This is a list of botanists by their
author abbreviationIn botanical nomenclature, author citation refers to citing the person who validly published a botanical name, i.e. who first published the name while fulfilling the formal requirements as specified by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature .-Normal usage:When citing a botanical name...
, including that established by Brummitt & Powell (1992), designed for citation in the
botanical nameA botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and, if the plant is a cultigen, the additional cultivar and/or Group epithets must conform to the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants...
s they have published. For this purpose a standardised index is available, published by the
Royal Botanic Gardens, KewThe Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, usually referred to simply as Kew Gardens, are 121 hectares of gardens and botanical glasshouses between Richmond and Kew in southwest London, England. The director is Professor Stephen D. Hopper, who succeeded Professor Sir Peter Crane...
in 1992. Use of this list is recommended by
Rec. 46A Note 1 of the
ICBN. The list is kept up to date and can be consulted at
IPNI.
Note that in some cases an "author abbreviation" consists of a full surname, while in other cases the surname is not only abbreviated but accompanied by one or more initials. In this list there is no space between initials and surname (or its abbreviation).
See also the
list of botanists,
List of South African plant botanical authors and :Category:Botanists.
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- A.A.Eaton - Alvah Augustus Eaton (1865–1908)
- Aarons. - Aaron Aaronsohn
Aaron Aaronsohn was a renowned Romanian-born Jewish agronomist, botanist, traveler, entrepreneur, and Zionist politician....
(1876–1919)
- A.Bassi - Agostino Bassi
Agostino Bassi, sometimes called de Lodi, was an Lombard entomologist. He preceded Louis Pasteur in the discovery that microorganisms can be the cause of disease...
(1772–1856)
- Abbayes - Henry Nicollon des Abbayes (1898–1974)
- Abbot - John Abbot (entomologist) (1751-c.1840)
- Abedin - Sultanul Abedin (fl. 1986)
- A.Berger - Alwin Berger
Alwin Berger was a German botanist best known for his contribution to the nomenclature of succulent plants, particularly agaves and cacti. Born in Germany he worked at the botanic gardens in Dresden and Frankfurt...
(1871–1931)
- A.B.Jacks. - Albert Bruce Jackson
Albert Bruce Jackson was a British botanist and dendrologist...
(1876–1947)
- A.Br. - Addison Brown
Addison Brown was a United States federal judge.Brown was born in West Newbury, Massachusetts, and was educated at Amherst College. He received an A.B. from Harvard University in 1852, and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1854...
(1830–1913)
- A.Braun - Alexander Karl Heinrich Braun (1805–1877)
- A.Camus - Aimée Antoinette Camus
Aimée Antoinette Camus was a French botanist. She was best known for her study of orchids.Camus was the daughter of Edmond Gustave Camus, also a botanist and was born in L'Isle-Adam, about 50 kilometres north of Paris...
(1879–1965)
- Acerbi - Giuseppe Acerbi
Giuseppe Acerbi was an Italian naturalist, and explorer.-Giuseppe Acerbi:In 1798 Acerbi travelled to Lapland, publishing his experiences in Travel through Sweden, Finland and Lapland to the North Cap in the years 1798 and 1799 ....
(1773-1846)
- Ach. - Erik Acharius
Erik Acharius was a Swedish botanist who pioneered the taxonomy of lichens and is known as the "father of lichenology"....
(1757–1819)
- A.Chev. - 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)
- A.C.Sm. - Albert Charles Smith
Albert Charles Smith was an American botanist. He was a director of the National Museum of Natural History, and chaired several important scientific societies, such as the American Society of Plant Taxonomists...
(1906–1999)
- Acuña - Julián Acuña Galé
Antonio Julián Baldomero Acuña Galé was a Cuban botanist who served as director of the Agricultural Experimental Station in Santiago de Las Vegas...
(1900–1973)
- A.Cunn. - Allan Cunningham
Allan Cunningham was an English botanist and explorer, primarily known for his travels in New South Wales to collect plants.- Early life :...
(1791–1839)
- Adams - Johann Friedrich Adam
Johann Friedrich Adam, later called Michael Friedrich Adams was a botanist from St. Petersburg, Russia....
(1780–1838)
- Adans. - Michel Adanson
Michel Adanson was a French naturalist of Scottish descent.Adanson was born at Aix-en-Provence. His family moved to Paris on 1730. After leaving the College Sainte Barbe he was employed in the cabinets of R. A. F. Reaumur and Bernard de Jussieu, as well as in the Jardin des Plantes...
(1727–1806)
- A.DC. - Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyrame de Candolle
Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyrame de Candolle , was a French-Swiss botanist, the son of the Swiss botanist A. P. de Candolle....
(1806–1893)
- A.Dietr. - Albert Gottfried Dietrich
Albert Gottfried Dietrich was a German botanist who was a native of Danzig.Dietrich was curator at the Botanical Garden in Berlin and was an instructor at the institute of horticulture at Berlin-Schöneberg...
(1795–1856)
- Aellen - Paul Aellen (1896–1973)
- A.E.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....
(born 1952)
- Afzel. - Adam Afzelius
Adam Afzelius was a Swedish botanist. 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)
- A.G.Floyd - Alexander G. Floyd (1926–)
- A.Gibson - Alexander Gibson
Alexander Gibson was a Scottish surgeon and botanist who worked in India.He was born in Kincardineshire and studied at Edinburgh. He went to India as a surgeon in the Honourable East India Company...
(1800–1867)
- A.G.Jones - Almut Gutter Jones (born 1923)
- A.G.Mill. - Anthony G. Miller (born 1951)
- A.Gray - Asa Gray
Asa Gray is considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century.He was instrumental in unifying the taxonomic knowledge of the plants of North America...
(1810–1888)
- A.Ham. - Arthur Hamilton (fl. 1832)
- A.Hässl. - Arne Hässler (1904–1952)
- A.Heller - Amos Arthur Heller
Amos Arthur Heller was an American botanist.He was one of the most prolific western collectors from 1892 until 1940. While living in Los Gatos, California, south of San Francisco from 1904 to 1908, Heller collected extensively in central California. He also obtained an impressive collection from...
(1867–1944)
- A.H.Gentry - Alwyn Howard Gentry (1945-1993)
- A.H.Holmgren - Arthur Hermann Holmgren (born 1912)
- Ahmadjian - Vernon Ahmadjian
Dr. Vernon Ahmadjian is a professor emeritus at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. He is a specialist on lichen symbiosis and has written several books and numerous publications on this subject....
(born 1930)
- Airy Shaw - Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw
Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw was a notable English botanist and classicist.Airy Shaw was born at The Mount, Grange Road, Woodbridge, Suffolk to a father serving as Second Master at the Woodbridge Grammar School and a mother descended from George Biddell Airy, Astronomer Royal...
(1902–1985)
- 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)
- A.J.Eames - Arthur Johnson Eames (1881–1969)
- A.J.Hill - Albert Joseph Hill (born 1940)
- A.Juss. - Adrien-Henri de Jussieu
Adrien-Henri de Jussieu was a French botanist.Born in Paris as the son of botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1824 with a treatise of the plant family Euphorbiaceae. When his father retired in 1826, he succeeded him at the Jardin des Plantes; in...
(1797–1853)
- Akhani - Hossein Akhani (born 1950)
- A.K.Skvortsov - Alexey Skvortsov
Alexey K. SkvortsovA prominent and influential Russian botanist and naturalist, a world-renowned specialist on amentiferous plants—willows , poplars , and birches as well as plants of the evening primrose family , A.K...
(born 1920)
- Alb. - Johannes Baptista von Albertini
Johannes Baptista von Albertini was a German botanist and clergyman of the Moravian Church. He was born in the town of Neuwied....
(1769–1831)
- Al.Brongn. - Alexandre Brongniart
Alexandre Brongniart was a French chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist, who collaborated with Georges Cuvier on a study of the geology of the region around Paris...
(1770–1847)
- Alef. - Friedrich Georg Christoph Alefeld (1820–1872)
- Alexander - Edward Johnston Alexander (1901–1985)
- All. - Carlo Allioni
Carlo Allioni was an Italian physician and professor of botany at the University of Turin. His most important work was Flora Pedemontana, sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii 1755, a study of the plant world in Piedmont, in which he listed 2813 species of plants, of which 237...
(1728–1804)
- Allemão - Francisco Freire Allemão e Cysneiro
Francisco Freire Allemão e Cysneiro was a Brazilian botanist who collected in northeast Brazil and along the Rio de Janeiro. His association with the Brazilian National Museum in Rio de Janeiro took place at a time when Brazilian botany was dominated by foreigners.Among his many duties as...
(1797–1874)
- Allred - Kelly Allred (born 1949)
- Á.Löve - Áskell Löve
Áskell Löve was an Icelandic botanist, born in Ísafjörður at the Westfjords of Iceland. But his wife, Doris, was of swedish birth.He wrote some floras on Icelandic vegetation including ÍSLENZKAR JURTIR - 1945, and ÍSLENZK FERÐAFLÓRA - 1970, . Both are illustrated by Dagny Tande Lid.His work was...
(1916–1994)
- Alph.Wood - Alphonso Wood (1810–1881)
- Alpino - Prospero Alpino (1553–1617)
- Al-Shehbaz - Ihsan Ali Al-Shehbaz
Ihsan Ali Al-Shehbaz, Ph.D. is an Iraqi American botanist who works as Adjunct Professor at University of Missouri-St. Louis and Curator and Head of the Department of Asian Botany at that same university. Al-Shehbaz's primary area of interest is Brassicaceae and The Durango Herald called him"a...
(born 1939)
- A.L.Sm. - Annie Lorrain Smith
Annie Lorrain Smith Annie Lorrain Smith Annie Lorrain Smith (23 October 1854–7 September 1937 was a British lichenologist whose Lichens (1921) was an essential textbook for several decades...
(1854–1937)
- Altam. - Fernando Altamirano
Fernando Altamirano was a Mexican physician, botanist and naturalist. He was born in Aculco, studied in Queretaro, and died in Mexico City...
(1848–1908)
- Ames - Oakes Ames
Oakes Ames was an American botanist specializing in orchids. His estate is now the Borderland State Park in Massachusetts....
(1874–1950)
- Amman - Johann Amman
Johann Amman, Johannes Amman or Иоганн Амман , was a Swiss-Russian botanist, a member of the Royal Society and professor of botany at the Russian Academy of Sciences at St Petersburg...
(1707–1741)
- A.M.Sm. - Annie Morrill Smith
Annie Morrill Smith was a botanist and bryologist from Brooklyn. She was a largely self-taught amateur who became important to the Sullivant Moss Society. From 1906 to 1911 she acted as the sole editor of The Bryologist...
(1856-1946)
- 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.He studied at Uppsala University between 1840-45 obtaining a...
(1821–1880)
- Andrews - Henry Charles Andrews
Henry Charles Andrews fl., was an English botanist, botanical artist and engraver.He lived in Knightsbridge and was married to the daughter of John Kennedy of Hammersmith, a nurseryman who assisted Andrews in the descriptions of the plants he illustrated.He was an accomplished and unusual botanical...
(1794–1830)
- Andronov - Nicolai Matveevich Andronov (fl. 1955)
- Andrz. - Antoni Lukianowicz Andrzejowski (1785–1868)
- Ant.Juss. - Antoine de Jussieu
Antoine de Jussieu was a French naturalist.Jussieu was born in Lyon, the son of Christophe de Jussieu , an apothecary of some repute, who published a Nouveau traité de la theriaque . Antoine studied at the university of Montpellier, and travelled with his brother Bernard through Spain, Portugal...
(1686–1758)
- Ant.Molina - José Antonio Molina Rosito
José Antonio Molina Rosito , usually known as Antonio Molina, is a Honduran botanist and Professor emeritus at the Zamorano Pan-American School of Agriculture....
(born 1926)
- Antoine - Franz Antoine
Franz Antoine was an Austrian horticulturalist and gardener who was a native of Vienna.From 1865 he was director of royal gardens to the Austrian/Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He was an authority on the botanical family Bromeliaceae, and was also an avid photographer...
(1815–1886)
- Arcang. - Giovanni Arcangeli
Giovanni Arcangeli was an Italian botanist who was a native of Firenze.In 1862 he earned his degree in natural sciences from the University of Pisa, where he later became an instructor and professor...
(1840–1921)
- A.R.Clapham - Arthur Roy Clapham
Arthur Roy Clapham, CBE FRS , was a British botanist.Educated at Downing College, Cambridge, Clapham worked at Rothamsted Experimental Station as a crop physiologist , and then took a teaching post in the botany department at Oxford University. He was Professor of Botany at Sheffield University...
(1904–1990)
- Ard. - Pietro Arduino (1728–1805)
- A.Rich. - 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)
- Aresch. - Johan Erhard Areschoug
Johan Erhard Areschoug was a Swedish botanist who was a native of Göteborg....
(1811–1887)
- Arn. - George Arnott Walker Arnott (1799–1868)
- A.Robyns - Andre Georges Marie Walter Albert Robyns (1935–2003)
- Arráb. - D. Francisco Antonio de Arrábida (1771–1850)
- Arruda - Manoel Arruda da Cámara (1752–1810)
- Arthur - Joseph Charles Arthur
Joseph Charles Arthur was an American botanist known for his investigations into rusts .- External links :*...
(1850–1942)
- Art.Mey. - Arthur Meyer
Arthur Meyer was a German botanist, cell biologist, and pharmacognosist. Meyer is known for his pioneering work describing the structure of chloroplasts and other plastids. He was the first to name and describe the chlorophyll-containing structures in choloroplasts known as grana.Meyer spent his...
(1850–1922)
- Asch. - Paul Friedrich August Ascherson
Paul Friedrich August Ascherson was a German botanist. His author citation is Asch., although Aschers. has been used in the past....
(1834–1913)
- A.S.George - Alex George
Alexander Segger George is a Western Australian botanist. He is the authority on the plant genera Banksia and Dryandra....
(born 1939)
- Ashe - William Willard Ashe (1872–1932)
- A.Sinclair - Andrew Sinclair (1796–1861)
- A.Soriano - Alberto Soriano (1920–1998)
- A.Stahl - Agustín Stahl
Dr. Agustín Stahl , was a medical doctor and the first renowned Puerto Rican scientist, with diverse interests in the fields of ethnology, botany, and zoology. He advocated Puerto Rico's independence from Spain....
(1842–1917)
- A.St.-Hil. - Augustin Saint-Hilaire
Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orleans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...
(1799–1853)
- A.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 hero of the Battle of the Nile...
(1793–1864)
- Aubl. - Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet
Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.Born in Salon-de-Provence, he joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years...
(1720–1778)
- Aubriet - Claude Aubriet
Claude Aubriet was a French illustrator and botanical artist who was born in Chalons-sur-Marne.Aubriet was a botanical artist who worked at the Jardin du Roi in Paris. His work attracted the attention of botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort , who commissioned Aubriet as illustrator of Tournefort's...
(1651–1742)
- Aucher - Pierre Martin Rémi Aucher-Éloy
Pierre Martin Rémi Aucher-Éloy was a French pharmacist and botanist who was a native of Blois.He received his education at Orléans and later Paris. In 1830 he relocated to Istanbul with aims of creating an Herbier d'Orient...
(1792–1838)
- Audib. - Urbain Audibert (1791–1846)
- Austin - Coe Finch Austin (1831–1880)
- Avé-Lall. - Julius Léopold Eduard Avé-Lallemant
Julius Léopold Eduard Avé-Lallemant was a German botanist who was a native of Lübeck.From 1838 to 1855 he performed his scientific work in St. Petersburg. Botanists Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer and Carl Anton von Meyer named the plant genus Lallemantia from the family Lamiaceae in his honor...
(1803–1867)
- A.W.Hill - Arthur William Hill
Arthur William Hill may refer to:*Lord Arthur Hill , Irish politician*Sir Arthur William Hill , Director of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew...
(1875–1941)
- A.W.Howitt - Alfred William Howitt
Alfred William Howitt was an Australian anthropologist and naturalist.-Background:Howitt was born in Nottingham, England, the son of authors William Howitt and Mary Botham. He came to the Victorian gold fields in 1852 with his father and brother to visit his uncle, Dr. Godfrey Howitt...
(1830–1908)
- Axelrod - Daniel I. Axelrod
Daniel Isaac Axelrod was a leading twentieth century paleoecologist specializing in Tertiary Cordilleran floras, in particular correlating fossil evidence of specific floras with climate change indicators.-Biography:...
(1910–1998)
B
- Bab. - Charles Cardale Babington
Charles Cardale Babington was an English botanist and archaeologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1851....
(1808-1895)
- Backeb. - Curt Backeberg
Curt Backeberg was a German horticulturist especially known for the collection and classification of cacti.He travelled extensively through Central and South America, and published a number of books on cacti, including the six-volume, 4,000-page Die Cactaceae, 1958-1962, and the Kakteenlexikon,...
(1894–1966)
- Baill. - 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)
- Baillon - Louis Antoine Francois Baillon
Louis Antoine François Baillon was a French naturalist and collector. He was born in Montreuil-sur-Mer and died in Abbeville....
(1778–1851)
- Baker - John Gilbert Baker
John Gilbert Baker was an English botanist.Baker was born in Guisborough. He worked at the library and herbarium of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew between 1866 and 1899, and was keeper of the herbarium from 1890 to 1899. He wrote handbooks on many plant groups, including Amaryllidaceae, Bromeliaceae,...
(1834–1920)
- Baker f. - Edmund Gilbert Baker (1864–1949)
- Balb. - Gioanni Battista Balbis (1765-1831)
- Baldwin - William Baldwin
William Baldwin was an American physician and botanist who is today remembered for his significant contributions to botany. He lived in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Georgia, and served as a ship's surgeon on two voyages overseas...
(1779–1819)
- Balf. - John Hutton Balfour
John Hutton Balfour was a Scottish botanist. He became Professor of Botany first at the University of Glasgow in 1841, and then moved to Edinburgh University, also becoming Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Her Majesty's Botanist in Scotland in 1845, which posts he held until...
(1808–1884)
- Balf.f. - Isaac Bayley Balfour
Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour was a Scottish botanist. He was the son of John Hutton Balfour who was also a botanist.-Biography:...
(1853–1922)
- Bals.-Criv. - Giuseppe Gabriel Balsamo-Crivelli
Giuseppe Gabriel Balsamo-Crivelli was an Italian naturalist, born 1800-09-01 in Milan, died 1874-11-15 in Pavia.He became professor of mineralogy and zoology at the University of Pavia in 1851, and was appointed professor of comparative anatomy in 1863...
(1800–1874)
- Banks - Joseph Banks
Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, PRS was a British 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, Banksia...
(1743–1820)
- Barb.Rodr. - João Barbosa Rodrigues
João Barbosa Rodrigues was an important Brazilian botanist.He was born in Rio de Janeiro and raised in Campanha, in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He returned to Rio de Janeiro with his family in 1858. He first dedicated to the commerce, but he was always interested in natural science,...
(1842–1909)
- Bard.-Vauc. - Martine Bardot-Vaucoulon (born 1948)
- Barkworth - Mary Barkworth (born 1941)
- Barneby - Rupert Charles Barneby
Rupert Charles Barneby was a British-born self-taught botanist whose primary specialty was Fabaceae, the pea family, but also worked on Menispermaceae and numerous other groups as well...
(1911–2000)
- Barnhart - John Hendley Barnhart (1871–1949)
- Barr - Peter Barr (1826–1909)
- Barratt - Joseph Barratt (1796–1882)
- Barroso - Liberato Joaquim Barroso (1900–1949)
- Bartal. - Biagio Bartalini
Biagio Bartalini was an Italian physician and botanist born in Torrita di Siena.From 1782 to 1822 he was director of the botanical garden in Siena, and in 1815-19 was president of the Accademia dei Fisiocritici...
(1746–1822)
- Bartl. - 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)
- Bartlett - Harley Harris Bartlett (1886–1960)
- Barton - Benjamin Smith Barton
Benjamin Smith Barton was an American botanist and physician.Barton studied at the York Academy in Lancaster, Pennsylvania from 1780 to 1782, then attended the College of Philadelphia, studying medicine under Thomas Shippen from 1784, and accompanying David Rittenhouse on an expedition to survey...
(1766–1815)
- Bartram - John Bartram
John Bartram was an early American botanist, horticulturalist, and explorer. Carolus Linnaeus said he was the "greatest natural botanist in the world."...
(1699–1777)
- Bates - John Mallory Bates (1846–1930)
- Batsch - August Johann Georg Karl Batsch
Dr August Johann Georg Karl Batsch was a German naturalist. He was a recognised authority on mushrooms.- Life and career :...
(1761–1802)
- Batt. - Jules Aimé Battandier
Jules Aimé Battandier was a French botanist who was a native of Annonay, department of Ardèche. He was an authority on Algerian flora....
(1848–1922)
- Baumg. - Johann Christian Gottlob Baumgarten
Johann Christian Gottlob Baumgarten was a German physician and botanist who was a native of Luckau.He studied in Dresden and Leipzig, and while at Leipzig performed field studies of its local flora, publishing the treatise Flora Lipsiensis in 1790. That same year he earned his philosophy degree,...
(1765–1843)
- B.Boivin - Joseph Robert Bernard Boivin (1916–1985)
- B.D.Jacks. - Benjamin Daydon Jackson
Benjamin Daydon Jackson was a pioneering botanist and taxonomer who wrote the first volume of Index Kewensis to include all the flowering plants....
(1846–1927)
- Beadle - Chauncey Delos Beadle (1856–1950)
- Beal - William James Beal (1833-1924)
- Bean - William Jackson Bean
William Jackson Bean was a botanist and plantsman, who was curator of Kew Gardens from 1922-1929. He was responsible for some of the present collections of trees and woody plants there....
(1863–1947)
- Bebb - Michael Schuck Bebb
Michael Schuck Bebb was an amateur systematic botanist in the nineteenth century with a reputation as the leading salicologist in both America and Europe...
(1833–1895)
- Becc. - 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)
- Beck - Günther von Mannagetta und Lërchenau Beck
Günther von Mannagetta und Lërchenau Beck was a prominent German botanist....
(1856–1931)
- Becker - Johannes Becker (1769–1833)
- Bedd. - Richard Henry Beddome
Colonel Richard Henry Beddome was a British military officer in India and a naturalist.He joined the army in India in 1848 and was posted to the 42nd Madras Native Infantry In 1857 he was selected on account of his devotion to botany and natural history as an assistant to Dr Hugh Cleghorn...
(1830–1911)
- Beentje - Henk Jaap Beentje (born 1951)
- Beetle - Alan Ackerman Beetle
Alan Ackerman Beetle was an American botanist. He was a professor of the University of Wyoming College of Agriculture.He is best known for his work with Spermatophytes....
(born 1913)
- Bég. - Augusto Béguinot (1875–1940)
- Beissn. - Ludwig Beissner
Ludwig Beissner was a German horticulturalist and dendrologist who was a native of Ludwigslust.From 1887 to 1913 Beissner was inspector of the Botanical Gardens of Bonn...
(1843–1927)
- Beitel - Joseph M. Beitel (1952–1991)
- Bellair - Georges Adolphe Bellair (1860-1939)
- Bellardi - Carlo Antonio Lodovico (1741–1826)
- Belosersky - R. N. Belosersky (fl. 1966)
- Benj. - Ludwig Benjamin
Ludwig Benjamin was a German botanist who contributed to Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius' Flora Brasiliensis. The standard author abbreviation Benj. is used to indicate him as the author when citing a botanical name. The genus Benjaminia is named in his honour....
(1825–1848)
- Benn. - John Joseph Bennett
John Joseph Bennett was a British botanist.Bennett was assistant keeper of the Banksian herbarium and library at the British Museum from 1827 to 1858, when he succeeded Robert Brown as Keeper of the Botanical Department. He retired in 1870. He was secretary of the Linnean Society of London from...
(1801–1876)
- Benth. - 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)
- Bentley - Robert Bentley
Robert Bentley was an English botanist. He is perhaps best remembered today for the four-volume Medicinal Plants, published in 1880 with Henry Trimen and containing over three hundred hand-colored plates by botanist David Blair.-Life:Robert Bentley was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire in 1821...
(1821–1893)
- Bercht. - Friedrich von Berchtold
Bedřich Karel Eugen Všemír Berchtold hrabě z Uherčic, in German: Friedrich Berchtold Graf von Ungarschitz was a Czech physician and botanist....
