1743–1828) A,B,M,P,S ........ Thunb.
• Helmut Richard Toelken (1939-) S ........ Toelken
• Antonio Rocha da Torre (1904-) S ........ Torre
• Hamilton Paul Traub
  Hamilton Paul Traub
  Hamilton Paul Traub was an American botanist. He specialized in the study of Amaryllidaceae. He also did horticultural studies on beans.- References :...
  
   (1890–1983) S ........ Traub
• Jose Jeronimo Triana
  José Jéronimo Triana
  José Jerónimo Triana Silva was a Colombian botanist who catalogued 60,000 specimens representing 8,000 species.For example:* Acisanthera alsinaefolia Triana* Miconia albicans Triana...
  
   (1834–1890) P,S ........ Triana
• Wilhelm Triebner (1883–1957) S ........ Triebner
• Roland Trimen
  Roland Trimen
  Roland Trimen FRS was a British-South African entomologist, best-known for South African Butterflies , a collaborative work with Colonel James Henry Bowker....
  
   (1840–1916) S ........ R.Trimen
• Georges M.D.J. Troupin (1923-) S ........ Troupin
• Louis René Tulasne
  Louis René Tulasne
  Louis René Tulasne, aka Edmond Tulasne was a French botanist and mycologist who was born in Azay-le-Rideau. He originally studied law at Poitiers, but his interest later turned to botany. As a young man he accompanied botanist Auguste de Saint-Hilaire to South America to study the flora of Brazil...
  
   (1815–1885) M,S ........ Tul.
• Billie Lee Turner
  Billie Lee Turner
  Billie Lee Turner II is an American geographer, member of the National Academy of Sciences, and prominent among the third generation of the Berkeley School of Latin Americanist Geography. In August 2008, he took a position as the first Gilbert F...
  
   (1925-) S ........ B.L.Turner
• William Bertram Turrill
  William Bertram Turrill
  William Bertram Turrill OBE was an English botanist.He was born in Woodstock, Oxfordshire to William Banbury and Thirza Mary Turrill and educated at the Woodstock National School...
  
   (1890–1961) S ........ Turrill
• William Tyson (1851–1920) A ........ Tyson

V

• Martin (Henrichsen) Vahl (1749–1804) A,B,M,P,S ........ Vahl
• Paul Andries Van der Byl (1888–1939) M ........ Van der Byl
• Frederick Ziervogel Van der Merwe (1894–1968) S ........ Van der Merwe
• Jacoba Johanna Maria Van der Merwe (1946-) S ........ J.J.M.van der Merwe
• Johannes Jacobus Adriaan Van der Walt (1938-) S ........ J.J.A.van der Walt
• Gideon Christiaan Albertus Van der Westhuizen (fl. 1956) M ........ Van der Westh.
• Ernst Jacobus Van Jaarsveld (1953-) S ........ Van Jaarsv.
• Abraham Erasmus Braam van Wyk
  Abraham Erasmus Braam van Wyk
  Abraham Erasmus van Wyk, also known as Braam van Wyk is a South African plant taxonomist. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation A.E.van Wyk when citing a botanical name.-References:...
  
   (1952-) S ........ A.E.van Wyk
• (Georg(George) Carl) Wilhelm Vatke (1849–1889) S ........ Vatke
• Jose Mariano da Conceicao Vellozo (1742–1811) P,S ........ Vell.
• Etienne Pierre Ventenat
  Étienne Pierre Ventenat
  Étienne Pierre Ventenat was a French botanist born in Limoges. He was the brother of naturalist Louis Ventenat ....
  
   (1757–1808) M,P,S ........ Vent.
• Hendrik Johannes Tjaart Venter (1938-) S ........ Venter
• S. Venter (fl. 1988) S ........ S.Venter
• Bernard Verdcourt
  Bernard Verdcourt
  Bernard Verdcourt was a biologist and taxonomist, most widely known as a botanist and latterly an Honorary Research Fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London. Prior to coming to Kew in 1964, he was associated with the East African Herbarium for 15 years...
  
   (1925-) P,S ........ Verdc.
• Frans Verdoorn (1906–1984) B,P,S ........ Verd.
• Inez Clare Verdoorn
  Inez Clare Verdoorn
  Inez Clare Verdoorn , was a South African botanist and taxonomist, noted for her major revisions of plant families and genera....
  
   (1896–1989) S ........ I.Verd.
• Len Verwoerd (fl. 1924) M ........ Verwoerd
• Eugene (Deplanche Emile) Vieillard (1819–1896) P,S ........ Vieill.
• L.G.Alexandre Viguier (1790–1867) S ........ Vig.
• Otto Heinrich Volk (1903-) B,S ........ O.H.Volk
• Kaj Borge Vollesen (1946-) S ........ Vollesen
• Pieter Johannes Vorster (1945-) P,S ........ Vorster

W

• Horace Athelstan Wager (1876–1951) B ........ Wager
• Vincent Athelstan Wager (1904-) M,S ........ V.A.Wager
• Johann August Wahlberg (1810–1856) S ........ J.Wahlb.
• Marion Meason Walgate (=Mrs McNae)(1914-) S ........ Walgate
• Nathaniel Wallich
  Nathaniel Wallich
  Nathaniel Wallich was a surgeon and botanist of Danish origin who worked in India initially in the Danish settlement near Calcutta and later joined the East India Company...
  