(1781–1876)
- Berg - Ernst von Berg (1782–1855)
- Berger - Ernst Friedrich Berger (1814–1853)
- Bergey - David Hendricks Bergey
David Hendricks Bergey was an American bacteriologist, born December 27, 1860 in Skippack, Pennsylvania, died September 5, 1937 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
(1860–1937)
- Berggr. - Sven Berggren
Sven Berggren was a Swedish botanist, explorer and university professor. He was a professor at Lund University 1883-1902, later at Uppsala University....
(1837–1917)
- Berk. - Miles Joseph Berkeley
Miles Joseph Berkeley was an English cryptogamist and clergyman.Berkeley was born at Biggin Hall, Northamptonshire, and educated at Rugby School and Christ's College, Cambridge. Taking holy orders, he became incumbent of Apethorpe in 1837, and vicar of Sibbertoft, near Market Harborough, in 1868...
(1803–1889)
- Berkhout - Christine Marie Berkhout
Christine Marie Berkhout was a mycologist. She described the genus Candida in her doctoral thesis for the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands in 1923. This event was later described as marking "the beginning of the rational systematics of the anascosporogenous...
(1893–1932)
- Bernh. - Johann Jacob Bernhardi
Johann Jacob Bernhardi was a German professor of botany who was a native of Erfurt.In 1799 he received his PhD and medical doctorate from the University of Erfurt, and during the same year became director of the Gartenstraße Botanical Gardens...
(1774–1850)
- Berthel. - Sabin Berthelot
Sabin Berthelot was a French naturalist and ethnologist. He was resident on the Canary Islands for part of his life, and co-authored L'Histoire Naturelle des Îles Canaries with Philip Barker Webb....
(1794–1880)
- Bertol. - Antonio Bertoloni
Antonio Bertoloni was an Italian botanist who made extensive studies of Italian plants...
(1775–1869)
- Besser - Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser (1784–1842)
- Bessey - Charles Edwin Bessey
Charles Edwin Bessey was an American botanist, born at Milton, Ohio. He graduated in 1869 at the Michigan Agricultural College. Bessey also studied at Harvard under Asa Gray, in 1872 and in 1875-76. He was professor of botany at the Iowa Agricultural College from 1870 to 1884...
(1845–1915)
- Bews - John William Bews (1884–1938)
- Beyr. - Heinrich Karl Beyrich
Heinrich Karl Beyrich was a German botanist who was a native of Wernigerode.He studied botany at the University of Göttingen, and in 1819 performed botanical excursions throughout northern and eastern Italy...
(1796–1834)
- B.F.Holmgren - Bjorn Frithiofsson Holmgren (1872–1946)
- B.G.Schub. - Bernice Giduz Schubert (1913–2000)
- Biehler - Johann Friedrich Theodor Biehler (born c. 1785, date of death unknown)
- Bigelow - Jacob Bigelow
Dr. Jacob Bigelow was a prominent medical doctor, botanist, and architect of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.-Biography:...
(1787–1879)
- Binn. - Simon Binnendijk
Simon Binnendijk was a Dutch gardener and botanist born in Leiden.He received botanical training under Willem Hendrik de Vriese in Leiden. From 1850 to 1869 he was assistant curator at the Botanical Garden of Buitenzorg in the Dutch East Indies, afterwards serving as curator of the gardens...
(1821-1883)
- Biv. - Antonius de Bivoni-Bernardi (1774–1837)
- B.Juss. - Bernard de Jussieu
Bernard de Jussieu was a French naturalist, younger brother of Antoine de Jussieu.Bernard de Jussieu was born in Lyon...
(1699–1777)
- Blake - Joseph Blake
Joseph Blake may refer to:*Joseph Blake , English colonial administrator; governor of South Carolina in 1694, and 1696–1700...
(1814–1888)
- Blakelock - Ralph Anthony Blakelock (1915–1963)
- Blanch. - William Henry Blanchard (1850–1922)
- Blanco - Francisco Manuel Blanco
Francisco Manuel Blanco was a Spanish friar and botanist.-Biography:He was a member of the Augustinian order. His first assignment was in Angat in the province of Bulacan in the Philippines. He subsequently had a variety different assignments...
(1778–1845)
- Blasdell - Robert Ferris Blasdell (1929–1996)
- Blomq. - Hugo Leander Blomquist (1888–1964)
- B.L.Rob. - Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1864–1935)
- B.L.Turner - Billie Lee Turner
Billie Lee Turner II is an American geographer. In August 2008, he took a position as the first Gilbert F. White Chair in Environment and Society at Arizona State University, where he is affiliated with the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and the School of Sustainability. For...
(born 1925)
- Bluff - Mathias Joseph Bluff (1805–1837)
- Blume - Carl Ludwig Blume
Charles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume was a German-Dutch botanist.He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but studied at Leiden University and spent his professional life working in the Dutch East Indies and in the Netherlands, where he was Director of the Rijksherbarium at Leiden...
(1789–1862)
- B.Nord. - 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, Asteraceae, Senecioneaeand Calenduleae,...
(born 1936)
- Böcher - Tyge W. Böcher
Tyge Wittrock Böcher was a Danish botanist, evolutionary biologist, plant ecologist and phytogeographer.Professor in botany at the University of Copenhagen from 1954 to 1979....
(1909–1983)
- Boeck - Johann Otto Boeckeler (1803–1899)
- Boehm. - Georg Rudolf Boehmer
Georg Rudolf Boehmer ; was a German botanist and physician who was born in Legnica.He studied botany at the University of Leipzig under Christian Gottlieb Ludwig . In 1752 he succeeded Abraham Vater as professor of botany and anatomy at the University of Wittenberg, where in 1782 became a...
(1723–1803)
- Boiss. - 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)
- Boiteau - Pierre L. Boiteau (1911–1980)
- Bolle - Carl Bolle
Carl August Bolle was a German naturalist and collector.Bolle was born at Berlin into a wealthy brewing family. He studied medicine and natural science at Berlin and Bonn...
(1821–1909)
- Bong. - August Gustav Heinrich von Bongard
August Gustav Heinrich von Bongard was a German botanist, who worked at Saint Petersburg, Russia. He was among the first botanists to describe the new plants then being discovered in Alaska , including species now of major commercial importance like Sitka Spruce and Red Alder...
(1786–1839)
- Bonpl. - Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland (1773–1858)
- Boom - Boudewijn Karel Boom (1903–1980)
- Boott - Francis Boott
Francis Boott was an American physician and botanist who was resident in Great Britain from 1820.- Biography :Boott was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the brother of Kirk Boott, one of the founders of Lowell, Massachusetts...
(1792–1863)
- Borbás - Vinczé von Borbás (1844–1905)
- Boreau - Alexandre Boreau
Alexandre Boreau was a French pharmacist and botanist. He is the binomial authority of plants such as Polygonum arenastrum and Pulmonaria longifolia.-Biography:...
(1803–1875)
- Borhidi - Atilla Borhidi (born 1932)
- Boriss. - Antonina Georgievna Borissova
Antonina Georgievna Borissova was a Russian botanist, specialising in the flora of the deserts and semi-desert of central Asia....
(1903–1970)
- Borkh. - Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen
Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen was a German naturalist. He assisted in the production of "Teutsche Ornithologie oder Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Teutschlands in naturgetreuen Abbildungen und Beschreibungen" by Johann Conrad Susemihl.-Works:*Naturgeschichte der europäischen Schmetterlinge *Versuch...
(1760–1806)
- Börner - Carl Julius Bernhard Börner
Carl Julius Bernhard Börner was a German entomologist.Börner was born in Bremen and died in Naumburg. His collections of Collembola are located in the Natural History Museum, London and the Deutsches Entomologisches Institut in Müncheberg....
(1880–1953)
- Bornm. - Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller
Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller was a German botanist who was born in Hildburghausen, Thuringia.He studied horticulture in Potsdam, and in 1886 travelled to the Balkans and Greece on his first botanical expedition...
(1862–1948)
- Borrer - William Borrer (1781–1862)
- Borsch - Thomas Borsch (born 1969)
- Borss.Waalk. - Jan van Borssum Waalkes (1922–1985)
- Bory - Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent
Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent was a French naturalist. He was born at Agen...
(1780–1846)
- Borzí - Antonino Borzí (1852–1921)
- Bos - Jan Just Bos
Jan Justus Bos was a Dutch botanist, television presenter, and rower who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics and in the 1964 Summer Olympics....
(1939-2003)
- Bosc - Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc
Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc was a French botanist, invertebrate zoologist, and entomologist.-Biography:...
(1759–1828)
- Boucher - Jules Armand Guillaume Boucher de Crèvecœur (1757–1844)
- Boud. - Jean Louis Émile Boudier
Jean Louis Émile Boudier was a pharmacist who lived in Montmorency, France. He published a fair amount about the Discomycetes and other areas of mycology...
(1828–1920)
- Boulger - George Edward Simmonds Boulger (1853–1922)
- Brack. - Willian Dunlop Brackenridge (1810–1893)
- Brainerd - Ezra Brainerd
Ezra Brainerd was president of Middlebury College from 1885 until 1908.Born in St. Albans, Vermont, Brainerd was a graduate of the college in 1864. Brainerd assumed the presidency at a time when the college was recovering from an extended period of hardship...
(1844–1924)
- Brandão - Mitzi Brandão
- Brandegee - Townshend Stith Brandegee (1843–1925)
- Brandenburg - D. M. Brandenburg (fl. 1991)
- Brandis - Dietrich Brandis
Sir Dietrich Brandis FRS, KCIE was a German forester who worked in India. He is considered the father of tropical forestry.-Early life:...
(1824–1907)
- Branner - John C. Branner (fl. 1888)
- Bremek. - Cornelis Eliza Bertus Bremekamp (1888-1984)
- 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 received his Master of Arts from the University of Oxford in 1940 and began to work at the Imperial Forestry Institute in Oxford...
(1917–1985)
- Brenckle - Jacob Frederic Brenckle (1875–1958)
- Bright - John Bright (1872–1952)
- Briq. - John Isaac Briquet
John Isaac Briquet was a Swiss plant collector....
(1870–1931)
- Britten - James Britten
James Britten was an English botanist.Born in Chelsea, London, he moved to High Wycombe in 1865 to begin a medical career. However he became increasingly interested in botany, and began writing papers on the subject...
(1846–1924)
- Britton - Nathaniel Lord Britton
Nathaniel Lord Britton was a US botanist and taxonomist who founded the New York Botanical Garden in Bronx, New York. Britton was born in New Dorp in Staten Island, New York...
(1859–1934)
- Bromhead - Edward Ffrench Bromhead (1789–1855)
- Brongn. - Adolphe Theodore Brongniart
Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart was a French botanist. He was the son of the geologist Alexandre Brongniart and grandson of the architect, Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart. Brongniart's pioneering work on the relationships between extinct and existing plants has earned him the title of father of...
(1801–1876)
- Brooker - Ian Brooker
Murray Ian Hill Brooker AM , better known as Ian Brooker, is an Australian botanist. He is widely recognised as the leading authority on the genus Eucalyptus....
(born 1934)
- Brooks - Cecil Joslin Brooks (1875–1953)
- Brooks - Ralph Edward Brooks (born 1950)
- Broome - Christopher Edmund Broome
Christopher Edmund Broome was a mycologist. He is most well known for his collaboration with Miles Joseph Berkeley, publishing many joint articles with him....
(1812–1886)
- Brot. - Felix de Silva Avellar Brotero (1744–1828)
- Brouillet - Luc Brouillet (born 1954)
- Brouss. - Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet
Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet , French naturalist, was born at Montpellier, and was educated for the medical profession...
(1761–1807)
- Browicz - Kasimierz Browicz (1925- )
- Bruijn - Ary Johannes De Bruijn (1811–1896)
- Brummitt - Richard Kenneth Brummitt (born 1937)
- Brunet - Louis-Ovide Brunet
Louis-Ovide Brunet was a French-Canadian botanist and Roman Catholic priest, and is considered one of the founding fathers of Canadian botany....
(1826–1876)
- Bruyns - Peter Vincent Bruyns (born 1957)
- Buchenau - Franz Georg Philipp Buchenau
Franz Georg Philipp Buchenau was a German botanist and phytogeographer who was a native of Kassel. He specialized in flora of northwestern Germany....
(1831–1906)
- Buch.-Ham. - 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.He was born Francis Buchanan at Bardowie, Callander, Perthshire; his...
(1762–1829)
- Buckland - William Buckland
The Very Rev. Dr William Buckland DD FRS was an English geologist, palaeontologist and Dean of Westminster, who wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur...
(1784–1856)
- Buckley - Samuel Botsford Buckley
Samuel Botsford Buckley was an American naturalist....
(1809–1884)
- Buddle - Adam Buddle
Adam Buddle was an English cleric and botanist. Born at Deeping St James, a small village near Peterborough, he was educated at Cambridge University and eventually ordained into the Church of England, obtaining a living at North Fambridge, near Maldon, Essex, in 1703...
(1662–1715)
- Bunge - Alexander Andrejewitsch von Bunge (1803–1890)
- Burb. - Frederick William Burbidge
Frederick William Thomas Burbidge was a British explorer who collected many rare tropical plants for the famous Veitch Nurseries. Burbidge's first job was as a gardener at Kew Gardens...
(1847–1905)
- Burbank - Luther Burbank
Luther Burbank was an American botanist, horticulturist and a pioneer in agricultural science.He developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank's varied creations included fruits, flowers, grains, grasses, and vegetables...
(1849–1926)
- Burch. - 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)
- Burdet - Hervé Maurice Burdet (born 1939)
- Bureau - Louis Édouard Bureau
Louis Édouard Bureau was a French physician and botanist.Bureau began his medical studies in Nantes in 1848, where he held the post of director of the Muséum de Nantes . He completed his medical degree in Paris in 1852...
(1830–1918)
- Burgess - Henry W. Burgess (fl. 1827-1833)
- Burm. - Johannes Burman
Johannes Burman , was a Dutch botanist and physician.Johannes Burman was the eldest son of the theologian Frans Burman and his wife Elizabeth Thierens. His brother was the theologian Frans Burman...
(1707–1779)
- Burm.f. - Nicolaas Laurens Burman
Nicolaas Laurens Burman was a Dutch botanist.He was the son of Johannes Burman . He succeeded his father to the chair of botany at the University of Amsterdam., and at the Hortus Botanicus. He continued the correspondence with Carolus Linnaeus, joining him at the University of Uppsala in 1760...
(1734–1793)
- Burnat - Émile Burnat
Émile Burnat was a Swiss botanist born in Vevey.He began herborizing while still in his teens, and later worked at the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques in Geneva. He is remembered for his studies of flora found in the Maritime Alps...
(1828-1920)
- Burret - Max Burret
Karl Ewald Maximilian Burret, commonly known as Max Burret was a German botanist.Burret was born in Saffig near Andernach in the Prussian Rhine Province. He originally studied law at Lausanne and Munich at the instigation of his father...
(1883–1964)
- Burrill - Thomas Jonathan Burrill
Thomas Jonathan Burrill was an American botanist who first discovered bacterial causes for plant disease. Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, he graduated Illinois State Normal University in 1865...
(1839–1916)
- Bush - Benjamin Franklin Bush (1858–1937)
- Buxb. - Franz Buxbaum
Franz Buxbaum was an Austrian botanist, specialising in cacti. Neobuxbaumia is named after him.- References :...
(1900–1979)
C
- Cabrera - Angel Lulio Cabrera (1908–1999)
- C.Abel - Clarke Abel
Clarke Abel was a British surgeon and naturalist.Abel accompanied Lord Amherst on his trip to China in 1816 as the expedition naturalist...
(1789-1826)
- C.A.Clark - Carolyn A. Clark (fl. 1979)
- C.Agardh - Carl Adolph Agardh
Carl Adolph Agardh was a Swedish botanist specializing in algae, who was eventually appointed bishop of Karlstad....
(1785–1859)
- C.A.Gardner - Charles Austin Gardner (1896–1970)
- Cajander - Aimo Cajander
Aimo Kaarlo Cajander was, outside of botany, best known as Prime Minister of Finland up to the Winter War ....
(1879–1943)
- Calder - James Alexander Calder (1915–1990)
- Caley - George Caley
George Caley was an English botanist and explorer in Australia.-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...
(1770–1829)
- Calzada - Juan Ismael Calzada
Dr Juan Ismael Calzada is a Mexican botanist and collector employed at the National Autonomous University of Mexico . Dr Calzada is credited with the discovery of the elm Ulmus ismaelis, named in his honour.- Partial works :...
(fl. 1997)
- Cambage - Richard Hind Cambage
Richard Hind Cambage was an Australian surveyor and botanist who made important contributions to the description of the genera Acacia and Eucalyptus.-Early life:...
(1859–1928)
- Cambess. - 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)
- C.A.Mey. - Carl Anton von Meyer
Carl Anton Andreevic von Meyer was a Russian botanist and explorer.Meyer took part in expeditions, including one to the Altay Mountains with Karl Friedrich von Ledebour and Alexander G. von Bunge in 1826-27. He was the director of the botanical gardens at Saint Petersburg from 1850 to 1855....
(1795–1855)
- Camp - Wendell Holmes Camp (1904–1963)
- Campb. - Douglas Houghton Campbell
Douglas Houghton Campbell was an American botanist.Campbell was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. He graduated from Detroit High School in 1878, going on to study at the University of Michigan. He studied botany, learning new microscopy techniques, and becoming interested in cryptogramic ferns...
(1859–1953)
- Canby - William Marriott Canby (1831–1904)
- Capuron - René Paul Raymond Capuron
René Paul Raymond Capuron was a French botanist. Capuron was responsible for an extensive amount of work on the tree flora of Madagascar.- Works :Highlights of his work include:* M...
(1921–1971)
- Caro - José Aristide Caro (1919–1985)
- Carrière - Elie-Abel Carrière
Élie-Abel Carrière was a French botanist, based in Paris. He was a leading authority on conifers in the period 1850-1870, describing many new species, and the new genera Tsuga, Keteleeria and Pseudotsuga. His most important work was the Traité Général des Conifères, published in 1855, with a...
(1818–1896)
- Carruth. - William Carruthers
William Carruthers was a British botanist.Carruthers was keeper of the Botanical Department at the Natural History Museum from 1871 to 1895. He was elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1871....
(1830–1922)
- Carver - George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver , was an American scientist, botanist, educator and inventor whose studies and teaching revolutionized agriculture in the Southern United States...
(1864–1943)
- Casar. - Giovanni Casaretto (1812–1879)
- C.A.Sm. - Christo Albertyn Smith
Christo Albertyn Smith was a South African botanist....
(1898–1956)
- Casp. - Johann Xaver Robert (1818–1887)
- Cass. - Alexandre Henri Gabriel de Cassini (1781–1832)
- Cav. - Antonio José Cavanilles
Antonio José Cavanilles was a leading Spanish taxonomic botanist of the 18th century. He named many plants, particularly from Oceania, his name is abbreviated as Cav...
(1745–1804)
- Cavara - Fridiano Cavara (1857–1929)
- C.Bab. - Churchill Babington
Churchill Babington was an English classical scholar and archaeologist, born at Rothley Temple, in Leicestershire....
(1821–1889)
- C.Bauhin - Gaspard Bauhin
Gaspard Bauhin, or Caspar Bauhin , was a Swiss botanist who wrote Pinax theatri botanici , which described thousands of plants and classified them in a manner that draws comparisons to the later binomial nomenclature of Linnaeus...
(1560–1624)
- C.B.Clarke - Charles Baron Clarke
Charles Baron Clarke was a British botanist.Clarke was Inspector of Schools in Eastern Bengal and later of India, and superintendent of the Calcutta Botanical Gardens. He was president of the Linnean Society from 1894 to 1896, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1882....
(1832–1906)
- C.B.Rob. - Charles Budd Robinson (1871–1913)
- C.C.Berg - Cornelis Christiaan Berg (born 1934)
- C.C.Gmel. - Carl Christian Gmelin (1762–1837)
- C.Chr. - Carl Frederick Albert Christensen (1872–1942)
- C.Clark - James Curtis Clark (born 1951)
- C.DC. - Anne Casimir Pyrame de Candolle
Anne Casimir Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist, the son of Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle....
(1836–1918)
- C.E.Hubb. - Charles Edward Hubbard (1900–1980)
- Čelak. - Ladislav Josef Čelakovský
Ladislav Josef Čelakovský was a Czech botanist who was born in Prague. He was the son of writer František Ladislav Čelakovský, and father to mycologist Ladislav František Čelakovský ....
(1834–1902)
- Cerv. - Vicente de Cervantes (1755–1829)
- Ces. - Vincenzo de Cesati
Vincenzo de Cesati was an Italian botanist who was a native of Milan.He studied natural history and law at the University of Vienna, and afterwards worked as a volunteer at the Collegium Nacionale de Vercelli. From 1868 to 1883 he was director of the botanical garden at Naples...
(1806–1883)
- Cesalpino - Andrea Cesalpino
Andrea Cesalpino was an Italian physician, philosopher and botanist....
(1519–1603)
- C.F.Reed - Clyde Franklin Reed (1918–1999)
- Chaix - Dominique Chaix (1730–1799)
- Cham. - Adelbert von Chamisso
Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...
(1781–1838)
- Chapm. - Alvan Wentworth Chapman
Alvan Wentworth Chapman was an American physician and botanist who wrote Flora of the Southern United States, the first comprehensive description of US plants in any region beyond the northeastern states.-Education:...
(1809–1899)
- Chase - Mary Agnes Chase (1869–1963)
- Châtel. - Jean Jacques Châtelain (1736–1822)
- Chaub. - Louis Athanase Chaubard (1785–1854)
- Chenault - Léon Chenault (1853–1930)
- Chiov. - 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)
- Chodat - Robert Hippolyte Chodat
Robert Hippolyte Chodat was a Swiss botanist and phycologist who was a professor and director of the botanical institute at the University of Geneva....
(1865–1934)
- Choisy - Jacques Denys Choisy (1799–1859)
- Chopinet - R.G. Chopinet (born 1914)
- Christian - Hugh Basil Christian (1871–1950)
- Christoph. - Erling Christophersen (born 1898)
- Chrtek- Jindřich Chrtek (born 1930)
- C.K.Schneid. - Camillo Karl Schneider
Camillo Karl Schneider was an Austrian botanist and landscape architect . A farmer's son, he was born at Gröppendorf, Saxony, and worked as a gardener at Zeitz, Dresden, Berlin and Greifswald...
(1876–1951)
- Clairv. - Joseph Philippe de Clairville
Joseph Philippe de Clairville was a notable Swiss botanist and entomologist. De Clairville’s collection of Coleoptera, his chief interest, is in the Natural History Museum in Basel. He was also interested in Diptera and Odonata....
(1742–1830)
- Claus - Karl Ernst Claus (1796–1894)
- C.L.Hitchc. - Charles Leo Hitchcock (1902–1986)
- Clus. - Charles de l'Écluse
Charles de l'Écluse, L'Escluse, or Carolus Clusius , seigneur de Watènes, was the Flemish doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most influential of all 16th century scientific horticulturists....
(1526–1609)
- Clute - Willard Nelson Clute (1869–1950)
- C.L.Woodw. - Catherine L. Woodward (fl. 2007)
- C.Mohr - Charles Theodore Mohr (1824–1901)
- C.Morren - Charles François Antoine Morren
Charles François Antoine Morren , was a Belgian botanist and horticulturist, and Director of the Jardin botanique de l’Université de Liège....
(1807–1858)
- C.Nelson - Cirilo Nelson (alternative name: Cyril Hardy Nelson Sutherland) (born 1938)
- C.N.Forbes - Charles Noyes Forbes
-Biography:Forbes was born in Boylston, Massachusetts on 24 September 1883. When he was at the University of California he worked as a cadet for the emergency service during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. From 1908 to 1920 he was curator of Botany at the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu...
(1883–1920)
- Cogn. - Alfred Cogniaux
Alfred Celestin Cogniaux was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
(1841–1916)
- Colebr. - Henry Thomas Colebrooke
Henry Thomas Colebrooke was an English orientalist.-Biography:Henry Thomas Colebrooke, third son of Sir George Colebrooke, 2nd Baronet, was born in London. He was educated at home; and when only fifteen he had made considerable attainments in classics and mathematics...
(1765–1837)
- Colla - Luigi Aloysius Colla
Luigi Aloysius Colla was an Italian botanist of the late 18th and early 19th Centuries. He was a member of the Provisional Government of Savoy from December 12, 1798 to April 2, 1799, taking his turn as chairman of the government in rotation for a ten-day term...
(1766–1848)
- Collad. - Louis Théodore Frederic Colladon (1792–1862)
- Collett - Henry Collett
Sir Henry Collett was an army officer in the East India Company and botanist.Collett was born in Thetford, Norfolk and studied at Tonbridge School and at Addiscombe College. He entered the Bengal army in 1855, rising through the ranks to become a lieutenant-colonel in 1879...
(1836–1901)
- Collinson - Peter Collinson (1694–1768)
- Comm. - Philibert Commerçon
Dr. Philibert Commerçon was a French naturalist, best known for accompanying Louis Antoine de Bougainville on his voyage of circumnavigation in 1766–1769.- Background :...
(1727–1773)
- Conrad - Solomon White Conrad (1779–1831)
- Conran - John Godfrey Conran (born 1960)
- Constance - Lincoln Constance (1909–2001)
- Cooke - Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke was an English botanist and mycologist.Cooke came from a mercantile family in Horning, Norfolk, and worked as an apprentice to a fabric merchant before becoming a clerk in a law firm, but his chief interest was in botany. He founded the Society of Amateur Botanists in 1862...
(1825–1914)
- Cookson - Isabel Clifton Cookson
Isabel Clifton Cookson was an Australian botanist who specialised in palaeobotany and palynology.Cookson was born at Hawthorn, Victoria, and attended the Methodist Ladies' College at Kew where she gained honours in anatomy, physiology and botany in the senior public examination...
(1893–1973)
- Cooperr. - Tom Smith Cooperrider (born 1927)
- Corner - Edred John Henry Corner
Edred John Henry Corner was a botanist who occupied the posts of assistant director at the Singapore Botanic Gardens and Professor of Tropical Botany at the University of Cambridge ....
(1906–1996)
- Correll - Donovan Stewart Correll (1908–1983)
- Cortesi - Fabrizio Cortesi
Fabrizio Cortesi was anItalian botanist.He collected in Italy and Ethiopia.He was the third Conservator of the Orto Botanico dell'Università di Catania, following Peter Romualdo Pirotta and Emilio Chiovenda....
(1879–1949)
- Core - Earl Lemley Core
Earl Lemley Core was a botanist and botanical educator, researcher and author as well as a local historian. He was founder of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club and editor of its journal, Castanea, for thirty-five years. He was a teacher and professor at West Virginia University for over...
(1902-1984)
- Cory - Victor Louis Cory (1880–1964)
- Coss. - Ernest Saint-Charles Cosson (1819–1889)
- Cotton - Arthur Disbrowe Cotton
-Publications:*Cotton, A.D. . Notes on marine pyrenomycetes. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 3: 92-99, 1 plate.*Cotton, A.D. . Cryptogams from the Falkland Islands collected by Mr Vallentin. Journal of the Linnean Society Botany 43: 137-231, tabs 4-10.-Associations:British...
(1879–1962)
- Coult. - Thomas Coulter
Thomas Coulter , of Dundalk, was an Irish physician, botanist, and explorer. He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy, and a fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, where he founded the college's herbarium....
(1793–1843)
- Courtec. - Régis Courtecuisse (born 1956)
- Coville - Frederick Vernon Coville
Frederick Vernon Coville was an American botanist who careered in the United States Department of Agriculture , where he became Chief Botanist, and was the first director of the United States National Arboretum...
(1867–1937)
- C.Presl - Carl Borivoj Presl (1794–1852)
- C.P.Sm. - Charles Piper Smith (1877–1955)
- Cranfill - Raimond Cranfill (fl. 1981)
- Crantz - Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz
Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz was a botanist and a physician.He obtained his doctorate of medicine in Vienna in 1750...
(1722–1799)
- C.R.Ball - Carleton Roy Ball (1873–1958)
- Crép. - Francois Crépin
François Crépin was an important botanist of the 19th century and director of the National Botanic Garden of Belgium....
(1830–1903)
- Crins - William J. Crins (born 1955)
- C.Rivière - Charles Marie Rivière (born 1845, date of death unknown)
- 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)
- Cronquist - Arthur John Cronquist (1919–1992)
- C.R.Parks - Clifford R. Parks (fl. 1963)
- Crundw. - Alan Crundwell
Alan Cyril Crundwell was a British bryologist, known for categorizing approximately 20 species of bryophytes, around six of which were previously unknown to science. He spent most of his professional life at the University of Glasgow....
(1923–2000)
- C.Tul. - Charles Tulasne
Charles Tulasne was a French physician and mycologist who was born in Langeais in the departement of Indre-et-Loire. He received his medical doctorate in 1840 and practiced medicine in Paris until 1854. Afterwards he worked with his older brother Louis René Tulasne in the field of mycology...
(1816–1884)
- C.T.White - Cyril Tenison White
Cyril Tenison White was an Australian botanist.White was born in Brisbane to Henry White, a trade broker, and Louisa nee Bailey...
(1890–1950)
- Cufod. - Georg Cufodontis (1896–1974)
- Curtis - William Curtis
William Curtis was an English botanist and entomologist, who was born at Alton, Hampshire.Curtis began as an apothecary, before turning his attention to botany and other natural history. The publications he prepared effectively reached a wider audience than early works on the subject had intended...
(1746–1799)
- C.V.Morton - Conrad Vernon Morton
Conrad Vernon Morton was an American botanist who did notable writings on Ferns. He was also a specialist in Gesneriaceae and Solanaceae for the Smithsonian Institution from 1928.- Publications :...
(1905–1972)
- C.Wright - Charles Wright
Charles Wright was an American botanist.Wright was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, the son of James Wright and Mary nee Goodrich. He studied classics and mathematics at Yale, and in October 1835 moved to Natchez, Mississippi to tutor a plantation owner's family...
(1811–1885)
- C.Y.Wang - Chang Yong Wang
- Czern. - Vassilii Matveievitch Czernajew (1796–1871)
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- Dahl - Anders Dahl
Anders Dahl was a Swedish botanist and student of Carolus Linnaeus. The dahlia flower is named after him .In 1770, Dahl entered Uppsala University as a freshman ....
(1751–1789)
- Dahlst. - Gustav Adolf Hugo Dahlstedt
Gustav Adolf Hugo Dahlstedt was a Swedish botanist who worked at the Bergianska Trädgården and Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet in Stockholm. In 1907 he achieved his honorary doctorate....
(1856–1934)
- Dallim. - 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)
- Dalzell - Nicol Alexander Dalzell (1817-1877)
- Dalziel - John McEwan Dalziel (1872-1948)
- Dandy - James Edgar Dandy (1903–1976)
- Darl. - William Darlington
William Darlington was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.William Darlington was born in Birmingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania. He attended Friends School at Birmingham and spent his youth on a farm...
(1782-1863)
- D.Arora - David Arora
David Arora is an American mycologist, naturalist, and writer. He is the author of two popular mushroom field guides, Mushrooms Demystified and All That the Rain Promises and More.......
(born 1957)
- Darbysh. - S.J.Darbyshire (born 1953)
- Darwin - Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors, through the process he called natural selection...
(1809–1882)
- D.A.Sutton - David A. Sutton (born 1952)
- Daubs - Edwin Horace Daubs (fl. 1965)
- Daveau - Jules Alexandre Daveau (1852–1929)
- Davenp. - George Edward Davenport (1833–1907)
- Davey - Frederick Hamilton Davey
Frederick Hamilton Davey was an amateur botanist who devoted most of his leisure time to the study of the flora of Cornwall. He was born at Ponsanooth in the Kennall Vale, Cornwall to a large family of limited means, he left school aged 11 to work in the Kennall Powder Mills. Encouraged by his...
(1868–1915)
- David - Armand David
Father Armand David was a Lazarist missionary Catholic priest as well as a zoologist and a botanist....
(1826–1900)
- DC. - Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778–1841)
- D.C.Eaton - Daniel Cady Eaton
Daniel Cady Eaton was an American botanist and author. He gained his bachelor's degree at Yale University, then went on to Harvard University where he studied with Asa Gray. He then went back to Yale where he was a botany professor and herbarium curator.He also worked in Utah, contributing to the...
(1834–1895)
- D.Dietr. - David Nathaniel Dietrich (1799–1888)
- D.D.Keck - David D. Keck
David Daniel Keck was an American botanist who was notable for his work on angiosperm taxonomy and genetics.Keck was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He completed undergraduate studies at Pomona College in 1925 and was awarded a Ph.D. in botany from the University of California in 1930...
(1903–1995)
- D.Don - David Don
David Don was a Scottish botanist,David Don was born on December 21, 1799, at Doo Hillock, Forfarshire, Scotland...
(1799–1841)
- de Bary - Anton de Bary
Heinrich Anton de Bary was a German surgeon, botanist, microbiologist, and mycologist ....
(1831–1888)
- Decne. - 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)
- Degen - Àrpàd von Degen (1866–1934)
- Delahouss. - A. James Delahoussaye (fl. 1967)
- Delavay - Pierre Jean Marie Delavay
Père Jean Marie Delavay was a French missionary, explorer and botanist.He was sent to China in 1867, serving first in Guangdong, then moving to Kunming, Yunnan, where he remained until his death....
(1834–1895)
- Deless. - Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert
Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert was a French banker and naturalist.He was born at Lyon, the son of Étienne Delessert , the founder of the first fire insurance company and the first discount bank in France...
(1773–1847)
- Delile - Alire Raffeneau Delile
Alire Raffeneau Delile was a French botanist.He participated in Napoleon Bonaparte's Egypt Campaign where he described Lotus and Papyrus. He is the author of the botanical sections of Travel in Lower and Upper Egypt by Dominique Vivant.-References:*Source:...
(1778–1850)
- Denis - Marcel Denis (1897–1929)
- De Puydt - Paul Émile de Puydt
Paul Émile de Puydt , a writer whose contributions included work in botany and economics, was born and died in Mons, Belgium.As a botanist, he notably wrote on orchids...
(1810–1891)
- Desf. - 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)
- De Smet - Louis De Smet (1813–1887)
- Desr. - Louis Auguste Joseph Desrousseaux (1753–1838)
- Desv. - Nicaise Auguste Desvaux
-Works:*Journal de Botanique, appliquée à l'Agriculture, à la Pharmacie, à la Médecine et aux Arts .*Observations sur les plantes des environs d'Angers ....
(1784–1856)
- De Vis - Charles Walter De Vis
Charles Walter De Vis , known as Devis before about 1882, was an English zoologist and ornithologist...
(1829–1915)
- de Vos - Cornelis de Vos (1806–1895)
- de Vries - Hugo de Vries
Hugo Marie de Vries was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists. He is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering the laws of heredity in the 1890s while unaware of Gregor Mendel's work, for introducing the term "mutation", and for developing a mutation theory of...
(1848–1935)
- de Vriese - Willem Hendrik de Vriese
Willem Hendrik de Vriese was a Dutch botanist and physician born in Oosterhout, North Brabant.He studied medicine at the University of Leiden, earning his doctorate in 1831. Afterwards he practiced medicine in Rotterdam, where he also gave classes in botany at the medical school...
(1806–1862)
- de Wet - Johannes Martenis Jacob de Wet (born 1927)
- Dewey - Chester Dewey
Chester Dewey was an American scientist. He was born in Sheffield, Mass., and, graduating from Williams College in 1806, was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy there from 1810 to 1827. From 1850 until 1860 he was professor of chemistry and natural philosophy in the University of...
(1784–1867)
- De Wild. - Émile Auguste Joseph De Wildeman (1866–1947)
- D.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, mangos, nectarines, dates, bamboos, and flowering cherries...
(1869–1954)
- D.H.Scott - Dukinfield Henry Scott
Dukinfield Henry Scott was a British botanist.Born in London, he was president of the Linnean Society from 1908 to 1912.He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1916....
(1854–1934)
- Dieck - Georg Dieck (1847–1925)
- Diels - Friedrich Ludwig Emil Diels
Dr. Friedrich Ludwig Emil Diels , was a German botanist.Diels was born in Hamburg, the son of the classical scholar Hermann Alexander Diels. From 1900 to 1902 he traveled together with Ernst Pritzel through South Africa, Java, Australia and New Zealand. Shortly before the first world war he...
(1874–1945)
- Dill. - Johann Jacob Dillenius
Johann Jakob Dillen was a German botanist.Dillen was born at Darmstadt and was educated at the University of Giessen, where he wrote several botanical papers for the Ephemerides naturae curiosorum, and printed, in 1719, his Catalogus plantarum sponte circa Gissam nascentium, illustrated with...
(1684–1747)
- Dippel - Leopold Dippel (1827–1914)
- D.L.Jones - David Lloyd Jones (born 1944)
- D.Löve - Doris Benta Maria Löve (1918–2000)
- Dode - Louis-Albert Dode (1875–1943)
- Dodoens - Rembert Dodoens
Rembert Dodoens was a Flemish physician and botanist, also known under his Latinized name Rembertus Dodonaeus....
(1517–1585)
- Döll - Johann Christoph Döll (1808–1885)
- Domke - Friedrich Walter Domke (1899-1988)
- Donn - James Donn
James Donn was an English botanist. He was Curator of the Cambridge University Botanic Gardens, Cambridge, from 1790 until his death. His most important work was Hortus Cantabrigensis, first published in 1796 but with several later, much expanded, editions.James Donn was an English botanist...
(1758–1813)
- Donn.Sm. - John Donnell Smith
Captain John Donnell Smith of Baltimore, Maryland was a biologist and taxonomist.In January 1906, he presented his herbarium consisting of more than 100,000 mounted specimens and his botanical library of over 1600 bound volumes to the Smithsonian Institution. The books pertain mostly to the...
(1829–1928)
- Door. - Simeon Gottfried Albert Doorenbos (1891–1980)
- Douglas - David Douglas
David Douglas was a Scottish botanist. He worked as a gardener, and explored the Scottish highlands, North America, and Hawaii, where he died.-Early life:...
(1798–1834)
- Doweld - Alexander Borissovitch Doweld (born 1973)
- Dowell - Philip Dowell (1864–1936)
- Drake - 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Drude - Carl Georg Oscar Drude
Carl Georg Oscar Drude was a German botanist....
(1852–1933)
- Dryand. - Jonas Carlsson Dryander
Jonas Carlsson Dryander was a Swedish botanist.Dryander was born in Gothenburg. He was a pupil of Carolus Linnaeus at Uppsala University. He arrived in London on 10 July 1777...
(1748–1810)
- D.Thomas - David Thomas
-Arts:* Dave Thomas , Canadian actor and comedian* David A. Thomas, voice actor* David Thomas , Welsh composer* David Thomas , American singer, songwriter, and musician, member of group Pere Ubu...
(1776–1859)
- Duby - Jean Étienne Duby (1798–1885)
- Duchesne - Antoine Nicolas Duchesne (1747–1827)
- Ducke - Adolpho Ducke
Adolpho Ducke , also referred to as Adolfo Ducke, was a notable entomologist, botanist and ethnographer of Amazonia....
(1876–1959)
- Dufr. - Pierre Dufresne (1786–1836)
- Duggar - Benjamin Minge Duggar
Benjamin Minge Duggar was an American plant physiologist, born at Gallion, Hale County, Ala. He studied at several Southern schools, including Alabama Polytechnic Institute , and at Harvard, Cornell , and in Germany, Italy, and France...
(1872–1956)
- Dulac - Joseph Dulac (1827–1897)
- Dum.Cours. - Georges Louis Marie Dumont de Courset
George Louis Marie Dumont de Courset was a French botanist and agronomist. Born near Boulogne, he studied in Paris and showed an aptitude for music and drawing....
(1746–1824)
- 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)
- Dumort. - Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier
Barthélemy Charles Joseph, Baron Dumortier was a Belgian politician and botanist. Some consider him to be the true discoverer of cell division, although he is rarely credited as such-Works:...
(1797–1878)
- Dunal - Michel Felix Dunal
Michel Felix Dunal was a French botanist. He was professor of botany in Montpellier, France. He held the chair of Medical Natural History from 1816 to 1819...
(1789–1856)
- Dunn - Stephen Troyte Dunn (1868–1938)
- Durand - Elias (Elie) Magloire Durand
Elias Durand , born Élie Magloire Durand, was an eminent American pharmacist and botanist born in France....
(1794-1873)
- Durazz. - Antonio Durazz (fl. 1772)
- Durieu - Michel Charles Durieu de Maisonneuve
Michel Charles Durieu de Maisonneuve was a French soldier and botanist who was a native of Saint-Eutrope-de-Born in the department of Lot-et-Garonne....
(1796–1878)
- Du Roi - Johann Philipp du Roi (1741–1785)
- Duss - Antoine Duss
Antoine Düss was a Swiss botanist.Père Düss was born in Haslé, Switzerland, graduated from the Gymnasium in Luzern and enterted the Congregation du Saint-Esprit et du Saint-Coeur de Marie in Paris...
(1840–1924)
- Dyal - Sarah Creecie Dyal (born 1907)
- Dyer - William Turner Thiselton (Thistleton) Dyer (1843–1928)
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- Eames - Edwin Hubert Eames (1865–1948)
- Earle - Franklin Sumner Earle
Franklin Sumner Earle was an American mycologist. He was the first mycologist to work at the New York Botanical Garden, and was the author of The Genera of North American Gill Fungi ....
(1856–1929)
- E.A.Durand - Ernest Armand Durand (1872–1910)
- E.A.Sánchez - Evangelina A. Sánchez (b. 1934)
- Eaton - Amos Eaton
Amos Eaton was a scientist and educator in the Troy, New York area.Eaton attended Williams College; after graduating in 1799 he studied law in New York City and was admitted to the state bar in 1802. He practiced law in Catskill, New York until 1810, when he was jailed on charges of forgery...
(1776–1842)
- E.B.Alexeev - E. B. Alexeev (1946–1976)
- Eb.Fisch. - Eberhard Fischer
Eberhard Fischer is a West German sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid 1970s. He won two silver medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, earning them 1971 and 1973 ....
(b. 1969)
- Ebinger - John Edwin Ebinger (born 1933)
- E.B.Knox - Eric B. Knox
Eric B. Knox is currently a Research Scientist at the Indiana University Biology Departmentand the Director of the Indiana University Herbariumwhere he optimizes laboratory protocols and studies the flora of Indiana....
(fl. 1993)
- Eckl. - 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)
- E.C.Nelson - Ernest Charles Nelson
Ernest Charles Nelson is a botanist who specialises in the Proteaceae family, especially the Adenanthos genus; and the Ericaceae, especially Erica. He is the author of over 20 books and more than 150 research papers...
(born 1951)
- Eddy - Caspar Wistar Eddy (1790–1828)
- Edgew. - Michael Pakenham Edgeworth
Michael Pakenham Edgeworth was an Irish botanist who specialized in seed plants and ferns, and spent most of his life, and all of his work, in India.-Early life and family relations:...
(1812-1881)
- E.Fourn. - Eugène Pierre Nicolas Fournier (1824–1884)
- E.G.Andrews - E. G. Andrews (fl. 1993)
- Eggl. - Willard Webster Eggleston (1863–1935)
- Egli - Bernhard Egli (fl. 1990)
- E.Hitchc. - Edward Hitchcock
Edward Hitchcock was a noted American geologist and the third President of Amherst College .Born to poor parents, he attended newly-founded Deerfield Academy and in 1821 was ordained as a Congregationalist pastor. A few years later he left the ministry to become Professor of Chemistry and Natural...
(1793–1864)
- Ehrenb. - Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg , German naturalist, zoologist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist, was one of the most famous and productive scientists of his time.- Early collections :...
(1795–1876)
- Ehrend. - Friedrich Ehrendorfer (born 1927)
- Ehrh. - Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart
Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart was a German botanist, a pupil of Carolus Linnaeus at Uppsala University, and later Director of the Botanical Garden of Hannover, where he produced several major botanical works between 1780-1793. Ehrhart was the first author to use the rank of subspecies in botanical...
(1742–1795)
- Eichler - August Wilhelm Eichler
August Wilhelm Eichler, also known under his Latinized name, Augustus Guilielmus Eichler , was a German botanist who modified the classification system to better reflect the relationships between plants...
(1839–1887)
- Eichw. - Karl Eichwald
Karl Eduard von Eichwald was a Russian geologist and physician.Eichwald was a Baltic German born at Mitau in Courland...
(1795–1876)
- Eig - Alexander Eig
Alexander Eig was a botanist, one of the first plant researchers in Israel, head of department for Botanics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and co-founder of Jerusalem Botanical Gardens on Mount Scopus.-Life:Born in Schedrin near Minsk, he used to wander in the forests around and to join ...
(1894–1938)
- E.J.Butler - Edwin John Butler
Sir Edwin John Butler FRS was a plant pathologist in India and England, and director of the Imperial Mycological Institute. He was knighted in 1939.-Life and work:...
(1874–1943)
- E.J.Palmer - Ernest Jesse Palmer (1875-1962)
- E.L.Braun - Emma Lucy Braun
E. Lucy Braun was a prominent botanist, ecologist, and expert on the forests of the eastern United States.- Life :...
(1889–1971)
- Elliott - Stephen Elliott
Stephen Elliott was an American legislator, banker, educator, and botanist who is today remembered for having written one of the most important works in American botany. In several installments from 1816 to 1824, he published A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia. These were later...
(1771–1830)
- Elwes - Henry John Elwes
Henry John Elwes, FRS was a British botanist, entomologist, author, lepidopterist, naturalist, collector and traveller who became renowned for collecting specimens of lilies during trips to the Himalayas and Korea. He was the first person to receive the Victoria Medal of the Royal Horticultural...
(1846–1922)
- E.Mey. - 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)
- E.M.McClint. - Elizabeth May McClintock (born 1912)
- E.Morren - Charles Jacques Édouard Morren
Charles Jacques Édouard Morren , was a Belgian botanist, professor of botany and director of the Jardin botanique de l'Université de Liège from 1857-1886. His special field of study was the Bromeliaceae on which family he was the recognised authority...
(1833–1886)
- Emory - William Hemsley Emory (1811–1887)
- Endl. - Stephan Friedrich Ladislaus Endlicher (1804–1849)
- Engel - Franz Engel (fl. 1865)
- Engelm. - Georg Engelmann (1809–1884)
- Engl. - Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler (1844–1930)
- E.P.Bicknell - Eugene Pintard Bicknell
Eugene Pintard Bicknell was a US botanist and ornithologist.Bicknell's works include Review of the Summer Birds of Part of the Catskill Mountains and The Ferns and Flowering Plants of Nantucket ....
(1859–1925)
- Epling - Carl Epling
Carl Clawson Epling was an American botanist who is best known for being the major authority on the Lamiaceae of the Americas from the 1920s to the 1960s, but in his later years also developed an interest in genetics. After obtaining his Ph.D...
(1894–1968)
- E.P.Perrier - Eugène Pierre Perrier de la Bâthie (1825–1916)
- E.Pritz. - Ernst Georg Pritzel (1875-1948)
- Erdman - Kimball Stewart Erdman (born 1937)
- Ernst - Adolf Ernst
Adolf Ernst was a Prussian born scientist. Ernst settled in Venezuela in 1861, where he taught at the Central University of Venezuela...
(1832–1899)
- E.S.Anderson - Edgar Shannon Anderson (1897–1969)
- E.S.Burgess - Edward Sandford Burgess (1855–1928)
- E.Salisb. - Edward James Salisbury
Sir Edward James Salisbury, FRS , was an English botanist and economist. He was born in Harpenden, Hertfordshire and graduated in botany from University College London in 1905. In 1913, he obtained a D.Sc. with a thesis on fossil seeds and was appointed a senior lecturer at East London College...
(1886–1978)
- Eschsch. - Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz
Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz was a Russian Baltic German physician, botanist, zoologist and entomologist.Eschscholtz was born in Dorpat , Governorate of Estonia in the Russian Empire...
(1793–1831)
- E.Sheld. - Edmund Perry Sheldon (1869–1947)
- E.Small - Ernest Small (b. 1940)
- E.S.Steele - Edward Strieby Steele (1850–1942)
- Ettingsh. - Constantin von Ettingshausen
Constantin Freiherr von Ettingshausen was an Austrian geologist and botanist....