   (olim Nathan Wolff)(1786–1854) P,S ........ Wall.
• Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers
  Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers
  Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers was a German botanist. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Walp. when citing a botanical name.-Works:*Repertorium botanices systematicæ...
  
   (1816–1853) S ........ Walp.
• Heinrich (Karl) Walter (1898-) S ........ H.K.Walter
• Otto Warburg
  Otto Warburg (botanist)
  Otto Warburg , was a German botanist and industrial agriculture expert, as well as an active member of the Zionist Organization...
  
   (1859–1938) P,S ........ Warb.
• Alma May Waterman (1893-) M ........ Waterman
• William Watson (1858–1925) S ........ W.Watson
• John Mitchell Watt (1892–1980) S ........ J.M.Watt
• Heinrich Wawra (1831–1887) P,S ........ Wawra
• Anne (Antoinette) Alois Weber (née van Bosse)(1852–1942) S ........ A.A.Webber
• Hugh Algernon Weddell
  Hugh Algernon Weddell
  Hugh Algernon Weddell was a physician and botanist, specialising in South American flora.Weddell was born at Birches House, Painswick near Gloucester, England but was raised in France and educated at the Lycée Henri IV, where he received a medical degree in 1841...
  
   (1819–1877) M,S ........ Wedd.
• August Henning Weimarck (1903–1980) S ........ Weim.
• Henry Welsh (1906–1967) A ........ Welsh
• Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1806–1872) M,P,S ........ Welw.
• Erich Werdermann
  Erich Werdermann
  Erich Werdermann was a German botanist.Born in Berlin, Erich Werdermann was the son of the landowner Carl Werdermann. He first studied in Jena, but then switched to Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin...
  
   (1892–1959) M,S ........ Werderm.
• Fritz(Friedrich) Wettstein (1895–1945) A,B,M,P,S ........ F.Wettst.
• Louis Cutter Wheeler (1910–1980) S ........ L.C.Wheeler
• Frank White (1927-) S ........ F.White
• Gerald Ernest Wickens (1927-) S ........ Wickens
• Delbert Wiens (1932-) S ........ Wiens
• Robert Wight
  Robert Wight
  Robert Wight was a Scottish surgeon and botanist who spent 30 years in India. He studied botany in Edinburgh under John Hope. He was the director of the Botanic Garden in Madras. He made use of local artists to make illustrations of the plants around him...
  
   (1796–1872) S ........ Wight
• Ernst Wilczek (1867–1948) M,P,S ........ Wilczek
• Hiram Wild (1917–1982) S ........ Wild
• Carl Ludwig von Willdenow (1765–1812) A,M,P,S ........ Willd.
• Ion James Muirhead Williams (1912-) S ........ I.Williams
• Friedrich Wilms
  Friedrich Wilms
  Friedrich Wilms , was a German apothecary, botanical collector and traveller....
  
   (1848–1919) B,S ........ F.Wilms
• Ernest Henry Wilson
  Ernest Henry Wilson
  Ernest Henry "Chinese" Wilson , better known as E. H. Wilson, was a notable English plant collector who introduced a large range of about 2000 of Asian plant species to the West; some sixty bear his name.-Career:...
  
   (1876–1930) S ........ E.H.Wilson
• Eduard Winkler (1799-) S ........ Winkl.
• Anthony Hurt Wolley-Dod
  Anthony Hurt Wolley-Dod
  Anthony Hurt Wolley-Dod was a British soldier and botanist . The fourth son of the Rev...
  
   (1861–1948) S ........ Wolley-Dod
• John Medley Wood
  John Medley Wood
  John Medley Wood 1 December 1827 Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England - 26 August 1915 Durban, was a South African botanist who contributed greatly to the knowledge of Natal ferns, is generally credited with the establishment of sugarcane mosaic virus immune Uba sugar cane in Natal and for his...
  
   (1827–1915) S ........ J.M.Wood
• Wilson Crosfield Worsdell (1867–1957) S ........ Worsd.
• Charles(Carlos) Wright (1811–1885) P,S ........ C.Wright
• Charles Henry Wright (1864–1941) A,P,S ........ C.H.Wright
• William Wright
  William Wright (botanist)
  William Wright was a Scottish physician and botanist.Born in March 1735 in Crieff, Perthshire, he studied at Crieff Grammar School and the University of Edinburgh, and obtained a medical degree at St. Andrews . He served as an apprentice with G Dennistoun in Falkirk , and became a navy surgeon in...
  
   (1735–1819) S ........ W.Wright
• Andrew Wyley (1820-) S ........ Wyley

Z

• Alexander Zahlbruckner
  Alexander Zahlbruckner
  Alexander Zahlbruckner was an Austrian botanist who specialized in the study of lichens -Works:Catalogus lichenum universalis. -Sources:...
  
   (1860–1938) M,S ........ Zahlbr.
• Carl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher (1799–1858) S ........ Zeyh.
• Eduard Meine van Zinderen-Bakker (1907-) B,M ........ Zind.-Bakker