(1826–1897)
- Etl. - Andreas Ernst Etlinger (fl. 1777)
- Ewart - Alfred James Ewart
Alfred James Ewart, FRS, was an English-Australian botanist.Ewart was born in Toxteth Park, Liverpool, England, second son of Edmund Brown Ewart, B.A. and his wife, Martha née Williams. Alfred was educated at the Liverpool Institute and University College, Liverpool, Ewart graduated Ph.D. at...
(1872–1937)
- E.W.Berry - Edward W. Berry
Edward Wilber Berry was an American paleontologist and botanist, the principal focus of his research was paleobotany. Berry studied North and South American flora and published taxonomic studies with theoretical reconstructions of paleoecology and phytogeography. He started his scientific...
(1875–1945)
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- Fabr. - Philipp Conrad Fabricius (1714–1774)
- Falc. - Hugh Falconer
Hugh Falconer MD FRS was a Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist and paleoanthropologist. He studied the flora, fauna and geology of India, Assam and Burma, and was the first to suggest the modern evolutionary theory of punctuated equilibrium...
(1808–1865)
- F.Allam. - Frédéric-Louis Allamand
Frédéric-Louis Allamand was a Swiss botanist. Born in Payerne, Switzerland, he moved to Leiden, Netherlands in 1749 to live with his uncle, Jean-Nicolas-Sébastien Allamand , a professor in philosophy and mathematics at Leiden University, well known naturalist, member of the Royal Society and...
(1735–1803)
- Farrer - Reginald John Farrer
Reginald John Farrer , was a traveller and plant collector. He published a number of books, although is best known for My Rock Garden...
(1880–1920)
- Farw. - Oliver Atkins Farwell (1867–1944)
- Fassett - Norman Carter Fassett (1900–1954)
- Fawc. - William Fawcett
William Fawcett was a British botanist and coauthor of the Flora of Jamaica.Fawcett was Director of Public Gardens and Plantations in Jamaica from 1887 to 1908...
(1851–1926)
- Fée - Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fée
Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fée was a French botanist who was born in Ardentes, 7 November 1789, and died in Paris on 21 May 1874. He was the author of works on botany and mycology, practical and historical pharmacology, Darwinism, and his experiences in several regions of Europe.-Biography:Fée...
(1789–1874)
- F.E.Lloyd - Francis Ernst Lloyd (1868–1947)
- Fenzl - Edouard Fenzl (1808–1879)
- Fernald - Merritt Lyndon Fernald
Merritt Lyndon Fernald was an American botanist. In his time he was regarded as the most respected scholar of the taxonomy and phytogeography of the vascular plant flora of temperate eastern North America. He published more than 850 scientific papers and wrote and edited the seventh and eighth...
(1873–1950)
- Fern.-Vill. - Celestino Fernández-Villar (1838–1907)
- Ferry - René Joseph Justin Ferry (1845–1924)
- F.Heim - Frédéric Louis Heim (born 1869, date of death unknown)
- F.H.Lewis - Frank Harlan Lewis (born 1919)
- F.H.Wigg. - Friedrich Heinrich Wiggers (1746–1811)
- Fieber - Franz Xaver Fieber
Franz Xaver Fieber was a German botanist and entomologist.He was the son of Franz Anton Fieber and Maria Anna née Hantsehl. He studied economics, management science and modern languages at the Czech Technical University in Prague from 1824 to 1828...
(1807–1872)
- Fiori - Adriano Fiori (1865–1950)
- Fisch. - Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer
Friedrich Ernst Ludwig Fischer was a Russian botanist, born in Germany. He was director of the St Petersburg botanical garden from 1823 to 1850.In 1815, he was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences...
(1782–1854)
- F.J.A.Morris - F. John A. Morris (born 1869, date of death unknown)
- F.J.Herm. - Frederick Joseph Hermann (1906–1987)
- Flüggé - Johannes Flüggé
Johannes Flüggé was a German botanist and physician who was a native of Hamburg.He studied medicine and natural history at the Universities of Jena, Vienna and Göttingen, and in 1800 received his doctorate at the University of Erlangen...
(1775–1816)
- F.M.Bailey - Frederick Manson Bailey
Frederick Manson Bailey CMG was a botanist active in Australia, who made valuable contributions to the characterisation of the flora of Queensland.-Early life:...
(1827–1915)
- F.Michx. - François Andre Michaux
François André Michaux was a French botanist, son of André Michaux. He accompanied his father to the United States, and his Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique septentrionale contains the results of his explorations and gives an account of the distribution and the scientific...
(1770–1855)
- F.M.Knuth - Frederik Marcus Knuth
Frederik Marcus Knuth was a taxonomist especially known for the collection and classification of cactuses. He collected and described many new species.- References :...
(1904–1970)
- F.Muell. - Ferdinand von Mueller
Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, KCMG was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist.-Early life:...
(1825–1896)
- F.N.Meijer - Frans Nicholaas Meijer (Frank Meyer after 1908) (1875–1918)
- Focke - Wilhelm Olbers Focke
Wilhelm Olbers Focke was a medical doctor and botanist who in 1881 published a significant work on plant breeding entitled Die Pflanzen-Mischlinge, Ein Beitrag zur Biologie der Gewächse which briefly mentioned Gregor Mendel's discoveries on hybridization...
(1834–1922)
- Forbes - John Forbes
John Forbes may refer to:*John Forbes *John Forbes , Scottish theologian; one of the six "Aberdeen doctors"...
(1799–1823)
- Forrest - George Forrest
George Forrest was a Scottish botanist, who was one of the first explorers of China's then remote southwestern province of Yunnan, generally regarded as the most biodiverse province in the country....
(1873–1932)
- Forssk. - Peter Forsskål
Peter Forsskål, sometimes spelled Pehr Forsskål, Peter Forskaol, Petrus Forskål or Pehr Forsskåhl, was a Swedish explorer, orientalist and naturalist.-Early life:...
(1732–1763)
- Fortune - Robert Fortune
Robert Fortune was a Scottish botanist and traveller best known for introducing tea plants from China to India.- Travels and botanical introductions to Europe:Fortune was born in Kelloe, Berwickshire...
(1812–1880)
- Fosberg - Francis Raymond Fosberg
Francis Raymond "Ray" Fosberg was an American botanist. A prolific collector and author, he played a significant role in the development of coral reef and island studies.- History :...
(1908–1993)
- Foug. - Auguste Denis Fougeroux de Bandaroy (1732–1789)
- Fourc. - Henry Georges Fourcade (1865–1948)
- Fr. - Elias Magnus Fries
Elias Magnus Fries was a Swedish mycologist and botanist.- Career :He was born at Femsjö in Småland as the son of a priest. In 1811 he entered Lund University where he took the doctorate in 1814. In the same year he was appointed an associate professorship in botany, and in 1824, became a full...
(1794–1878)
- Franch. - Adrien René Franchet
Adrien René Franchet was a French botanist, based at the Paris Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. He is noted for his extensive work describing the flora of China and Japan, based on the collections made by Armand David, Pierre Jean Marie Delavay, Paul Guillaume Farges and others....
(1834–1900)
- Freckmann - Robert W. Freckmann (born 1939)
- Freire-Fierro - Alina Freire-Fierro (born 1964)
- Frém. - John C. Frémont
John Charles Frémont , was an American military officer, explorer, the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States, and the first presidential candidate of a major party to run on a platform in opposition to slavery...
(1813–1890)
- Fresen. - Johann Baptist Georg Wolfgang 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)
- Frič - Alberto Vojtěch Frič
Alberto Vojtěch Frič was a famous Czech botanist, ethnographer, writer and explorer. He undertook 8 voyages to America, discovered, described and catalogued many species of cactus....
(1882–1944)
- Fritsch - Karl Fritsch
Karl Fritsch was an Austrian botanist. He was born in Vienna and educated mainly at the University of Vienna, obtaining his PhD degree in 1886 and his Habilitation in 1890. In 1900 he moved to the University of Graz as professor of Systematic Botany, where he built up the botanical institute...
(1864–1934)
- F.Ritter - Friedrich Ritter
Friedrich Ritter was a botanist who collected and described many species of cacti. Ritterocereus is named in his honour....
(1898–1989)
- Friis - Ib Friis (1945-)
- Friv. - Imre Frivaldszky
Dr Emerich Frivaldszky von Frivald was a Hungarian botanist and entomologist.-Biography:...
(1799–1870)
- Froel. - Joseph Aloys von Froelich (1766–1841)
- F.Rose - Francis Rose
Francis Rose MBE was an English field botanist and conservationist. He was an author, researcher and teacher. His ecological interests in Britain and Europe included bryophytes, fungi, higher plants, plant communities and woodlands.Rose was born in south London...
(1921-2006)
- F.Schmidt - Friedrich Carl Fedor Bogdanovich Schmidt (1862–1908)
- F.T.Hubb. - Frederic Tracy Hubbard (1875–1962)
- Fukuy. - Noriaki Fukuyama
Dr. Noriaki Fukuyama was a Japanese botanist and orchidologist. He died in TaiwanDuring his short life, Dr. Fukuyama described over a hundred new species of orchids from Micronesia, the Ryukyus and Taiwan. Most of the type specimens he collected were housed in his personal herbarium Dr. Noriaki...
(1912-1946)
- F.W.Schultz - Friedrich Wilhelm Schultz
Friedrich Wilhelm Schultz was a German pharmacist and botanist who was a native of Zweibrücken.He initially learned the pharmacy profession at his father's store in Zweibrücken. In 1827 be began studies in Munich, later performing post-doctoral work in Tübingen...
(1804–1876)
G
- Gaertn. - Joseph Gaertner
Joseph Gaertner was a German botanist.His major publication is De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum ....
(1732–1791)
- Gagnep. - François Gagnepain
François Gagnepain was a French botanist. The standard botanical author abbreviation Gagnep. is applied to plants described by Gagnepain....
(1866–1952)
- Gale - Shirley Gale (born 1915)
- Galeotti - Henri Guillaume Galeotti
Henri Guillaume Galeotti was a French-Belgian botanist and geologist of Italian parentage who was born in Paris. He specialized in the study of the family Cactaceae....
(1814-1858)
- Galushko - Anatol I. Galushko (born 1926)
- Gamble - James Sykes Gamble
James Sykes Gamble was an English botanist who specialized in the flora of the Indian sub-continent. The son of Harpur Gamble, M.D., he was educated at the Royal Naval School, New Cross, Magdalen College, Oxford, and the École nationale des eaux et forêts, Nancy...
(1847–1925)
- Gand. - Michel Gandoger
Abbott Jean Michel Gandoger , was a French botanist and mycologist.. Gandoger was born in Arnas, the son of a wealthy vineyard owner in the Beaujolais region. Although he took holy orders at the age of 26, he devoted his life to the study of botany, specializing in the genus Rosa...
(1850-1926)
- Gandhi - Kancheepuram N. Gandhi (born 1948)
- 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)
- Garden - Alexander Garden
Dr Alexander Garden is most famous as a botanist whose name lives on in the gardenia flower, though he was also a physician and zoologist...
(1730–1792)
- Gardner - George Gardner (1812–1849)
- Gatt. - Augustin Gattinger (1825–1903)
- Gaudich. - 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)
- G.C.Tucker - Gordon C. Tucker (born 1957)
- G.Dahlgren - Gertrud Dahlgren (born 1931)
- G.Don - George Don
George Don was a Scottish botanist.George Don was born at Doo Hillock, Forfarshire, Scotland on 17 May 1798. His father, also named George Don, was Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 1802. George was the elder brother of David Don, also a botanist. The younger George Don...
(1798–1856)
- Geh. - Adalbert Geheeb
Adalbert Geheeb was a German botanist specializing in mosses. The son of a pharmacist, he studied natural history as a pastime, and published extensively....
(1842–1909)
- G.E.Haglund - Gustaf Emmanuel Haglund (1900–1955)
- Genev. - Léon Gaston Genevier (1830–1880)
- 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...
(1903–1993)
- Gerstb. - Pedro Gerstberger (born 1951)
- Gesner - Conrad Gessner
Konrad Gessner was a Swiss naturalist and bibliographer. His five-volume Historiae animalium is considered the beginning of modern zoology, and the flowering plant genus Gesneria is named after him...
(1516–1565)
- Geyer - Karl Andreas Geyer
Karl Andreas Geyer was a German botanist who was a native of Dresden.As a teenager, Geyer worked as an apprentice-gardener in Zabeltitz, and in 1830 became an assistant at the botanical gardens in Dresden. From 1835 to 1844 he performed botanical studies on several expeditions within the United...
(1809–1853)
- G.F.Atk. - George Francis Atkinson (1854–1918)
- G.Forst. - Georg Forster
Johann Georg Adam Forster was a German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary. At an early age, he accompanied his father on several scientific expeditions, including James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific...
(1754–1794)
- G.Gaertn. - Gottfried Gaertner (1754–1825)
- Ghini - Luca Ghini
Luca Ghini was an Italian physician and botanist, notable as the creator of the first recorded herbarium, as well as the first botanical garden in Europe....
(1490–1556)
- Gibbs - Lilian Gibbs
Lilian Suzette Gibbs was a British botanist who worked for the British Museum in London. She was the first woman to ascend Mount Kinabalu in 1910. Gibbs collected many plants new to science, several of which are named in her honour ....
(1870–1925)
- Gilg - Ernest Friedrich Gilg
Ernest Friedrich Gilg was a German botanist.- Life :Gilg was curator of the Botanical Museum in Berlin...
(1867–1933)
- Gilib. - Jean-Emmanuel Gilibert (1741–1814)
- Gillek. - Léopold Guillaume Gillekens (1833–1905)
- Gillies - John Gillies
John Gillies , Scottish historian and classical scholar, was born at Brechin, in Forfarshire, on 18 January 1747. He was educated at the University of Glasgow, where, at the age of twenty, he acted for a short time as substitute for the professor of Greek. In 1784 he completed his History of...
(1792–1834)
- Gillis - William Thomas Gillis (1933–1979)
- Gilly - Charles Louis Gilly (1911–1970)
- Giseke - Paul Dietrich Giseke
Paul Dietrich Giseke , was a German botanist, physician, teacher and librarian.Giseke started his studies at the Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg. He joined the University of Göttingen in 1764 and graduated in 1767...
(1741-1796)
- G.Kirchn. - Georg Kirchner (1837–1885)
- G.Koch - Georg Friedrich Koch (1809–1874)
- G.Lawson - George Lawson
George Lawson was a Canadian botanist who is considered the "father of Canadian botany".Born in Scotland, in 1858, he was appointed the Professor of Chemistry and Natural History at Queen's University...
(1827–1895)
- G.L.Church - George Lyle Church (born 1903)
- Gleason - Henry Allan Gleason (1882–1975)
- G.L.Nesom - Guy L. Nesom (born 1945)
- G.Lodd. - George Loddiges (1784–1846)
- Gloxin - Benjamin Peter Gloxin
Benjamin Peter Gloxin was a German physician and botanical writer who lived in Colmar. He is commemorated by the Brazilian genus Gloxinia and Sinningia speciosa, which is commonly called Gloxinia in the horticulture trade....
(1765–1794)
- G.L.Webster - Grady Linder Webster (born 1927)
- G.M.Barroso - Graziela Maciel Barroso (1912–2003)
- G.Moore - George Thomas Moore
George Thomas Moore was a U.S. botanist, who specialised in phycology, the study of algae....
(1871–1956)
- G.Nicholson - George Nicholson (1847–1908)
- Godr. - Dominique Alexandre Godron
Dominique Alexandre Godron was a French physician and botanist who was born in the town of Hayange, in the département Moselle....
(1807–1880)
- Goeschke - Franz Goeschke
Franz Goeschke ; was a German horticulturist who was a lecturer and director at the school of horticulture in Proskau.His father, Gottlieb Göschke was also a noted horticulturalist....
(1844–1912)
- Goldberg - Aaron Goldberg (born 1917)
- Goldie - John Goldie
John Haviland Dashwood Goldie was an English rower, and barrister. He was the Cambridge University Boat Club President between 1870 and 1872, won the Colquhoun Sculls in 1870 and captained Leander Club between 1873 and 1876....
(1793–1886)
- Gooden. - Samuel Goodenough
The Reverend Samuel Goodenough was the Bishop of Carlisle from 1808 until his death in 1827, and an amateur botanist and collector. He is honoured in the scientific names of the plant genus Goodenia and the Red-capped Robin .-References:*...
(1743–1827)
- Goodyer - John Goodyer
John Goodyer , was a 17th century botanist, who lived in Hampshire, England. He was born in Alton, and evidently received a good education, although it is not known where...
(1592–1664)
- Gopalan - Rangasamy Gopalan (born 1947)
- Göpp. - Johann Heinrich Robert Göppert (1800–1884)
- Gordon - George Gordon
George Gordon was a British botanist, also taking part in the study of Geology and Naturalism. He attended Aberdeen University in 1815, aged only 14. He graduated four years later...
(1801–1893)
- Gould - Frank Walton Gould (1913–1981)
- G.Pearson - Gilbert Pearson
- Graebn. - Karl Otto Robert Peter Paul Graebner (1871–1933)
- Graham - Robert Graham
Robert Graham , born in Stirling, Scotland, was the inaugural chair of botany at the University of Edinburgh. He was also physician to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.He wrote descriptions of new and rare plants cultivated in the gardens...
(1786–1845)
- Grande - Loreto Grande (1878–1965)
- Gray - Samuel Frederick Gray
Samuel Frederick Gray was a British botanist and pharmacologist.Gray was the author of The Natural Arrangement of British Plants . He was the father of the zoologists John Edward Gray and George Robert Gray....
(1766–1828)
- Greene - Edward Lee Greene
Edward Lee Greene was an American botanist.In 1876–1877, while Greene was an episcopal priest in Yreka, California, he discovered the first specimens of Phlox hirsuta, a small flowering plant found only in that area...
(1843–1915)
- Greenm. - Jesse More Greenman (1867–1951)
- Greenway - Percy James Greenway (1897–1980)
- Gren. - Jean Charles Marie Grenier
Jean Charles Marie Grenier was a French botanist who was a professor of botany to the Faculty of Sciences at Besancon.Grenier is credited with the description of hundreds of botanical species, many of them in collaboration with Dominique Alexandre Godron , a professor of natural history at Nancy....
(1808–1875)
- Greuter - Werner Rodolfo Greuter (born 1938)
- Grev. - Robert Kaye Greville
Robert Kaye Greville was a Scottish mycologist, bryologist, and botanist. He was an accomplished artist and illustrator of natural history. In addition to science he was interested in political causes like abolitionism, capital punishment, keeping Sunday special and the temperance movement...
(1794-1866)
- Griff. - William Griffith
William Griffith was a British doctor, naturalist, and botanist.Griffith's botanical publications are from India and Burma. After a brief stay in Madras, he was assigned as a Civil Surgeon to Tenasserim, Burma, where he studied local plants and made collecting trips to the Barak River valley in...
(1810–1845)
- Grimm - Johann Friedrich Carl Grimm (1737–1821)
- Gris - Jean Antoine Arthur Gris
Jean Antoine Arthur Gris was a French botanist who was a native of Châtillon-sur-Seine, in the department of Côte-d'Or....
(1829–1872)
- Griscom - Ludlow Griscom
Ludlow Griscom was an American ornithologist known as a pioneer in field ornithology.Griscom was born in New York City, the son of Clement Acton Griscom and Genevieve Sprigg Ludlow. He was a protege of Frank Chapman, later working for Thomas Barbour at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative...
(1890–1959)
- Griseb. - August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach (1814–1879)
- Grolle - Riclef Grolle (1934–2004)
- Grossh. - Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim (1888–1948)
- Grubov - Valery Ivanovitsch Grubov (1917-2009)
- Grudz. - Irina Aleksandrovna Grudzinskaya
Irina Aleksandrovna Grudzinskaya was a Russian botanist who specialized in phanerogams; she at one stage worked in Cuba. -Publications:*Grudzinskaja, I. A. . Novosti sistematiki vysshikh rastenii. Moscow & Leningrad....
(born 1920)
- G.Shaw - George Shaw
George Shaw was an English botanist and zoologist.Shaw was born at Bierton, Buckinghamshire and was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, receiving his M.A. in 1772. He took up the profession of medical practitioner. In 1786 he became the assistant lecturer in botany at Oxford University...
(1751–1813)
- G.S.Mill. - Gerrit Smith Miller
Gerrit Smith Miller, Jr. was an American zoologist.He was born in Peterboro, New York in 1869. He graduated from Harvard University in 1894 and worked under Clinton Hart Merriam at the United States Department of Agriculture...
(1869–1956)
- Gueldenst. - Johann Anton Güldenstädt
Johann Anton Güldenstädt was a Baltic German naturalist and explorer in Russian service.Güldenstädt was born in Riga, then part of the Russian Empire, and studied medicine at the University of Frankfurt, obtaining his doctorate in 1767...
(1745–1781)
- Guill. - 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)
- Guillaumin - André Guillaumin
André Louis Joseph Edmond Armand Guillaumin is a French botanist who was born on 21 June 1885 in Arrou and died on 24 May 1974 in Athis-Mons. He obtained his license in natural sciences in 1906 and began work in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris in 1909 as a preparer...
(1885–1974)
- Gunckel - Hugo Gunckel Lűer
Hugo Gunckel Lüer was a Chilean pharmacist, botanist, and university professor.Gunckel is the ICBN author citation corresponding to Hugo Gunckel.-Life:Gunckel was born in Valdivia...
(1901–1997)
- Gunnerus - Johann Ernst Gunnerus (1718–1773)
- Guss. - Giovanni Gussone (1787–1866)
H
- Hack. - Eduard Hackel (1850–1926)
- Halácsy - Eugen von Halácsy
Eugen von Halácsy was an Austrian physician and botanist of Hungarian descent who was born in Vienna.In 1865 he obtained his medical doctorate in Vienna, and until 1896 was a general practitioner in Vienna. He is remembered for his three-volume synopsis on Greek flora called Conspectus florae...
(1842–1913)
- Ham. - William Hamilton (1783–1856)
- Hance - Henry Fletcher Hance
Henry Fletcher Hance was a British diplomat who devoted his spare time to the study of Chinese plants. Born in London, his first appointment was to Hong Kong in 1844; he later became vice-consul to Whampoa, consul to Canton, and finally consul to Xiamen, where he died in 1886. In 1873, Hance...
(1827–1886)
- Hand.-Mazz. - Heinrich R.E. Handel-Mazzetti (1882–1940)
- Hanst. - Johannes Ludwig Emil Robert von Hanstein
Johannes Ludwig Emil Robert von Hanstein was a German botanist who was a native of Potsdam.He attended classes at the Gärtnerlehranstalt in Potsdam, and later studied sciences in Berlin, attaining his doctorate in 1848...
(1822–1880)
- Hara - Kanesuke Hara (1885–1962)
- Harb. - Thomas Grant Harbison (1862–1936)
- Hardin - James Walker Hardin (born 1929)
- Harkn. - H. W. Harkness
Harvey Willson Harkness was an American mycologist and natural historian best known for his early descriptions of California fungal species. Born and raised in Massachusetts and trained as a physician, Harkness came to California during the Gold Rush in 1849...
(1821–1901)
- Harms - Hermann Harms
Hermann August Theodor Harms was a German taxonomist and botanist. In 1938 he revised the genus Nepenthes by creating three sub-genera: Anurosperma, Eunepenthes and Mesonepenthes...
(1870–1942)
- Hartm. - Carl Johan Hartman (1790–1849)
- Hartw. - Karl Theodor Hartweg
Karl Theodor Hartweg was a German botanist. He collected numerous new species of plants in Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico and California in the United States, collecting for the London Horticultural Society...
(1812–1871)
- Hartwig - August Karl Julius Hartwig (1823–1913)
- Harv. - William Henry Harvey
William Henry Harvey was an Irish botanist who specialised in algae. He was one of the most distinguished students of marine algae of all time.- Biography :...
(1811–1866)
- Harvill - Alton McCaleb Harvill, Jr (born 1916)
- Hassk. - Justus Carl Hasskarl (1811–1894)
- Hatus. - Sumihiko Hatusima
Sumihiko Hatsushima was a Japanese botanist. In scholarly works using the latin alphabet his name is generally romanised as "Sumihiko Hatusima" following the "Kunrei" system..Hatsushima was born in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan in 1906....
(1906-2008)
- Haufler - Christopher H. Haufler (born 1950)
- Hauke - Richard L. Hauke (born 1930)
- Hauman - Lucien Leon Hauman
Lucien Leon Hauman-Merck was a botanist and an author who studied and collected plants in Eastern Africa....
(1880–1965)
- Hauser - Margit Luise Hauser
- Hausskn. - Heinrich Carl Haussknecht
Heinrich Carl Haussknecht was a German pharmacist and botanical collector who was a native of Bennungen, Sachsen-Anhalt.Trained as a pharmacist, Haussknecht is remembered for his extensive collection and description of plant species...
(1838–1903)
- Haw. - 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)
- Hayata - Bunzō Hayata
Bunzō Hayata was a Japanese botanist noted for his taxonomic work in Japan and Formosa . He was a professor at the Imperial University of Tokyo and third director of the Research Botanical Gardens....
(1874–1934)
- Hayek - August von Hayek
August von Hayek was an Austrian botanist who was a native of Vienna. He was born as a son of Gustav von Hayek, and August was the father of economist Friedrich August von Hayek ....
(1871–1928)
- Hayne - Friedrich Gottlob Hayne (1763–1832)
- Hazsl. - Friedrich August Hazslinszky von Hazslin
Frigyes Ákos Hazslinszky or in German version of his name Friedrich August Hazslinszky von Hazslin was a Hungarian mycologist and botanist. Upon completing his lyceum studies in Késmark , he studied philosophy, law, theology and chemistry, working concurrently as a teacher...
(1818 – 1896)
- H.Bock - Hieronymus Bock
Hieronymus Bock , also seen as "Boch", also known under his latinised name Hieronymus Tragus, was a German botanist, physician, and Lutheran minister who began the transition from medieval botany to the modern scientific worldview by arranging plants by their relation or resemblance...
(1498–1554)
- H.Deane - Henry Deane
Henry Deane was an Australian engineer, responsible for electrifying the Sydney tramway system and for building the Newnes and the Trans-Australian Railways.- Biography :...
(1847–1924)
- H.D.Wilson - Hugh Wilson
Hugh Wilson is a New Zealand botanist.Wilson has written and illustrated a number of books about New Zealand plants. He currently manages the Hinewai Reserve on Banks Peninsula.-Selected bibliography:...
(born 1945)
- H.E.Ahles - Harry E. Ahles (1924–1981)
- Hedberg - Karl Olov Hedberg
Prof. Karl Olov Hedberg of Västeråsa botanist, taxonomist, author, professor of systematic botany at Uppsala University from 1970 to 1989 and an Editor of the Flora of Ethiopia; was updating the Umbelliferae manuscript when he died in 2007.He was a member of the British Mycological Society...
(1923–2007)
- Hedrick - Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick
Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick was an American botanistand horticulturistwho specialized in spermatophytes.His main interest was cultivated fruit trees and he published a number of volumes dealing with such fruits as cherries, grapes, plums, and peaches...
(1870–1951)
- Hedw. - Johann Hedwig
Johann Hedwig , also seen as Johannes Hedwig or Latinised as Joannis Hedwig, was a German botanist notable for his studies of mosses , in particular the observation of sexual reproduction in the cryptogams.He was born in Romania, and studied medicine at the University of Leipzig,...
(1730–1799)
- Hegelm. - Christoph Friedrich Hegelmaier
Christoph Friedrich Hegelmaier was a German physician and botanist who was a native of Sulzbach, Baden-Württemberg.In 1857 he earned his doctorate from the University of Tübingen, and later was a military doctor in Ulm...
(1833–1906)
- Heim - Georg Christoph Heim (1743–1807)
- Heist. - Lorenz Heister
Lorenz Heister was a German anatomist, surgeon and botanist born in Frankfurt am Main....
(1683–1758)
- Heldr. - Theodor Heinrich Hermann von Heldreich (1822–1902)
- Hell. - Carl Niclas Hellenius (1745–1820)
- Hellq. - C. Barre Hellquist (born 1940)
- H.E.Moore - Harold Emery Moore (1917–1980)
- Hemsl. - William Botting Hemsley
William Botting Hemsley was a British botanist and 1909 Victoria Medal of Honour recipient....
(1843–1924)
- Henn. - Paul Christoph Hennings (1841–1908)
- Henrard - Johannes Theodoor Henrard (1881–1974)
- Hensl. - John Stevens Henslow
John Stevens Henslow was an English botanist and geologist.Henslow was born at Rochester, the son of a solicitor John Prentis Henslow, who was the son of Sir John Henslow. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge where he graduated as 16th wrangler in 1818, the year in which Adam Sedgwick...
(1796–1861)
- Hepper - Frank Nigel Hepper (born 1929)
- Herb. - William Herbert
-Earls:*William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke *William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke *William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke *William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke...
(1778–1847)
- Herder - Ferdinand Gottfried Theobald Herder (1828–1896)
- Heybroek - Hans M. Heybroek
Dr. Hans M. Heybroek is a Dutch botanist best known for his researches into the genus Ulmus. The director of the Dorschkamp Research Institute for Forestry & Landscape Planning from 1954 until his retirement in 1992, he was responsible for the raising and release of numerous elm hybrid cultivars,...
- Heynh. - Gustav Heynhold (1800–1860)
- Heywood - Vernon Hilton Heywood (born 1927)
- H.G.Sm. - Henry George Smith
Henry George Smith was an Australian chemist whose pioneering work on the chemistry of the essential oils of the Australian flora achieved worldwide recognition....
(1852–1924)
- H.Hara - Hiroshi Hara (1911–1986)
- H.H.Eaton - Hezekiah Hulbert Eaton (1809–1832)
- Hieron. - Georg Hans Emmo Wolfgang Hieronymus (1846–1921)
- Hill - John Hill (1716–1775)
- Hirn - Karl Engelbrecht Hirn (1872–1907)
- Hitchc. - Albert Spear Hitchcock (1865–1935)
- H.Jaeger - Hermann Jäger
Hermann Jäger was a German botanist who specialized in medical botany. His Brummitt & Powell abbreviation unfortunately causes confusion with his contemporary, the oenologist Hermann Jaeger.-Publications:*Jäger, H. & Beissner...
(1815–1890)
- H.Karst. - Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten
Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten was a German botanist and geologist. Born in Stralsund, he followed the example of Alexander von Humboldt and traveled 1844-56 to the north of South America. He died 1908 in Berlin-Grunewald....
(1817–1908)
- H.Lév. - Augustin Abel Hector Léveillé (1863–1918)
- H.Low - Hugh Low
Hugh Low CMG, KCMG, GCMG was a British colonial administrator and naturalist. He was the first successful British administrator in the Malay Peninsula. His methods became models for future administrators. He made the first documented ascent of Mount Kinabalu in 1851...
(1824–1905)
- H.L.Späth - Hellmut Ludwig Späth
Hellmut Ludwig Späth was the son of Franz Ludwig Späth , who became owner and manager of the Späth nursery on the death of his father in 1913. Hellmut revived the nursery's fortunes during the Depression by joining the Nazi Party and obtaining lucrative landscaping contracts for the new autobahns...
(1885–1945)
- H.L.Wendl. - Heinrich Wendland
Heinrich Ludolph Wendland was a botanist who authored a number of Acacia species....
(1825–1903)
- H.Müll. - Heinrich Ludwig Hermann Müller (1829–1883)
- Hnatiuk - Roger James Hnatiuk
Roger James Hnatiuk is a Canadian-Australian botanist specialising in biogeography and plant ecology.- Background :Hnatiuk was awarded 1st class honours in botany from the University of Alberta, and went on to graduate with an MSc in plant ecology from the same institution. He was awarded a PhD in...
(born 1946)
- Hochr. - Bénédict Pierre Georges Hochreutiner
Bénédict Pierre Georges Hochreutiner was a Swiss botanist and plant taxonomist.- References :...
(1873–1959)
- Hochst. - 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)
- Hoehne - Frederico Carlos Hoehne (1882–1959)
- Hoffm. - George Franz Hoffmann (1761–1826)
- Hoffmanns. - Johann Centurius von Hoffmannsegg (1766–1849)
- Hogg - Thomas Hogg
Thomas Hogg may refer to:* Thomas Jefferson Hogg , British biographer* Thomas Elisha Hogg , teacher, lawyer, and educator, brother of Jim Hogg and uncle of Ima Hogg...
(1777–1855)
- Hohen. - Rudolph Friedrich Hohenacker
Rudolph Friedrich Hohenacker was a Swiss-German missionary and botanist who was a native Zürich.In the 1820s he was assigned to the Swabian colony of Helenendorf in the Transcaucasus, where he served as a doctor and missionary. Eventually, his main focus involved collecting plants from the region....
(1798–1874)
- Hollick - Charles Arthur Hollick (1857–1933)
- Holmgren - Hjalmar Josef Holmgren (1822–1885)
- Holub - Josef Ludwig Holub (1930–1999)
- Hook. - William Jackson Hooker
Sir William Jackson Hooker, FRS was an important 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...
(1785–1865)
- Hook.f. - 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 one of the founders of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
(1817–1911)
- Hopper - Stephen Hopper
Stephen Donald Hopper is a Western Australian botanist, specialising in conservation biology and vascular plants. He has written eight books, and has over 200 publications to his name. He was Director of Kings Park in Perth for seven years, and CEO of the Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority for five...
(born 1951)
- Horik. - Horikawa Yoshiwo (1902–1976)
- Hornem. - Jens Wilken Hornemann
Jens Wilken Hornemann was a Danish botanist. He was a lecturer at the University of Copenhagen Botanical Garden from 1801. After the death of Martin Vahl in 1804, the task of publishing the Flora Danica was given to Hornemann, who subsequently issued fasc. 22-39 with a total of 1080 plates.J.W...
(1770–1841)
- Host - Nicolaus Thomas Host
Nicolaus Thomas Host was an Austrian botanist, and the personal physician of Holy Roman Emperor Francis II....
(1761–1834)
- House - Homer Doliver House (1878–1949)
- Houtt. - Maarten Houttuyn
Maarten Houttuyn or Houttuijn , Latinised as Martinus Houttuyn, was a Dutch naturalist.Houttuyn was born in Hoorn, studied medicine in Leiden and moved to Amsterdam in 1753. He published many books on natural history. His areas of interest encompassed Pteridophytes, Bryophytes and Spermatophytes...
(1720–1798)
- Howe - Eliot Calvin Howe (1828–1899)
- Howell - Thomas Jefferson Howell (1842–1912)
- H.O.Yates - Harris Oliver Yates (born 1934)
- H.Perrier - Joseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie
Joseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie was a French botanist who specialized in the plants of Madagascar. He delineated the two chief floristic provinces of Madagascar...
(1873–1958)
- H.P.Fuchs - Hans Peter Fuchs (1928–1999)
- H.Rob. - Harold E. Robinson
Harold Ernest Robinson is an eminent botanist and an entomologist.-Career:Dr. Robinson's systematic knowledge encompasses many groups of plants and even some insects. But his real specialty is the sunflower family and the bryophytes...
(born 1932)
- H.Rock - Howard Francis Leonard Rock (1925–1964)
- H.Sharsm. - Helen Katherine Sharsmith
Helen Katherine Myers Sharsmith was an American biologist.-Biography:Helen Sharsmith was born 1905 in Oakland, California. She received an AB and MA from University of California, Berkeley in 1927 and 1928, then worked as a high school and junior college teacher...
(1905–1982)
- H.S.Irwin - Howard Samuel Irwin (born 1928)
- H.St.John - Harold St. John
Harold St. John was a professor of botany at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa from 1929 to 1958. A prolific specialist in field botany and systematics, he is credited with discovering about 500 new species of Pandanus, along with many other species, especially in the Pacific Islands.Born in...
(1892–1991)
- Hu - Hsen Hsu Hu (1894–1968)
- Huds. - William Hudson
William Hudson FRS was a British botanist and apothecary based in London. His main work was Flora Anglica, published in 1762. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1761.- Life and work :...
(1730–1793)
- Hügel - Karl Alexander Anselm von Hügel (1794–1870)
- Hultén - Oskar Eric Gunnar Hultén (1894–1981)
- Humb. - Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859)
- Hurus. - Isao Hurusawa (born 1916)
- Husn. - Pierre Tranquille Husnot (1840–1929)
- Hutch. - John Hutchinson
John Hutchinson was a renowned English botanist, taxonomist and author.-Life and career:Born in Blindburn, Wark on Tyne, Northumberland, England, he received his horticultural training in Northumberland and Durham and was appointed a student gardener at Kew in 1904...
(1884-1972)
- H.Vilm. - Charles Philippe Henry Lévêque de Vilmorin (1843–1899)
- H.Wendl. - Hermann Wendland
Hermann Wendland was a German botanist and gardener.He was a noted authority on the family Arecaceae , on which he published a major monograph which formed the basis for the modern classification of the family, including many of the generic names currently in use.The South American palm genus...
(1825–1903)
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- I.G.Stone - Ilma Grace Stone
Ilma Grace Stone , née Balfe, was an Australian botanist who specialised in bryology. She was an author, collector, and researcher of Australian mosses, a subject on which she lectured and wrote....
(1913–2001)
- Imbach - Emil J. Imbach (1897–1970)
- I.M.Johnst. - Ivan Murray Johnston
I. M. Johnston , was a United States botanist. He studied at Pomona College in Claremont, California and at Harvard University...
(1898–1960)
- Inoue - Inoue Hiroshi
Inoue Hiroshi is a Japanese botanist specializing in bryology. The standard botanical author abbreviation Inoue is applied to species he described....
(1932–1989)
- Irwin - James Bruce Irwin (born 1921)
- Isaac - Frances Margaret Leighton (later Isaac) (born 1909)
- Ives - Joseph Christmas Ives (1828–1868)
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- Jacq. - Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin or Baron Nikolaus von Jacquin. was a Dutch scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany....
(1727–1817)
- Jacques - Henri Antoine Jacques (1782–1866)
- J.Agardh - Jacob Georg Agardh
Jacob Georg Agardh was a Swedish botanist. He was the son of Carl Adolph Agardh.In 1849, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences....
(1813–1901)
- Jameson - William Jameson
William Jameson was a Scottish-Ecuadorian botanist. He was born in Edinburgh and studied at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He made several voyages as a ship's surgeon, first to Baffin Bay, then to South America. In 1826 he settled in Quito, Ecuador. He was then appointed professor of...
(1796–1873)
- Janch. - Erwin Emil Alfred Janchen (1882–1970)
- Jancz. - Edward Janczewski
Edward Janczewski was a Polish biologist , rector of the Jagiellonian University, and member of the Academy of Learning. He married Jadwiga Szetkiewicz .In 1862, Janczewski obtained a degree at Vilna...
(1846–1918)
- Janse - Johannes Albertus Janse (1911–1977)
- Játiva - Carlos D. Játiva
- J.Bauhin - Johann Bauhin
Johann Bauhin, or Jean Bauhin was a Swiss botanist.He studied botany at Tübingen under Leonhart Fuchs . He then travelled with Conrad Gessner, after which he started a practise of medicine at Basel, where he was elected Professor of Rhetoric in 1566...
(1541–1613)
- J.B.Nelson - John B. Nelson
John B. Nelson is an American Republican politician, former mayor of Phoenix, Arizona former member of the Arizona House of Representatives and a current member of the Arizona Senate....
(born 1951)
- J.B.Rohr - Julius Bernard von Röhr (1686-1742)
- J.Carey - John Carey
John Carey is the name of:* John Carey , United States Representative from Ohio* John Carey , a courtier to King Henry VIII* John Carey , British literary critic...
(1797–1880)
- J.C.Gomes - José Corrêa Gomes, Jr. (1919–1965)
- J.C.Siqueira - Josafá Carlos de Siqueira (born 1953)
- J.C.Wendl. - Johann Christoph Wendland
Johann Christoph Wendland was a German botanist and gardener who was a native of Petit-Landau, Alsace. His son- Heinrich Ludolph Wendland and his grandson- Hermann Wendland were also gardeners and botanists.As a young man he received an education in horticulture at the nursery of Karlsruhe Palace...
(1755–1828)
- J.D.Ray - James Davis Ray, Jr. (born 1918)
- J.Drumm. - James Drummond
James Drummond was a botanist and naturalist who was an early settler in Western Australia.-Early life:...
(1784–1863)
- J.D.Sauer - Jonathan Deininger Sauer (born 1918)
- Jefferies - R.L.Jefferies (fl. 1987)
- J.E.Lange - Jakob Emanuel Lange
Jakob Emanuel Lange , was a Danish mycologist who studied the systematics of gilled mushrooms.His most well-known work is Flora Agaricina Danica, a five-volume plate work on the Agaricales of Denmark....
(1864–1941)
- J.Ellis - John Ellis
John Ellis FRS was an British linen merchant and naturalist.Ellis specialised in the study of corals. He was elected a member of the Royal Society in 1754 and in the following year published An essay towards the Natural History of the Corallines. He was awarded the Copley Medal in 1767...
(1710–1776)
- Jeps. - Willis Linn Jepson
Willis Linn Jepson is known as California's most distinguished early botanist. He became interested in botany as a boy and explored adjacent regions. He had come in contact with various botanists before he entered college...
(1867–1946)
- Jess. - Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Jessen (1821–1889)
- J.F.Bailey - John Frederick Bailey (1866-1938)
- J.F.Gmel. - Johann Friedrich Gmelin
Johann Friedrich Gmelin was a German naturalist, botanist and entomologist.- Education :Johann Friedrich Gmelin was born as the eldest son of Philipp Friedrich Gmelin in 1748 in Tübingen...
(1748–1804)
- J.-F.Leroy - Jean-François Leroy (1915–1999)
- J.F.Macbr. - James Francis Macbride (1892–1976)
- J.Houz. - Jean Houzeau de Lehaie (1867–1959)
- J.Gay - Jacques Etienne Gay
Jaques Étienne Gay, French botanist, civil servant, collector and taxonomist . His name is associated with plants in standardised botanical nomenclature, e.g. Crocus sieberi J.Gay. He was the most famous of the students of botanist Jean François Aimée Gaudin with whom he began collecting plants at...
(1786–1864)
- J.Gerard - John Gerard
John Gerard was an English herbalist famous for his herbal garden. After being educated in Willaston near Nantwich he started to study medicine and travelled widely as a ship's surgeon. From 1577 on, he supervised the gardens of William Cecil, Lord Burghley in London...
(1545–1612)
- J.G.Gmel. - Johann Georg Gmelin
Johann Georg Gmelin was a German naturalist, botanist and geographer.Gmelin was born in Tübingen, the son of an apothecary. He...
(1709–1755)
- J.G.Sm. - Jared Gage Smith (1866–1925)
- J.H.Adam - J. H. Adam
Jumaat Haji Adam is a botanist and taxonomist specialising in the carnivorous pitcher plant genus Nepenthes.Adam has described numerous Nepenthes taxa, mostly with C. C. Wilcock, including the species N. faizaliana and N. mapuluensis, as well as the natural hybrids N. × alisaputrana, N. ×...
(born 1956)
- J.J.Sm. - Johannes Jacobus Smith
Johannes Jacobus Smith was a Dutch botanist who, between years 1905 to 1924, crossed the islands of the Dutch East Indies , collecting specimens of plants and describing and cataloguing the flora of these islands...
(1867–1947)
- J.Koenig - Johann Gerhard Koenig (1728–1785)
- J.Léonard - Jean Joseph Gustave Léonard (born 1920)
- J.L.Gentry - Johnnie Lee Gentry (born 1939)
- J.MacGill. - John MacGillivray
John MacGillivray was a Scottish-naturalist, active in Australia between 1842 and 1867.MacGillivray was born in Aberdeen, the son of ornithologist William MacGillivray. He took part in three of the Royal Navy's surveying voyages in the Pacific...
(1822–1867)
- J.Martyn - John Martyn
John Martyn or Joannis Martyn was an English botanist.Martyn's is best known for his Historia Plantarum Rariorum , and his translation, with valuable agricultural and botanical notes, of the Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil...
(1699–1768)
- J.M.Black - John McConnell Black
John McConnell Black was a Scottish botanist who emigrated to Australia in 1877 and eventually documented and illustrated thousands of flora in South Australia in the early 20th century. His publications assisted many botanists and scientists in the decades that followed...
(1855–1951)
- J.M.Coult. - John Merle Coulter
John Merle Coulter, Ph. D. was an American botanist and educator, brother of Stanley Coulter, born at Ningpo, China. He received his education at Hanover College in Indiana. He served in the Rocky Mountains for two years as botanist to the United States Geological Survey...
(1851–1928)
- J.M.C.Rich. - Jean Michel Claude Richard
Jean Michel Claude Richard was a noted French botanist and plant collector active in Senegal, Madagascar, Mauritius, and Réunion, and a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.Richard was born in Volon, Haute-Saône...
(1787–1868)
- J.M.MacDougal - John M. MacDougal
John Mochrie MacDougal is an American botanist, noted for his work on the taxonomy of passion flowers, having discovered several varieties.He earned his Bachelor of Science in 1975 at College of Charleston...
- J.M.Webber - John Milton Webber (born 1897, date of death unknown)
- Jongkind - Carel Christiaan Hugo Jongkind (born 1954)
- Jord. - Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan (1814–1897)
- J.Presl - Jan Svatopluk Presl
Jan Svatopluk Presl was a Bohemian natural scientist.He was the brother of botanist Karel Bořivoj Presl . The Czech Botanical Society commemorated the two brothers by naming its principal publication Preslia...
(1791–1849)
- J.R.Forst. - 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)
- J.St.-Hil. - Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire
Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire was a French naturalist and artist, born in Grasse, France.-Biography:Born as Jaume, he added Saint-Hilaire later. Some biographers indicate that this addition was to distinguish himself from a family member, Henri-Honore Jaume, a Jacobin who had been involved in...
(1772–1845)
- Jum. - Henri Lucien Jumelle (1886-1935)
- Juss. - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu was a French botanist, notable as the first to propose a natural classification of flowering plants; much of his system remains in use today....
(1748–1836)
- J.W.Mast. - John William Masters (1792–1873)
- J.W.Robbins - James Watson Robbins (1801–1879)
- J.W.Weinm. - Johann Wilhelm Weinmann
Johann Wilhelm Weinmann , apothecary and botanist, is noted for his creation of the florilegium Phytanthoza iconographia between 1737 and 1745, an ambitious project which resulted in eight folio volumes with more than 1 000 hand-coloured engravings of several thousand plants.He was born in...
(1683–1741)
- J.Woods - Joseph Woods Jr.
For other persons named Joseph Woods, see Joseph Woods .Joseph Woods FLS FGS 24 August 1776-1864 was a Quaker architect, botanist and geologist born in the village of Stoke Newington, a few miles north of the City of London...
(1776–1864)
- J.Zahlbr. - Johann Baptist Zahlbruckner (1782-1851)
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- Kalchbr. - Károly Kalchbrenner
Károly Kalchbrenner was a Hungarian mycologist. He trained in theology early in life and became a priest in Spišské Vlachy in Northeastern Slovakia. His contributions include the publishing of 60 papers and description of more than 400 fungi from Europe, Asia, Australia and South America...
(1807–1886)
- Kalkman - Cornelis Kalkman (1928–1998)
- Kalm - Pehr Kalm
Pehr Kalm was a Swedish-Finnish explorer, botanist, naturalist, and agricultural economist. He was one of Carolus Linnaeus's most important students...
(1716–1779)
- Kartesz - John T. Kartesz (fl. 1990)
- K.Bremer - Kåre Bremer (born 1948)
- Kearney - Thomas Henry Kearney (1874–1956)
- Keck - Karl Keck
Karl Keck was a Sturmbannführer in the Waffen SS during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, which was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during World War II....
(1825–1894)
- Keener - Carl Samuel Keener (born 1931)
- R.Keller - Robert Keller
Robert Keller was a German music editor.Keller was born on January 6 1828 in Harpersdorf in Lower Silesia. He moved to Berlin where he became a musical editor for the music publishing company N. Simrock. Keller edited and arranged a substantial amount of works by Johannes Brahms and Antonin Dvorak....
(1854–1939)
- Kellogg - Albert Kellogg
Dr. Albert Kellogg , was an American physician, northern California botanist and one of seven founders in 1853 of the California Academy of Sciences....
(1813 – 1887)
- Ker Gawl. - John Bellenden Ker Gawler
John Bellenden Ker, originally John Gawler was an English botanist born about 1764 in Ramridge, Andover, Hampshire and died in June 1842 in the same town...
(1764–1842)
- Kerguélen - Michel François-Jacques Kerguélen (born 1928)
- K.Hoffm. - Käthe Hoffmann
Käthe Hoffmann was a German botanist who discovered and catalogued many plant species in New Guinea and South East Asia including Annesijoa novoguineensis....
(1883–1931)
- Killip - Ellsworth Paine Killip
Ellsworth Paine Killip was a U.S. botanist. His name is linked to over 600 species names. And around 150 species are named for him. .- External links :...
(1890–1968)
- King - George King
Sir George King , was a British botanist appointed superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta in 1871, and the first Director of the Botanical Survey of India from 1890. King was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1901....
(1840–1909)
- Kingdon-Ward - Frank Kingdon-Ward
Francis Kingdon-Ward, born Francis Kingdon Ward was an English botanist, explorer, plant collector and author. He published most of his books as Frank Kingdon-Ward and this hyphenated form of his name stuck, becoming the surname of his wives and two daughters...
(1885–1958)
- Kirchn. - Emil Otto Oskar von Kirchner (1851–1925)
- Kirk - Thomas Kirk (1828–1898)
- Kit. - Pál Kitaibel
Pál Kitaibel was a Hungarian botanist and chemist.He was born at Mattersburg and studied botany and chemistry at the undersity of Buda. He became professor taught these subjects at Pest in 1794...
(1757–1817)
- Kitt. - Martin Baldwin Kittel
Martin Baldwin Kittel yclept Martin Balduin, and Baldwin Martin, was born in Aschaffenburg on the 6 January, the year given variously as 1796/7/8, in "humble circumstances" . He passed his baccalaureate in 1816, and enrolled to study philosophy at the University of Wurzburg. He was made a Doctor...
(1798-1885)
- Kit Tan - Kit Tan (born 1953)
- Kjellm. - Frans Reinhold Kjellman
Frans Reinhold Kjellman was a Swedish botanist who specialized in marine phycology and is known in particular for his work on Arctic algae....
(1846–1907)
- K.Koch - Karl Heinrich Emil Koch (1809–1879)
- K.Krause - Kurt Krause (1883–1963)
- K.Larsen - Kai Larsen
Kai Larsen is a Danish botanist.Kai Larsen is Professor of botany at Århus University, Denmark...
(born 1926)
- 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)
- 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)
- K.Müll.bis - Kai Müller (born 1975)
- Kneuck. - Johann Andreas Kneucker
Johann Andreas Kneucker was a German botanical collector who was a native of Wenkheim, a village that today is part of the community of Werbach, Baden-Württemberg....
(1862-1946)
- Koch - Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Koch (1759–1831)
- Koehne - Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne
Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne was a German botanist and dendrologist who was born near the town of Striegau, which today is known as Strzegom, Poland....
(1848–1918)
- Koeler - Georg Ludwig Koeler (1765–1807)
- Koidz. - Gen-ichi Koidzumi (1883–1953)
- Kom. - Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov
Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov was a Russian botanist.Until his death in 1945, he was senior editor of the Flora SSSR , in full comprising 30 volumes published between 1934–1960...
(1869–1945)
- Koopmann - Karl Koopmann (fl. 1879–1900)
- Korth. - Pieter Willem Korthals
Pieter Willem Korthals was a Dutch botanist. Korthals was the official botanist with the Dutch East India Service from 1831 to 1836....
(1807–1892)
- Kosterm. - André Joseph Guillaume Henri Kostermans
Dr. André Joseph Guillaume Henri 'Doc' Kostermans was a botanist. He was born in Purworejo, Java, Dutch East Indies, and educated at Utrecht University, taking his doctoral degree in 1936 with a paper on Surinamese Lauraceae.He spent most of his professional life studying the plants of...
(1907–1994)
- Kotov - Mikhail Ivanovich Kotov (1896–1978)
- Kotschy - Carl Georg 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 ....
(1813–1866)
- Kraenzl. - Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Kraenzlin
Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Kränzlin In the history of the European study of South African orchids, Fritz Kränzlin appears after Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach describing many new orchids in the region, and revising some of the genera...
(1847–1934)
- Krajina - Vladimir Joseph Krajina (1905-1993)
- Kral - Robert Kral (born 1926)
- Krapov. - Antonio Krapovickas
Antonio Krapovickas is an Argentine agronomist.Krapovickas received a degree in 1948 in agronomic engineering from the University of Buenos Aires and began teaching in 1949 as Professor of Genetics and Systems Botany at the University of Córdoba...
(born 1921)
- Krause - Johann Wilhelm Krause (1764–1842)
- Krock. - Anton Johann Krocker (1744–1823)
- Krombh. - Julius Vincenz von Krombholz
Julius Vincenz von Krombholz was a physician and mycologist born in Oberpolitz ....
(1782–1843)
- Krüssm. - Johann Gerd Krüssmann (1910–1980)
- K.Schum. - 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)
- Kubitzki - Klaus Kubitzki (born 1933)
- Kudô - Yûshun Kudô (1887–1932)
- Kuhlm. - João Geraldo Kuhlmann
João Geraldo Kuhlmann was aBrazilian botanist.Kuhlmann was a specialist on Taxonomy of Angiosperms...
(1882–1958)
- Kuhn - Friedrich Adalbert Maximilian Kuhn (1842–1894)
- Kük. - Georg Kükenthal
Georg Kükenthal was a German pastor and botanist who specialized in the field of caricology.He worked as a pastor in Grub am Forst, and later in Coburg. In 1913 he received an honorary degree from the University of Breslau....
(1864–1955)
- Kunth - Carl Sigismund Kunth
Carl Sigismund Kunth , also Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth, was a German botanist...
(1788–1850)
- Kuntze - Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze (1843–1907)
- Kunze - Gustav Kunze
Gustav Kunze Gustav Kunze Gustav Kunze (4 October 1793, Leipzig -30 April 1851, Leipzigwas a German professor of zoology and an entomologist.Kunze was Zoology Profeesor at Leipzig University. He as also director of the Botanical Gardens in Leipzig...
(1793–1851)
- Kuprian. - Ludmila Kuprianova
Ludmila Andreyevna Kuprianova was a Soviet palynologist, Chairman of the Palynological Section of the All-Union Botanical Society . Her scientific career spanned more than 50 years, most of it associated with the Komarov Botanical Institute in Leningrad...
(1914–1987)
- 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...
(1834–1878)
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- L. - Carolus Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature...
(1707–1778)
- Labill. - Jacques Labillardière
Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière was a French naturalist noted for his descriptions of the flora of Australia. Labillardière was a member of a voyage in search of the La Pérouse expedition...
(1755–1834)
- La Duke - John C. La Duke (born 1950)
- Laest. - Lars Levi Laestadius (1800–1861)
- Lag. - Mariano Lagasca y Segura (1776–1839)
- Lakela - Olga Korhoven Lakela (1890–1980)
- Lam. - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck , often just known as 'Lamarck', was a French soldier, naturalist, academic and an early proponent of the idea that evolution occurred and proceeded in accordance with natural laws.Lamarck fought in the Pomeranian War with Prussia, and...
(1744–1829)
- Lamb. - Aylmer Bourke Lambert
Aylmer Bourke Lambert was a British botanist, one of the first fellows of the Linnean Society.He is best known for his work A description of the genus Pinus, issued in several parts 1803-1824, a sumptuously illustrated folio volume detailing all of the conifers then known...
(1761–1842)
- Landolt - Elias Landolt (born 1926)
- Landrum - Leslie R. Landrum
Leslie Roger Landrum is an American botanist, currently serving as Senior Research Scientist at Arizona State University School of Life Sciences, and curator of the ASU Vascular Plant Herbarium. He attained M.S. and Ph.D...
(born 1946)
- Lange - Johan Martin Christian Lange
Johan Martin Christian Lange was a Danish botanist.He held the post of Librarian at the Botanical library of the University of Copenhagen from 1851 to 1858...
(1818–1898)
- Latourr. - Marc Antoine Louis Claret de Latourrette (1729–1823)
- Lavallée - Pierre Alphonse Martin Lavallée (1836–1884)
- Lavrent. - Georgios Lavrentiades (born 1920)
- Laxm. - Erich G. Laxmann (1737–1796)
- Layens - Georges de Layens
Georges de Layens was a French botanist and apiculturalist. He was the creator of a popular mobile beehive called the "Layens hive".He published numerous works on beekeeping and botany...
(1834-1897)
- L.B.Sm. - Lyman Bradford Smith
Lyman Bradford Smith was an American Botanist. His formal botanical author abbreviation is "L.B.Sm."....
(1904–1997)
- L.C.Wheeler - Louis Cutter Wheeler (1910–1980)
- L.D.Pryor - Lindsay Pryor
Lindsay Dixon Pryor AO was an Australian botanist noted for his work on Eucalyptus taxonomy and his role in the landscape design of Canberra, including the foundation of the Australian National Botanic Gardens....
(1915–1998)
- Leandri - Jacques Désiré Leandri (1903–1982)
- Leavenw. - Melines Conklin Leavenworth (1796–1832)
- Lecomte - Paul Henri Lecomte
Paul Henri Lecomte was a French botanist.In 1884, after attaining a number of degrees, Lecomte became a professor at Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris...
(1856–1934)
- Leconte - John (Eatton) Leconte (1784–1860)
- Ledeb. - Carl Friedrich von Ledebour
Carl Friedrich von Ledebour was a German-Estonian botanist.Between 1811 and 1836, he was professor of science in the University of Tartu, Estonia....
(1785–1851)
- Leenh. - Pieter Willem Leenhouts (1926-2004)
- Lehm. - Johann Georg Christian Lehmann
Johann Georg Christian Lehmann was a German botanist.Born at Haselau, near Uetersen, Holstein, Lehmann studied medicine in Copenhagen and Goettingen, obtained a doctorate in medicine in 1813 and a doctorate in philosophy from he University of Jena in 1814...
(1792–1860)
- Lej. - Alexandre Louis Simon Lejeune (1779–1858)
- Lellinger - David Bruce Lellinger (born 1937)
- Lelong - Michel G. Lelong (born 1932)
- Lem. - Charles Antoine Lemaire
Charles Antoine Lemaire , was a French botanist and botanical author, noted for his publications on Cactaceae....
(1800–1871)
- Le Maout - Jean Emmanuel Maurice Le Maout (1799–1877)
- Lemoine - (Pierre Louis) Victor Lemoine (1823–1911)
- León - Frère León (1871–1955)
- L.E.Navas - Luisa Eugenia Navas
Luisa Eugenia Navas Bustamante Chilean pharmacist and botanist.- Life :On 9 of May 1951 she got a degree in Chemistry and pharmacy, in that same year the became assistant of the chair of Botany in the School of Chemistry and Pharmacy of the University of Chile...
(born 1918)
- Leroy - Andre Leroy (1801–1875)
- Les - Donald H. Les (born 1954)
- Lesch. - Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour
Jean Baptiste Louis Claude Theodore Leschenault de la Tour was a French botanist and ornithologist.Leschenault de la Tour was chief botanist on Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australia between 1800 and 1803. He collected a great many new specimens in 1801 and 1802, but in April 1803 he was so ill...
(1773–1826)
- Less. - Christian Friedrich Lessing
Christian Friedrich Lessing was a German botanist who was a native of Groß Wartenberg, Niederschlesien. He was a brother to painter Carl Friedrich Lessing , and a grandnephew of poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ....
(1809–1862)
- Levyns - Margaret Rutherford Bryan Levyns
Margaret Rutherford Bryan Levyns née Michell 24 October 1890 Cape Town - 11 November 1975 Cape Town, was an eminent South African phytogeographer, botanist and taxonomist....
(1890–1975)
- Lewis - Meriwether Lewis
Meriwether Lewis was an American explorer, soldier, and public administrator, best known for his role as the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition also known as the Corps of Discovery, with William Clark, whose mission was to explore the territory of the Louisiana Purchase.- Biography :Lewis...
(1774–1809)
- Leyss. - Friedrich Wilhelm von Leysser
Friedrich Wilhelm von Leysser ; was a German botanist who was a native of Magdeburg. He also served as counsellor to the king of Prussia....
(1731–1815)
- L.f. - Carolus Linnaeus the Younger
Carl von Linné or Carolus Linnaeus the Younger was a Swedish naturalist. He is known as Linnaeus filius to distinguish him from his famous father, the systematist Carolus Linnaeus.He was enrolled at the University of Uppsala at the age of nine and was taught science by his...
(1741–1783)
- L.Fuchs - Leonhart Fuchs
Leonhart Fuchs , sometimes spelled Leonhard Fuchs, was a German physician and one of the three founding fathers of botany, along with Otto Brunfels and Hieronymus Bock .-Biography:...
(1501–1566)
- L.H.Bailey - Liberty Hyde Bailey
Liberty Hyde Bailey was an American horticulturist, botanist and cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science.-Biography:...
(1858–1954)
- L.Henry - Louis Henry
Louis Henry was a French historian. Founder of the historical demography and one-place study fields. His 1956 book co-written with Michel Fleury, Des registres paroissiaux à l'histoire de la population...
(1853–1903)
- L'Hér. - 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)
- L.H.Dewey - Lyster Hoxie Dewey
Lyster Hoxie Dewey was an American botanist, born in Cambridge, Michigan In 1888, he graduated from Michigan Agricultural College where, for the next two years, he taught botany. He was an assistant botanist of the United States Department of Agriculture from 1890 to 1902 and thereafter botanist...
(1865–1944)
- Liais - Emmanuel Liais
Emmanuel Liais was a French astronomer, botanist and explorer who spent many years in Brazil.He was born in Cherbourg, the son of a wealthy family in the shipbuilding industry....
(1826–1900)
- Liebl. - Franz Kaspar (or Caspar) Lieblein (1744–1810)
- Liebm. - Frederik Michael Liebmann
Frederik Michael Liebmann was a Danish botanist. Liebmann studied botany at the University of Copenhagen, although he never obtained a formal qualification. He went on study tours of Germany and Norway before becoming lecturer at the Danish Royal Veterinary and Agricultural College in 1837...
(1813–1856)
- Lightf. - John Lightfoot FRS
The Reverend John Lightfoot was an English conchologist and botanist.Lightfoot was the chaplain and librarian of Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland. He was the author of Flora Scotica and An Account of Some Minute British Shells, Either not Duly Observed, or Totally Unnoticed by Authors...
(1735–1788)
- Lindau - Gustav Lindau
Gustav Lindau was a German botanist and mycologist.This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Lindau when citing a botanical name....
(1866–1923)
- Lindl. - John Lindley
John Lindley was an English botanist.- Life and work :Lindley was born at Catton, near Norwich, where his father, George Lindley, author of A Guide to the Orchard and Kitchen Garden, owned a nursery garden. He was educated at what was then Norwich Grammar School...
(1799–1865)
- Lindm. - Carl Axel Magnus Lindman
Carl Axel Magnus Lindman 6 April 1856 in Halmstad - 21 June 1928, was a Swedish botanist and botanical artist, the son of Carl Christian Lindman and Sophie Fredrique Löhr. He is best known for his work "Bilder ur Nordens Flora" published 1901-1905....
(1856–1928)
- Lindq. - Sven Bertil Gunvald Lindquist (1904–1963)
- Link - Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link
Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link was a German naturalist and botanist.Link was born at Hildesheim as a son of the minister August Heinrich Link , who taught him the love for nature through collection of 'natural objects'...
(1767–1851)
- Litv. - Dmitrij Ivanovitsch Litvinov (1854–1929)
- L.K.Fu - Li-kuo Fu
Professor Li-kuo Fu worked for the Institute of Botany at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. The author of innumerable treatises on Chinese plants, notably the China Red Data Book of rare and endangered species in the 1990s....
(born 1934)
- L.M.Perry - Lily May Perry (1895–1992)
- Lodd. - Joachim Conrad Loddiges
The Loddiges family managed one of the most notable of the eighteenth and nineteenth century plant nurseries that traded in and introduced exotic plants, trees, shrubs, ferns, palms and orchids into European gardens....
(1738–1826)
- Loefl. - Pehr Loefling (1729–1756)
- Loes. - Ludwig Eduard Theodor Loesener
Ludwig Eduard Theodor Loesener was a German botanist.Collection of specimens in Europe: Amrum Islands , Alps, Black Forest, Bavaria, Tyrol, Rugen. Herbarium 14 Aquifoliaceae & cult. Ilex spp.-Abbreviation:...
(1865–1941)
- Loisel. - Jean Louis August Loiseleur-Deslongchamps (1774–1849)
- Lönnrot - Elias Lönnrot
Elias Lönnrot was a Finnish philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry. He is best known for composing the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic compiled from national folklore....
(1802–1884)
- Lotsy - Johannes Paulus Lotsy (1867–1931)
- Lott - Henry J. Lott (fl. 1938)
- Loudon - John Claudius Loudon
John Claudius Loudon was a Scottish botanist, garden and cemetery designer, and garden magazine editor.-Background:...
(1783–1843)
- Lounsb. - Alice Lounsberry
Alice Lounsberry was an American botanist and author active in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She worked closely with the Australian botanical artist Ellis Rowan, publishing three books with her as illustrator....
(1872–1949)
- Lour. - João de Loureiro
João de Loureiro was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary, paleontologist, physician and botanist.In 1742 he travelled to Cochinchina, remaining there for 30 years. He became a specialist in Asian flora and on his return published Flora Cochinchinensis ....
(1717–1791)
- L.Späth - Franz Ludwig Späth (1839–1913)
- L.T.Lu - Ling Ti Lu (born 1930)
- Luer - Carlyle A. Luer
Carlyle A. Luer is a botanist specializing in the Orchidaceae. His specialty interest is the Pleurothalidinae and allied species....
(born 1922)
- Lundell - Cyrus Longworth Lundell
- Early achievement :At the age of 21, Lundell was a sophomore at Southern Methodist University . He was appointed assistant physiologist at the Tropical Plant Research Foundation in Washington, D.C. He was to assist in British Honduras, with experiments on the sapodilla tree , which yields...
(1907–1994)
- Lunell - Joël Lunell (1851–1920)
- Lye - Kaare Arnstein Lye (born 1940)
- Lyons - Israel Lyons
Israel Lyons the younger mathematician and botanist, was born at Cambridge, the son of Israel Lyons the elder . He was regarded as a prodigy, especially in mathematics, and Robert Smith, master of Trinity College, took him under his wing and paid for his attendance...
(1739–1775)
M
- Ma - Yu Chuan Ma (born 1916)
- Maack - Richard Karlovich Maack (1825-1886)
- Maas - Paulus Johannes Maria Maas
Paulus Johannes Maria Maas is a botanist from the Netherlands and a specialist in the flora of the neotropics. Maas has identified and named about two hundred fifty plants from the Burmanniaceae, the Costus Family , the Gentian Family , the Bloodwort Family , the Banana Family , the Olacaceae, the...
(born 1939)
- Mabb. - David Mabberley
David Mabberley, Professor Dr. David John Mabberley , is a botanist, educator and writer. Among his varied interests is the taxonomy of tropical plants, especially trees of the families Labiatae, Meliaceae and Rutaceae. He is perhaps best known for his plant dictionary The plant-book. A portable...
(born 1948)
- Macfarl. - John Muirhead Macfarlane
John Muirhead Macfarlane was a Scottish botanist. He was born and educated in Scotland, where he occupied several different academic positions at the University of Edinburgh before emigrating to the United States to assume a professorial chair at the University of Pennsylvania in 1893. He held...
(1855–1943)
- Mack. - Kenneth Kent Mackenzie (1877–1934)
- M.A.Clem. - Mark Alwin Clements (born 1949)
- MacMill. - Conway MacMillan (1867–1929)
- Macoun - John Macoun
John Macoun was an Irish-born Canadian naturalist.- Early life :Macoun was born in Magheralin, County Down, Ireland in 1831, the third child of James Macoun and Anne Jane Nevin. In 1850 the worsening economic situation in Ireland led his family to emigrate to Canada, where he settled in Seymour...
(1831–1920)
- M.A.Curtis - Moses Ashley Curtis
Moses Ashley Curtis was a noted American botanist.Curtis was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and educated at Williams College in Massachusetts. After graduating, he became a tutor for the children of former Governor Edward Bishop Dudley in Wilmington, North Carolina, returning to Massachusetts...
(1808–1872)
- Magnol - Pierre Magnol
Pierre Magnol was a French botanist. He was born in the city of Montpellier, where he lived and worked for the biggest part of his life. He eventually became Professor of Botany and Director of the Royal Botanic Garden of Montpellier and even held a seat in the Académie Royale des Sciences de...
(1638–1715)
- Magnus - Paul Wilhelm Magnus (1844–1914)
- Maiden - Joseph Maiden
Joseph Henry Maiden was a botanist who made a major contribution to knowledge of the Australian flora, especially the Eucalyptus genus...
(1859–1925)
- Makino - Tomitaro Makino
thumb|200px|Tomitaro MakinoTomitaro Makino was a pioneer Japanese botanist noted for his taxonomic work. He has been called "Father of Japanese Botany", as he was one of the first Japanese botanists to work extensively on classifying Japanese plants using the system developed by Linnaeus...
(1862–1957)
- M.Allemão - Manoel Allemão (died 1863)
- Malme - Gustaf Oskar Andersson Malme (1864–1937)
- Maranta - Bartolomeo Maranta
Bartolomeo Maranta, also Bartholomaeus Marantha was an Italian physician, botanist, and literary theorist from Venice.The Marantaceae, a family of herbaceous perennials related to the gingers, are named after him. His name was also given to a street in Rome.-Life:Maranta was a student of the...
(died 1571)
- Marchal - Élie Marchal (1839–1923)
- Marchand - Nestor Léon Marchand
Nestor Léon Marchand was a French medical doctor, pharmacist, and botanist who studied the flowering plant family the Anacardiaceae and mycology. He was mayor of Thiais, France from 1881 to 1887....
(1833-1911)
- Marcks - Brian Marcks (fl. 1974)
- Marloth - Hermann Wilhelm Rudolf Marloth (1855–1931)
- Marshall - Humphry Marshall
Humphry Marshall was an American botanist and plant dealer. He was born in the village of Marshallton, Pennsylvania . He was the cousin of botanist John Bartram and William Bartram...
(1722–1801)
- Mart. - 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)
- Martinov - Ivan Ivanovich Martynov (1771-1833?)
- Masam. - Genkei Masamune
Genkei Masamune was a Japanese botanist, who worked in Formosa and then, after World War II, Taiwan. He was noted for his comprehensive botanical indexes of Borneo and Taiwan, as well as for the identification of large numbers of new species....
(1899–1993)
- 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)
- Mast. - Maxwell T. Masters
Maxwell Tylden Masters was an English botanist and taxonomist. He was educated at King's College London and the University of St Andrews...
(1833–1907)
- Mathias - Mildred Esther Mathias (1906–1995)
- Mathieu - Charles Marie Joseph Mathieu (1791–1873)
- Matsum. - Jinzô Matsumura
was a Japanese botanist, born in Ibaraki-Ken, of a samurai family. He took a great interest in botany as a young man and after he was 30 studied in Würzburg and Heidelberg . In 1883 he had been made assistant professor of botany in the University of Tokyo, and in 1890 became professor and in 1897...
(1856–1928)
- Matt. - Heinrich Gottfried von Mattuschka
Heinrich Gottfried von Mattuschka was a German botanist, born at Jauer , on 22 February 1734. He wrote Flora silesiaca, and named many plants, notably Quercus petraea. He died at Pitschen on 9 November 1779....
(1734–1779)
- Mattf. - Johannes Mattfeld (1895–1951)
- Mattox - Karl R. Mattox (born 1936)
- Maxim. - Carl Maximowicz
Carl Johann Maximowicz was a Russian botanist. Maximowicz spent most of his life studying the flora of the countries he had visited in the Far East, and naming many new species...
(1827–1891)
- Maxon - William Ralph Maxon
William Ralph Maxon, was an American botanist and pteridologist. He graduated from Syracuse University with a Ph.B. in 1898 and became an aid in the United States National Museum, Division of Plants in 1899; assistant curator in 1905; associate curator in 1914; and curator of that Division in 1937...
(1877–1948)
- Maxwell - T.C.Maxwell (1822–1908)
- M.B.Schwarz - Marie Beatrice Schol-Schwarz
Marie Beatrice Schol-Schwarz was the Dutch phytopathologist, better known simply as Bea Schwarz, who discovered the causal fungus of Dutch elm disease whilst studying with for her doctorate at the University of Utrecht in 1922, where she was Johanna Westerdijk's first PhD student.Born in Batavia,...
(1898-1969)
- M.Bieb. - Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein (1768–1826)
- M.Broun - Maurice Broun (born 1906)
- McCoy - Frederick McCoy
Sir Frederick McCoy, FRS was an Irish palaeontologist and museum administrator, active in Australia.-Early life:McCoy was the son of Dr Simon McCoy, M.D. and was born in Dublin; some sources have his year of birth as 1823, but 1817 is the most likely...
(1817–1899)
- McGill. - Donald McGillivray
Donald John McGillivray in New South Wales, Australia, and is usually known as D.J. McGillivray. He is an Australian botanical taxonomist...
(born 1935)
- McGregor - Ronald Leighton McGregor (born 1919)
- M.C.Johnst. - Marshall Conring Johnston (born 1930)
- McKinney - Harold Hall McKinney (born 1889)
- McVaugh - Rogers McVaugh
Rogers McVaugh was a research professor of botany and the UNC Herbarium's curator of Mexican plants. He was also Adjunct Research Scientist of the Hunt Institute in Carnegie Mellon University and a Professor Emeritus of botany in the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.-Biography:Born in New York...
(born 1909)
- Medik. - Friedrich Kasimir Medikus
Friedrich Kasimir Medikus was a German physician and botanistHe was born at Grambach and became director of the University of Heidelberg and curator of the botanical garden at Mannheim...
(1736–1808)
- Meerb. - Nicolaas Meerburgh (1734–1814)
- Meijer - Willem Meijer
Willem 'Wim' Meijer was a Dutch botanist and plant collector.-Background and education:Meijer was born in 1923 in The Hague, Netherlands. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam in 1951...
(1923–2003)
- 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...
(born 1923)
- Meisn. - Carl Daniel Friedrich Meissner
Carl Daniel Friedrich Meissner was a Swiss botanist.Born in Berne, Switzerland on 1 November 1800, he was christened Meisner but later changed the spelling of his name to Meissner. For most of his 40 year career he was Professor of Botany at University of Basel...
(1800–1874)
- M.E.Jones - Marcus Eugene Jones (1852–1934)
- Melch. - Hans Melchior
Hans Melchior was a German botanist.He studied botany at Berlin University, became assistant to G. Haberlandt at the Institute for plant physiology and took his doctor's degree with him in 1920....
(1894–1984)
- Melville - Ronald Melville
Ronald Melville was an English botanist, based at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. He is chiefly remembered for his wartime research into rosehips as a source of vitamin C, prompted by the epidemic of scurvy amongst children owing to the reduced importation of fresh fruit...
(1903–1985)
- Melvin - Norman C. Melvin, III (fl. 1975)
- Mendel - Gregor Mendel
Gregor Johann Mendel was an Augustinian priest and scientist, and is often called the father of genetics for his study of the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants. Mendel showed that the inheritance of these traits follows particular laws, which were later named after him...
(1822–1884)
- Menezes - Carlos Azevedo de Menezes (1863–1928)
- Menzies - Archibald Menzies
Archibald Menzies , 15 March 1754 – 15 February 1842) was a Scottish surgeon and naturalist.- Life and career :Menzies was born at Easter Stix in the parish of Weem, in Perthshire...
(1754–1842)
- Mérat - François Victor Mérat de Vaumartoise (1780–1851)
- Mereschk. - Konstantin Mereshkovski (1855–1921)
- Merr. - 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)
- Mert. - Franz Carl Mertens
Franz Carl Mertens was a German botanist who was a native of Bielefeld. He specialized in the field of phycology....
(1764–1831)
- Mett. - Georg Heinrich Mettenius
Georg Heinrich Mettenius was a German botanist who was a native of Frankfurt am Main. He was son-in-law to botanist Alexander Braun ....
(1823–1866)
- Meyen - Franz Julius Ferdinand Meyen
Franz Julius Ferdinand Meyen was a German physician and botanist.Meyen was born in Tilsit. In 1830 he wrote Phytotomie, the first review of plant anatomy...
(1804–1840)
- Mez - Carl Christian Mez
Carl Christian Mez was a German botanist and university professor. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation
Mez when citing a botanical name.-Life and Work:Mez came from a family of industrialists in...
(1866–1944)
- M.F.Fay - Michael Francis Fay (born 1960)
- M.Gómez - Manuel Gómez de la Maya y Jiménez (1867–1916)
- M.Hopkins - Milton Hopkins (born 1906)
- Micevski - Kiril Micevski or Mitzevski (1926-2002)
- Micheli - Marc Micheli (1844–1902)
- Michx. - André Michaux
André Michaux was a French botanist and explorer.-Biography:Michaux was born near Versailles. After the death of his wife he took up the study of botany and was a student of Bernard de Jussieu. In 1779 he spent time studying botany in England, and in 1780 he explored Auvergne, the Pyrenees and...
(1746–1803)
- Miers - John Miers
John Miers was a British botanist and engineer, best known for his work on the flora of Chile and Argentina....
(1789–1879)
- Milde - Carl August Julius Milde
Carl August Julius Milde was a German bryologist and pteridologist who was a native of Breslau.In 1850 he obtained his medical doctorate from the University of Breslau, where he was a student of Heinrich Göppert...
(1824–1871)
- Mill. - Philip Miller
Philip Miller was a botanist of Scottish descent.Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1722 until he was pressured to retire shortly before his death...
(1691–1771)
- Millais - John Guille Millais
John Guille Millais , known as "Johnny" Millais, was an English artist, naturalist, gardener and travel writer who specialised in wildlife and flower portraiture. He travelled extensively around the world in the late Victorian period detailing wildlife often for the first time...
(1865–1931)
- Millsp. - Charles Frederick Millspaugh
Charles Frederick Millspaugh was an American botanist, born at Ithaca, N.Y., and educated at Cornell and the New York Homeopathic Medical College. For several years he practiced medicine and from 1891 to 1893 taught botany at West Virginia University...
(1854–1923)
- Milne-Redh. - Edgar Wolston Bertram Handsley Milne-Redhead (1906–1996)
- Miq. - Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel was a Dutch botanist.He was head of the botanical gardens at Rotterdam , Amsterdam and Utrecht...
(1811–1871)
- Mirb. - Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel (1776–1854)
- Mitch. - John Mitchell
John Mitchell was a colonial American doctor and botanist. He created the most comprehensive and perhaps largest eighteenth-century map of eastern North America, known today as the Mitchell Map...
(1711–1768)
- M.Kato - Masahiro Kato (born 1946)
- M.Martens - Martin Martens
Martin Martens was a Belgian botanist who was born in Maastricht, Netherlands.Martens was a professor of chemistry and botany at the Catholic University of Louvain who specialized in the study and classification of Pteridophyta...
(1797–1863)
- Moc. - José Mariano Mociño
José Mariano Mociño Suárez Lozano , or simply José Mariano Mociño, was a naturalist from New Spain.- Biography :He was born in Temascaltepec in 1757. Being poor, he worked in many different jobs to study in the Seminario Tridentino de México...
(1757–1820)
- Moench - Conrad Moench
Conrad Moench was a German botanist, Professor of Botany at the Marburg University from 1786 until his death.He wrote 'Methodus Plantas horti botanici et agri Marburgensis' in 1794, an arranged account of plants in the fields and gardens of Marburg.In 1802 he named the plant Gillenia trifoliata in...
(1744–1805)
- Moestrup - Øjvind Moestrup
Øjvind Moestrup is a Danish aquatic botanist, working particularly with the classification of algae. He works at the Botanical Institute at the University of Copenhagen and is a professor in the Department of Biology...
(born 1941)
- Mohl - Hugo von Mohl
Hugo von Mohl was a German botanist from Stuttgart.He was a son of the Württemberg statesman Benjamin Ferdinand von Mohl , the family being connected on both sides with the higher class of state officials of Württemberg...
(1805–1872)
- Mohlenbr. - Robert H. Mohlenbrock (born 1931)
- Möhring - Paul Heinrich Gerhard Möhring
Paul Heinrich Gerhard Möhring AKA Paul Mohr was a German physician, botanist and zoologist.Möhring was physician to the Prince of Anhalt. In 1752 he published Avium Genera, an early attempt to classify bird species, which divided birds into four classes and shows the beginnings of the modern...
(1710–1792)
- Moldenke - Harold Norman Moldenke
Harold Norman Moldenke, also known as simply Moldenke was an American botanist/taxonomist. His expertise is largely in the study of Verbenaceae, Avicenniaceae, Stilbaceae, Dicrastylidaceae, Symphoremaceae, Nyctanthaceae and Eriocaulaceae....
(born 1909)
- Molina - Juan Ignacio Molina
Fr. Juan Ignacio Molina was a Chilean Jesuit priest, naturalist, historian, botanist, ornithologist and geographer.-Biography:...
(1737–1829)
- Monnard - Jean Pierre Monnard (born 1791, date of death unknown)
- Mont. - Jean Pierre François Camille Montagne (1784–1866)
- Moore - David Moore (1808–1879)
- Moq. - Christian Horace Bénédict Alfred Moquin-Tandon (1804–1863)
- Moretti - Giuseppi L. Moretti (1782–1853)
- Moris - Giuseppe Giacinto Moris (1796–1869)
- Morison - Robert Morison
Robert Morison , was a Scottish botanist. With his contemporary John Ray, he elucidated and developed the systematic classification of plants....
(1620–1683)
- Morong - Thomas Morong (1827–1894)
- Moss - Charles Edward Moss (1872–1930)
- Mottet - Seraphin Joseph Mottet (1861–1930)
- M.Roem. - Max Joseph Roemer (1791–1849)
- M.S.Baker - Milo Samuel Baker (1868–1961)
- M.T.Strong - Mark Tuthill Strong (born 1954)
- Muhl. - Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg
Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg , sometimes also spelled Gotthilf Henry Ernest Muhlenberg, was an American clergyman and botanist, son of Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg, born at Trappe, Pennsylvania He was educated at Halle and traveled in Germany and in England. He served as the pastor of Holy...
(1753–1815)
- Müll.Arg. - 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....
(1828–1896)
- Müll.-Thurg. - Hermann Müller
Hermann Müller, born October 21, 1850 in Tägerwilen in the canton of Thurgau, died January 18, 1927 in Wädenswil, was a Swiss botanist, plant physiologist, oenologist and grape breeder. He called himself Müller-Thurgau, taking the name of his home canton....
(1850–1927)
- Münchh. - Otto von Münchhausen
Otto von Münchhausen was a German botanist. He was Chancellor of University of Göttingen and a correspondent of Linnaeus. He named several species of oaks by the Linnean system, as well as other plants....
(1716–1774)
- Munz - Philip Alexander Munz (1892–1974)
- Murb. - Svante Samuel Murbeck (1859–1946)
- Murray - Johan Andreas Murray (1740–1791)
- Mutis - José Celestino Bruno Mutis (1732–1808)
- M.W.Chase - Mark Wayne Chase
Mark Wayne Chase is a US born British botanist. He is noted for work in plant classification and evolution, and one of the instigators of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group-classification for flowering plants which is partly based on DNA studies. In particular he has researched orchids, and currently...
(born 1951)
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- Naczi - Robert Francis Cox Naczi (born 1963)
- Nägeli - Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli
Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli was a Swiss botanist. He discovered what would later become known as chromosomes and apparently discouraged Gregor Mendel from further work on genetics.-Birth and education:...
(1817–1891)
- Nakai - Takenoshin Nakai
-External links:* * * by Yong Shik Kim and Mike Maunder from CURTIS'S Botanical Magazine, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. Vol. 15: 141-146, 1998....
(1882–1952)
- Nash - George Valentine Nash
George Valentine Nash was an American botanist. Employeed by the New York Botanical Garden, Nash did field work in the Bahamas, South Florida and Haiti.He published Costa Rican Orchids North American Flora...
(1864–1921)
- Naudin - Charles Victor Naudin (1815–1899)
- N.E.Br. - Nicholas Edward Brown (1849–1934)
- Neck. - Noel Martin Joseph de Necker (1730–1793)
- Née - Luis Née
Luis Née was a Franco-Spanish botanist, who accompanied the Malaspina expedition to the Pacific Ocean coasts of North America and Australia.He described many new plants, including the Coast Live Oak, which he discovered in California....
(fl. 1734–1801)
- Nees - 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)
- Neubert - Wilhelm Neubert (1808–1905)
- Nevski - Sergei Arsenjevic Nevski (1908–1938)
- Newman - Edward Newman
Edward Newman was an English entomologist, botanist and writer.Newman was born in Hampstead into a Quaker family. Both his parents were keen naturalists, and he was further encouraged to take an interest in the natural world at his boarding school in Painswick...
(1801–1876)
- N.H.F.Desp. - Narcisse Henri François Desportes
Narcisse Henri François Desportes was a French botanist and bibliographer who was a native of Champrond.He worked as an auditor to Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, and became curator of the Musée d'histoire naturelle in Le Mans...
(1776–1856)
- N.H.Holmgren - Noel Herman Holmgren (born 1937)
- Nichols - George Elwood Nichols (1882–1939)
- Nied. - Franz Josef Niedenzu
Franz Josef Niedenzu was a German botanist born in Köppernig. For most of his career he was a professor and subsequently rector at the Lyceum Hosianum in Braunsberg, East Prussia...
(1857–1937)
- Nieuwl. - Julius Aloysius Arthur Nieuwland (1878–1936)
- Nob.Tanaka - Nobuyuki Tanaka
Nobuyuki Tanaka is an economic botanist at the Tokyo Metropolitan University, the Makino Botanical Garden in Kochi prefecture, Japan and the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute , Japan....
(fl. 2000)
- Nodder - Frederick Polydore Nodder
Frederick Polydore Nodder was an English flora and fauna illustrator.Nodder illustrated George Shaw's periodical The Naturalist's Miscellany. He also helped Joseph Banks prepare the Banks' Florilegium and converted most of Sydney Parkinson's Australian plant drawings into paintings and helped...
(fl. 1770–1800)
- Noot. - Hans Peter Nooteboom (born 1934)
- Nordm. - Alexander von Nordmann
Alexander von Nordmann was a Finnish zoologist. He was born in Kymi .Nordmann was a professor at Odessa, and collected natural history specimens in southern Russia...
(1803–1866)
- Noronha - Francisco Noronha
Father Francisco Noronha was a Spanish physician and botanist who resided for some time at Manila, Luzon, Philippines, where he took much effort to organize the Royal Botanic Garden and stock it with valuable plants...
(1748–1788)
- Norton - John Bitting Smith Norton (1872–1966)
- N.Robson - Norman Keith Bonner Robson (born 1928)
- N.T.Burb. - Nancy Tyson Burbidge
Nancy Tyson Burbidge AO was an Australian systemic botanist, conservationist and herbarium curator.Burbidge was born in Cleckheaton, Yorkshire; her father, William Burbidge, was an Anglican clergyman and immigrated to Australia in 1913 when he was appointed to a parish in Western Australia...
(1912–1977)
- Nutt. - Thomas Nuttall
Thomas Nuttall was an English botanist and zoologist, who lived and worked in America from 1808 until 1841....
(1786–1859)
- Nyár. - Erasmus Julius Nyárády (1881–1966)
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- Oakes - William Oakes (1799–1848)
- O.Berg - Otto Karl Berg (1815–1866)
- O.Deg. - Otto Degener
Otto Degener was a botanist and conservationist, and is recognized as the authority of the flora of the Hawai'ian Islands....
(1899–1988)
- Oeder - Georg Christian Oeder
Georg Christian Edler von Oldenburg Oeder was a German-Danish botanist, medical doctor, economist and social reformer. His name is particularly associated with the initiation of the plate work Flora Danica.-Life and work:Oeder was the son of a Bavarian parish minister, Georg Ludwig Oeder...
(1728–1791)
- Oerst. - Anders Sandoe Ørsted (1816–1872)
- O.E.Schulz - Otto Eugen Schulz
Otto Eugen Schulz was a German botanist, born in Berlin. He published important systematic treatments of the families Brassicaceae and Erythroxylaceae, and he is the authority for many species in these families. The standard abbreviation used for species for which he is the authority is O. E....
(1874–1936)
- O.F.Cook - Orator F. Cook
Orator Fuller Cook was an American botanist, entomologist, and agronomist. Cook, born in Clyde, New York in 1867, graduated from Syracuse University in 1890. He worked for one year as an instructor at Syracuse. In 1891 Cook became a special agent of the New York State Colonization Society. He...
(1867–1949)
- O.F.Müll. - Otto Friedrich Müller
Otto Friedrich Müller, also Mueller was a Danish naturalist.-Achievements:Müller was the author of Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus . This was the first survey of the fauna of Norway and Denmark, and classified over three thousand local species...
(1730–1784)
- O.Hoffm. - 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....
(1853–1909)
- Ohwi - Jisaburo Ohwi
was Japanese botanist. He was a distinguished member of the Faculty of Science of Kyoto Imperial University. He is perhaps best known his for his 1953 .-Species names after Ohwi:* Ophiopogon ohwii Okuyama...
(1905–1977)
- Oliv. - Daniel Oliver
Daniel Oliver 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)
- Olney - Stephen Thayer Olney (1812–1878)
- Opiz - Philipp Maximilian Opiz (1787–1858)
- Ortega - Casimiro Gómez Ortega
Casimiro Gómez Ortega was a Spanish physician, and botanist who was the First Professor of the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid...
(1740–1818)
- Ostenf. - Carl Hansen Ostenfeld
Carl Emil Hansen Ostenfeld was a Danish systematic botanist. He graduated from the University of Copenhagen under professor Eugenius Warming. He was a keeper at the Botanical Museum 1900-1918, when he became professor of botany at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural College...
(1873–1931)
- Otth - Carl Adolf Otth
Carl Adolf Otth was a Swiss physician and naturalist who was a native of Bern.In 1822 he studied medicine in Bern, and afterwards attended classes on natural history in Geneva, where he had as instructors- Augustin Pyramus de Candolle and Nicolas Charles Seringe...
(1803–1839)
- Otto - Christoph Friedrich Otto
Christoph Friedrich Otto was a German gardener and botanist. He was born in Schneeberg, Saxony. From 1805 to 1843 he was inspector of the Botanical Garden in Berlin. Together with Albert Gottfried Dietrich he edited the Allgemeinen Gartenzeitung from 1833 until his death in 1856 in Berlin.The...
(1783–1856)
- Oudejans - Robertus Cornelis Hilarius Maria Oudejans (born 1943)
P
- Paine - John Alsop Paine (1840–1912)
- Pall. - Peter Simon von Pallas (1741–1811)
- Palla - Eduard Palla (1864–1922)
- Palmer - Edward Palmer
Edward Palmer was a self-taught British botanist and early American archaeologist.Born in England, he spent most of his life in the United States, where he was employed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a botanist. He led an expedition in 1891 exploring the flora and fauna of California and...
(1829–1911)
- Pančić - Josif Pančić
Josif Pančić was a Serbian botanist of Croatian origin. He was a famous lecturer at the Great School in Belgrade and the first president of the Serbian Royal Academy...
(1814–1888)
- Panero - José L. Panero (born 1959)
- Panz. - Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer
Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer was a German botanist and entomologist.He was born at Etzelwang in the Palatinate and died at Hersbruck, near Nuremberg.A physician, he practised at Hersbruck...
(1755–1829)
- Papan. - Konstantinos Papanicolaou (born 1947)
- Parl. - Filippo Parlatore
Filippo Parlatore was an Italian botanist.Italian botanist, b. at Palermo, 8 Aug., 1816; d. at Florence, 9 Sept., 1877, a devout and faithful Catholic. He studied medicine at Palermo, but practiced only for a short time, his chief activity being during the cholera epidemic of 1837...
(1816–1877)
- Parry - Charles Christopher Parry
thumb|Portrait of C. C. Parry, M. D. Engraved by Williams & Bro., New YorkCharles Christopher Parry was a British-American botanist and mountaineer....
(1823–1890)
- Pascher - Adolf Pascher (1881–1945)
- Paterson - William Paterson (1755–1810)
- Patrin - Eugène Louis Melchior Patrin (1742–1815)
- Paulsen - Ove Paulsen
Ove Vilhelm Paulsen was a Danish botanist. He studeied at the University of Copenhagen under professor Eugen Warming. He was a keeper at the Botanical Museum of the University of Copenhagen from 1905 to 1920, when he became professor of botany at the Pharmaceutical College in Copenhagen, a...
(1874–1947)
- Paunero - Elena Paunero Ruiz (born 1906)
- Pav. - José Antonio Pavón Jiménez
José Antonio Pavón Jiménez or José Antonio Pavón was a Spanish botanist known for researching the flora of Peru and Chile during an expedition under Carlos III from 1777 to 1788...
(1754–1844)
- Pavol. - Angiolo Ferdinando Pavolini
- Pax - Ferdinand Albin Pax
Ferdinand Albin Pax was a German botanist and entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera and Diptera.He was a professor of botany and zoology at the Technical University of Wroclaw.- Taxa :...
(1858–1942)
- Paxton - Joseph Paxton
Sir Joseph Paxton was an English gardener and architect, best known for designing the The Crystal Palace.-Early life:...
(1803–1865)
- P.B.Adams - P. B. Adams (fl. 1978)
- P.Beauv. - Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot de Beauvois (1752–1820)
- P.Browne - Patrick Browne
Patrick Browne , was an Irish physician and botanist.-Career:Browne was born in Woodstock, County Mayo, sent to relatives on Antigua in 1737 and returned to Europe due to ill health after two years. He studied medicine, natural history and especially botany at Reims, Paris and Leyden, qualifying...
(1720–1790)
- Peattie - Donald C. Peattie
Donald Culross Peattie was a U.S. botanist, naturalist and author. He was described by Joseph Wood Krutch as "perhaps the most widely read of all contemporary American nature writers" during his heyday.-Biography:...
(1898–1964)
- P.E.Berry - Paul Edward Berry (born 1952)
- Peck - Charles Horton Peck
Charles Horton Peck, born March 30th 1833 in Sand Lake, New York, died 1917 in Albany, New York, was an American mycologist of the 19th and early 20th centuries...
(1833–1917)
- Pedersen - Troels Myndel Pedersen (1916–2000)
- Pedley - Leslie Pedley
Leslie Pedley is an Australian botanist who specialised in the genus Acacia. He is notable for having coined the generic name Racosperma, foreshadowing a split in the genus with the Australian species requiring to be renamed....
(born 1930)
- Pellegr. - François Pellegrin (1881–1965)
- Pelser - Pieter B. Pelser
Pieter Pelser is a postdoctoral researcher whose primary interest is in studying the evolutionary history of plants with a specialty in the tribe Senecioneae, the largest tribe in the largest family of flowering plants and an author of the most recent attempt to define and delimit this tribe and...
(fl. 2005)
- Pennant - Thomas Pennant
Thomas Pennant was a Welsh naturalist and antiquary.The Pennants were a Welsh gentry family from the parish of Whitford, Flintshire, who had built up a modest estate at Bychton by the seventeenth century...
(1726–1798)
- Penn. - Leigh Humboldt Pennington (1877-1929)
- Pennell - Francis Whittier Pennell (1886–1952)
- Pépin - Pierre Denis Pépin (c. 1802–1876)
- Perkins - Janet Russell Perkins (1853 - 1933)
- Perleb - Karl Julius Perleb
Karl Julius Perleb was a German botanist and natural scientist.From 1809 to 1811, he studied at the University of Freiburg and attained a doctorate first in philosophy and 1815 in medicine. A stay in Vienna followed. In 1818, he returned to the University of Freiburg, and started post-doctoral...
(1794–1845)
- Perr. - George Samuel Perrottet
George Samuel Perrottet was a Swiss-born, French botanist and horticulturalist who was a native of Vully, canton Vaud....
(1793–1870)
- Perrine - Henry Perrine
Henry Perrine was a physician, horticulturist, United States Consul in Campeche, Campeche, Mexico, and an enthusiast for introducing tropical plants into cultivation in the United States.Henry Edward Perrine was born April 5 1797 at Cranbury, New Jersey...
(1797–1840)
- Pers. - Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1761–1836)
- Peter - (Gustav) Albert Peter (1853–1937)
- Petr. - Franz Petrak (1886–1973)
- Petz. - Carl Edward Adolph Petzold (1815–1891)
- Peyr. - 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)
- Pfeff. - Wilhelm Pfeffer
Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp Pfeffer was a German botanist and plant physiologist who was born in Grebenstein.- Academic career :...
(1845–1920)
- P.Gaertn. - Philipp Gottfried Gaertner (1754–1825)
- P.H.Allen - Paul H. Allen
Paul Hamilton Allen was an American botanist noted for his work on the ecology of Central America, orchid systematics and economically important species including bananas. He was married to the former Dorothy Osdieck of Kirkwood, Missouri....
(1911–1963)
- Phil. - Rodolfo Amando Philippi
Rodolfo Armando Philippi was a German-Chilean paleontologist and zoologist....
(1808–1904)
- Philcox - David Philcox (born 1926)
- Phillippe - Loy R. Phillippe (fl. 1989)
- P.H.Raven - Peter Hamilton Raven (born 1936)
- Pichon - Marcel Pichon (1921-1954)
- Pickett - Fermen Layton Pickett (1881–1940)
- Pic.Serm. - Rodolfo Emilio Giuseppe Pichi Sermolli (1912–2005)
- Pilg. - Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger
Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger was a German botanist, who specialised in the study of conifers.The genus Pilgerodendron is named in his honour.Selected bibliography...
(1876–1953)
- Piper - Charles Vancouver Piper (1867–1926)
- Pirotta - Pietro Romualdo Pirotta (1853–1936)
- Pittier - Henri François Pittier
Henri François Pittier was a Swiss-born geographer and botanist, who moved to Costa Rica in 1887, where he founded the Physical Geographic Institute and an herbarium. Henri Pittier National Park in Venezuela is named after him....
(1857 - 1950)
- P.J.Bergius - Peter Jonias Bergius (1730–1790)
- P.J.Müll. - Philipp Jakob Müller (1832–1889)
- P.Karst. - Petter Adolf Karsten
Petter Adolf Karsten was a Finnish mycologist, the foremost expert on the fungi of Finland in his day, and known in consequence as the "father of Finnish mycology"....
(1834–1917)
- P.K.Endress - Peter Karl Endress (born 1942)
- P.K.Holmgren - Patricia Kern Holmgren (born 1940)
- P.Kumm. - Paul Kummer
Paul Kummer was a priest, teacher, and scientist in Zerbst, Germany, known chiefly for his contribution to mycological nomenclature. Earlier classification of agarics by pioneering fungal taxonomist Elias Magnus Fries designated only a very small number of genera, with most species falling into...
(1834–1912)
- Planch. - Jules Émile Planchon
Jules Émile Planchon was a French botanist born in Ganges, Hérault.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)
- Plum. - Charles Plumier
Charles Plumier was a French botanist, after whom the genus Plumeria, or Frangipani is named.-Biography:Born in Marseille, at the age of sixteen he entered the religious order of the Minims...
(1646–1704)
- Pocock - Mary Agard Pocock (1886–1977)
- Podp. - Josef Podpera (1878–1954)
- Poederlé - Eugene Josef Charles Gilain Hubert d'Olmen Poederlé (1742–1813)
- Poepp. - Eduard Friedrich Poeppig
Eduard Friedrich Poeppig was a German botanist, zoologist and explorer who was born in Plauen.He studied medicine and natural history at the University of Leipzig, and later worked in Cuba and Pennsylvania...
(1798–1868)
- Poggenb. - Justus Ferdinand Poggenburg (1840–1893)
- Pohl - Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician....
(1782–1834)
- Poir. - 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)
- Poit. - Pierre Antoine Poiteau
-Biography:He was born in Ambleny, France. After having worked in kitchen gardens and for the Parisian market gardeners, he was appointed by André Thouin garçon jardinier in 1790 at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris...
(1766–1854)
- Pojark. - Antonina Ivanovna Pojarkova (1897-1980)
- Polatschek - Adolf Polatschek (born 1932)
- Pollard - Charles Louis Pollard (1872–1945)
- Pollich - Johan Adam Pollich
Johan Adam Pollich or Johann was a German doctor, botanist and entomologist.-Works:...
(1740–1780)
- Pollock - James Barklay Pollock (1863–1934)
- Porter - Thomas Conrad Porter (1822–1901)
- Posp. - Eduard Pospichal
Eduard Ludvik Pospichal was an Austrian botanist of Bohemian parentage who was born in Leitomischl; today known as Litomyšl, Czech Republic.Pospichal was a teacher at a secondary school in Trieste...
(1838-1905)
- Post - George Edward Post (1838-1909)
- Prantl - Karl Anton Eugen Prantl
Karl Anton Eugen Prantl , also known as Carl Anton Eugen Prantl, was a German botanist.Prantl was born in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria, and studied in Munich. In 1870 he graduated with the dissertation Das Inulin. Ein Beitrag zur Pflanzenphysiologie...
(1849–1893)
- Pringsh. - Nathanael Pringsheim
Nathanael Pringsheim was a German botanist.He was born at Landsberg, Prussian Silesia, and studied at the universities of Breslau, Leipzig, and Berlin successively...
(1823–1894)
- P.R.O.Bally - Peter René Oscar Bally (1895–1980)
- Profice - Sheila Regina Profice (born 1948)
- Prokh. - Jaroslav Ivanovic Prokhanov (1902–1964)
- Prosk. - Johannes Max Proskauer
Johannes Max Proskauer was born in Göttingen, Germany. He received his doctorate in botany from the University of London in 1964....
(1923–1970)
- P.Royen - Pieter van Royen (1923–2002)
- Pryer - Kathleen M. Pryer (fl. 1989)
- P.S.Ashton - Peter Shaw Ashton
Dr Peter Shaw Ashton, of the United Kingdom, is Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry at Harvard University, and director of the Arnold Arboretum there from 1978 to 1987....
(born 1934)
- P.Selby - Prideaux John Selby
Prideaux John Selby was an English ornithologist, botanist and artist and landowner.Selby is best known for his Illustrations of British Ornithology , the first set of life-sized illustrations of British birds...
(1788–1867)
- P.S.Green - Peter Shaw Green (born 1920)
- P.S.Wyse Jacks. - Peter Wyse Jackson
Dr. Peter Sherlock Wyse Jackson was born in Kilkenny, Ireland and is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, with whose botanic gardens he is associated. In 2005 he was appointed Director of the Irish National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin, Dublin. His father was Robert Wyse Jackson, Bishop of...
(born 1955)
- P.Taylor - Peter Taylor
Peter Geoffrey Taylor is a British botanist who worked at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew throughout his career in botany. Taylor was born in 1926 and joined the staff of the herbarium at Kew in 1948. He published his first new species, Utricularia pentadactyla, in 1954...
(born 1926)
- Purdom - William Purdom
William Purdom was a British plant explorer sent by Veitch and the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University to the northern provinces of China in 1909. He collected and photographed plants for the Arboretum along China’s Yellow River for three years, 1909–1911. He was appointed Inspector of Forests...
(1880–1921)
- Pursh - Frederick Traugott Pursh
Frederick Traugott Pursh was a German-American botanist. Born in Grossenhain, Saxony, to the name Friedrich Traugott Pursh, he was educated at Dresden Botanical Gardens, and emigrated to the United States in 1799...
(1774–1820)
- Putz. - Jules Putzeys (1809–1882)
- P.W.Ball - Peter William Ball (born 1932)
- Pynaert - Edouard-Christophe Pynaert
Edouard-Christophe Pynaert was a Belgian botanist and horticulturalist who was a native of Ghent. He was a specialist in the field of pomology....
(1835–1900)
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- Rach - Louis Theodor Rach (1821–1859)
- Radcl.-Sm. - Alan Radcliffe-Smith (1938–2007)
- Raddi - Giuseppe Raddi (1770–1829)
- Raderm. - Jacob Cornelis Matthieu Radermacher
Jacob Cornelis Matthieu Radermacher was a Dutch botanist and author.Radermacher was born in The Hague, Holland. He was an officer of the Dutch East India Company in Batavia] as well as a talented naturalist...
(1741–1783)
- Radford - Albert Ernest Radford
Albert Ernest Radford was an American botanist active in the Southeastern United States. He was best known for his work as senior author of Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas, the definitive flora for North Carolina and South Carolina.-Biography:Radford was born in Augusta, Georgia to...
(1918–2006)
- Radlk. - 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)
- R.A.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)
- Raeusch. - Ernst Adolf Raeuschel (fl. 1772–1797)
- Raf. - Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz, as he is known in Europe, was a nineteenth-century polymath who made notable contributions to the study of prehistoric earthworks in North America, Mesoamerican ancient linguistics, and botany and zoology. His personal life was erratic.Many have called him...
(1783–1840)
- Rafn - Carl Gottlob Rafn (1769–1808)
- R.A.Howard - Richard Alden Howard (1917–2003)
- Raim. - Rudolph Raimann (1863–1896)
- Ralfs - John Ralfs
John Ralfs was an English botanist. Born in Millbrook, near Southampton, he was the second son of Samuel Ralfs, a yeoman of an old family in Hampshire...
(1807–1890)
- Ramond - Louis Ramond de Carbonnières
Louis François Élisabeth Ramond, baron de Carbonnières , was a French politician, geologist and botanist...
(1755–1827)
- Raoul - Etienne Fiacre Louis Raoul
Étienne Fiacre Louis Raoul was a French naval surgeon and naturalist.He was born in Brest, the son of a captain in the French Navy, and studied at the medical school in Brest. He was appointed surgeon, third class, in 1836. He took part in an expedition on the ship L'Aube under the command of...
(1815–1852)
- Rattan - Volney Rattan (1840–1915)
- Rauh - Werner Rauh
Werner Rauh was an internationally renowned German botanist and author.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 years later...
(1913–2000)
- Raunk. - Christen C. Raunkiær
Christen Christensen Raunkiær was a Danish botanist, who was a pioneer of plant ecology. He is mainly remembered for his scheme of plant strategies to survive an unfavourable season and his demonstration that the relative abundance of strategies in floras largely corresponded to the Earth's...
(1860–1938)
- Rauschert - Stephan Rauschert (1931–1986)
- Rauwolff - Leonhard Rauwolf
Leonhard Rauwolf was a German physician, botanist and traveller....
(1535–1596)
- Raven - John Earle Raven
John Earle Raven , who published as J. E. Raven, was an English classical scholar, notable for his work on presocratic philosophy, and amateur botanist.-Early life and education:...
(1914–1980)
- Ravenna - Pierfelice Ravenna (born 1938)
- R.A.W.Herrm. - Rudolf Albert Wolfgang Herrmann (born 1885, date of death unknown)
- Ray - John Ray
John Ray was an English naturalist, sometimes referred to as the father of English natural history. Until 1670, he wrote his name as John Wray. From then on, he used 'Ray', 'having ascertained that such had been the practice of his family before him.' He published important works on plants,...
(1627–1705)
- Raymond - Louis-Florent-Marcel Raymond (1915–1972)
- Razaf. - A. Razafindratsira fl. (born 1987)
- R.Bernal - Rodrigo Bernal
Rodrigo Bernal is a Colombian botanist who specialises in the palm family. Bernal is a faculty member at the Institute of Natural Sciences, National University of Colombia. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Aarhus in 1996....
(born 1959)
- R.Br. - Robert Brown
Robert Brown FRS was a Scottish botanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope...
(1773–1858)
- Rchb. - Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (1793–1879)
- Rchb.f. - Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach
Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach was an ornithologist, botanist and the foremost German orchidologist of the 19th century...
(1824–1889)
- R.C.Jacks. - Raymond Carl Jackson (born 1928)
- R.C.Moran - Robbin C. Moran (fl. 1986)
- R.Dahlgren - Rolf Martin Theodor Dahlgren (1932–1987)
- Rech. - Karl Rechinger
Karl Rechinger was an Austrian botanist born in Vienna. He was the father of botanist Karl Heinz Rechinger .He studied at the University of Vienna, and from 1902 to 1922 was a museum curator at the botanical division of the Vienna Naturhistorisches Museum...
(1867–1952)
- Rech.f. - Karl Heinz Rechinger (1906–1998)
- R.E.Fr. - 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)
- 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)
- Rehder - Alfred Rehder
Alfred Rehder was a horticulturist and taxonomist who worked at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. Rehder was a newspaper writer from Germany who was originally hired as a laborer at the Arnold Arboretum. His talents for horticultural plant taxonomy were soon recognized, however...
(1863–1949)
- Reichard - Johann Jacob Reichard (1743–1782)
- Reinw. - 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)
- Reissek - Siegfried Reisseck
Siegfried Reisseck was an Austrian naturalist and botanist who specialized in spermatophytes and fungi.Reisseck was assistant keeper at the Royal Botanical Collection in Vienna between 1845 and 1867, when he was appointed head keeper; and from 1848 was a member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.-...
(1819–1871)
- 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)
- Req. - Esprit Requien (1788–1851)
- Resv.-Holms. - Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen
Hanna Maria Resvoll-Holmsen was a Norwegian botanist – a female pioneer in Norwegian natural history education and nature conservation together with her sister, Thekla Resvoll...
(1873–1943)
- Resvoll - Thekla Resvoll
Thekla Susanne Ragnhild Resvoll was a Norwegian botanist – a female pioneer in Norwegian natural history education and nature conservation together with her sister, Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen. She was married to mining engineer Andreas Holmsen .Resvoll was born in Vågå...
(1871–1948)
- Retz. - Anders Johan Retzius (1742–1821)
- Reut. - George François Reuter
George François Reuter was a French botanist and plant collector. He was born in Paris, and died in Geneve....
(1805–1872)
- Reveal - James Lauritz Reveal
James Lauritz Reveal is a botanist, professor emeritus at the Norton Brown Herbarium, Maryland .He is perhaps best known for his work on suprageneric names, presented in an extensive , which also presents material on , including several systems of plant taxonomy...
(born 1941)
- Rhode - Johann Gottlieb Rhode (1762-1827)
- Rich. - Louis Claude Marie Richard
Louis Claude Marie Richard was a French botanist.Richard was born at Versailles. Between 1781 and 1789 he collected botanical specimens in Central America and the West Indies...
(1754–1821)
- Richardson - John Richardson
- Politics :* John S. Richardson, United States Congressman from South Carolina, 1879–1883* John G. Richardson, American politician, member of the state legislature of Maine...
(1787–1865)
- Richens - Richard Hook Richens
Richard Hook Richens was a former Director of the Commonwealth Bureau of Plant Breeding and Genetics at Cambridge University, and became best known for his studies of elm...
(1919-1984)
- Ricken - Adalbert Ricken
Adalbert Ricken was a German Roman Catholic priest and mycologist who was a native of Fulda.He attended the seminary for Roman Catholic priests in Fulda, and afterwards was a priest and chaplain in several locations in the Fulda diocese...
(1851–1921)
- Riddell - John Leonard Riddell
John Leonard Riddell was a science lecturer, botanist, geologist, medical doctor, chemist, microscopist, numismatician, politician, and science fiction author in the United States. He was born in Leyden, Massachusetts, the son of John Riddell and Lephe Gates. He received his B.A. and M.A...
(1807–1865)
- Ridl. - Henry Nicholas Ridley
Henry Nicholas Ridley was an British botanist. He was largely responsible for establishing the rubber industry on the Malay peninsula....
(1855–1956)
- Ridsdale - Colin Ernest Ridsdale (born 1944)
- Rivière - Marie Auguste Rivière (1821–1877)
- Rizzini - Carlos Toledo Rizzini (born 1921)
- R.J.Bayer - Randall James Bayer
Randall James Bayer is an American systematic botanist, published mostly as "R.J. Bayer", who was born in Buffalo, New York, U.S.A....
(born 1955)
- R.Keller - Robert Keller
Robert Keller was a German music editor.Keller was born on January 6 1828 in Harpersdorf in Lower Silesia. He moved to Berlin where he became a musical editor for the music publishing company N. Simrock. Keller edited and arranged a substantial amount of works by Johannes Brahms and Antonin Dvorak....
(1854–1939)
- R.K.Godfrey - Robert Kenneth Godfrey (1911–2000)
- R.Knuth - Reinhard Gustav Paul Knuth (1874–1957)
- R.M.Harper - Roland McMillan Harper (1878–1966)
- R.M.King - Robert Merrill King (born 1930)
- R.Morales - Ramón Morales Valverde (born 1950)
- R.M.Patrick - Ruth Patrick
Dr. Ruth Myrtle Patrick is a botanist and limnologist specializing in diatoms and freshwater ecology, who developed ways to measure the health of freshwater ecosystems and established a number of research facilities. She attended the Sunset Hill School in Kansas City, Missouri, graduating in 1925....
(born 1907)
- R.M.Schust. - Rudolf M. Schuster (born 1921)
- Robbr. - Elmar Robbrecht (born 1946)
- H.Rob. - Harold Ernest Robinson (born 1932)
- Robyns - Frans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns (1901–1986)
- Rock - Joseph Rock
Joseph Francis Charles Rock was an Austrian-American explorer, geographer, linguist and botanist.-Life:He was born in Vienna, Austria, but moved to Honolulu, Hawaii in 1907, where he became an authority on the flora there...
(1884–1962)
- Rodr. - José Demetrio Rodrígues (1780–1846)
- Roem. - Johann Jakob Roemer (1763–1819)
- Rogow. - Athanasi Semenovich Rogowicz (1812–1878)
- Röhl. - Johann Christoph Röhling
Johann Christoph Röhling was a German botanist and clergyman who was a native of Gundernhausen, a town near Darmstadt.He studied theology in Giessen, and later taught school in Frankfurt am Main...
(1757–1813)
- Rohr - Julius Philip Benjamin von Röhr
Julius Philip Benjamin von Röhr , was a Prussian-born botanist and plant collector, naturalist, medical doctor and watercolourist, in Danish service who sent many plants to Europe from South America and the West Indies...
(1737-1793)
- Rohrb. - Paul Rohrbach
Paul Rohrbach was a German botanist born in Berlin. He wrote on orchids before dying in his 20s.-Background:Rohrbach studied the sciences at the University of Göttingen, where one of his instructors was August Grisebach. He later studied botany under Alexander Braun at the University of Berlin...
(1846–1871)
- Rollins - Reed Clark Rollins
Reed Clark Rollins was an American botanist, professor at Harvard University and one of the founders of both the International Association for Plant Taxonomy and the Organization for Tropical Studies. He was also the second president of each of them.-Sources:* Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan A...
(1911–1998)
- Romagn. - Henri Romagnesi
Henri Charles Louis Romagnesi was a French mycologist who was notable for a thorough review and monograph of the agaric genus Entoloma , as well as extensive work on the large genus Russula, of which he described several new species.-References:...
(1912–1999)
- Romans - Bernard Romans
Bernard Romans was a Dutch-born American navigator, surveyor, cartographer, naturalist, engineer, soldier, promoter and writer. His best known work, A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida, published in 1775, is a valuable source of information about the Floridas during the period of...
(c. 1720–1784)
- Rose - Joseph Nelson Rose
Joseph Nelson Rose was an American botanist. He was born in Union County, Indiana. His father died serving during the Civil War when Joseph Rose was a young boy. He later graduated from high school in Liberty, Indiana....
(1862–1928)
- Rostk. - Friedrich Wilhelm Gottlieb Theophil Rostkovius (1770–1848)
- Rota - Lorenzo Rota (1819–1855)
- Roth - Albrecht Wilhelm Roth
Albrecht Wilhelm Roth was a physician and botanist who was a native of Dötlingen, Germany.He studied medicine at the Universities of Halle and Erlangen, where he received his doctorate in 1778....
(1757–1834)
- Rothm. - Werner Hugo Paul Rothmaler (1908–1962)
- Rottb. - Christen Friis Rottbøll (1727–1797)
- Roxb. - 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)
- Roy L.Taylor - Roy L. Taylor (fl. 1965)
- Royen - Adriaan van Royen
Adriaan van Royen was a Dutch botanist. He was a professor at Leiden University and is associated with Carl Linneaus....
(1704–1779)
- Royle - John Forbes Royle
John Forbes Royle , British botanist and teacher of materia medica, was born in Kanpur in 1799. Entering the service of the East India Company as assistant surgeon, he devoted himself to studying botany and geology, and made large collections among the Himalaya Mountains...
(1798–1858)
- R.R.Haynes - Robert Ralph Haynes (born 1945)
- R.R.Scott - Robert Robinson Scott (1827–1877)
- R.T.Clausen - Robert Theodore Clausen (1911–1981)
- Rudall - Paula J. Rudall (born 1954)
- Ruiz - Hipólito Ruiz López
Hipólito Ruiz López , or Hipólito Ruiz, was a Spanish botanist known for researching the floras of Peru and Chile during an expedition under Carlos III from 1777 to 1788...
(1754–1815)
- Rumph. - Georg Eberhard Rumphius
Georg Eberhard Rumphius , the "blind seer of Ambon", was a German-born botanist employed by the Dutch East India Company in what is now eastern Indonesia, and is best known for his work, Herbarium Amboinense.-Early life:Rumphius was the oldest son of August Rumpf, a builder and engineer in Hanau,...
(1628–1702)
- Rümpler - Karl Theodor Rümpler (1817–1891)
- Rupr. - Franz Josef Ruprecht
Franz Josef Ruprecht was an Austrian-born botanist and physician. He grew up, studied, and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1836 in Prague. After a short stint in medical practice in Prague, he was appointed curator of the herbarium of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St...
(1814–1870)
- Rusby - Henry Hurd Rusby (1855–1940)
- Rydb. - Per Axel Rydberg
Per Axel Rydberg was a botanist. He was born in Odh, Västergötland, Sweden, but emigrated to the United States in 1882. He took his BS and MS degrees at the University of Nebraska and his PhD at Columbia University...
(1860–1931)
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- Sabine - Joseph Sabine
Joseph Sabine was an English lawyer and naturalist. He was the elder brother of Sir Edward Sabine.Sabine practiced law until 1808, when he was appointed inspector general of taxes. He held this position until 1835. He had a lifelong interest in natural history. He was an original fellow of the...
(1770–1837)
- Sacc. - Pier Andrea Saccardo
Pier Andrea Saccardo was an Italian botanist and mycologist.- Life :...
(1845–1920)
- Sachs - Julius von Sachs
Julius von Sachs was a German botanist from Breslau, Prussian Silesia.At an early age he showed a taste for natural history, becoming acquainted with the Breslau physiologist Jan Evangelista Purkyně. In 1851 he began studying at Charles University in Prague...
(1832–1897)
- Saff. - William Edwin Safford
William Edwin Safford was an American botanist, ethnologist, and educator employed by the U.S. Navy and federal government....
(1859-1926)
- Salisb. - Richard Anthony Salisbury
Richard Anthony Salisbury FRS was a British botanist. He was born in Leeds, England, the son of Richard Markham. He changed his last name to Salisbury following a supposed financial arrangement for support in his studies. This arrangement was claimed to have been made with a Mrs...
(1761–1829)
- Sandwith - Noel Yvri Sandwith (1901–1965)
- Santin - Dionete Aparecida Santin (fl. 1991)
- Sarg. - Charles Sprague Sargent
Charles Sprague Sargent was an American botanist. He was the first director of the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University, and the standard botanical author abbreviation Sarg. is applied to plants he described....
(1841–1927)
- Sart. - Giovanni Battista Sartorelli (1780–1853)
- Sartwell - Henry Parker Sartwell (1792–1867)
- Sauss. - Horace-Bénédict de Saussure
200px|thumb|Portrait of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure Horace-Bénédict de Saussure was a Swiss aristocrat, physicist and Alpine traveller, often considered the founder of alpinism.-Life and work:Saussure was born in Conches, near Geneva, in 1740.His early interest in botanical studies led him...
(1740–1799)
- Savi - Gaetano Savi
Gaetano Savi was an Italian naturalist.He was born in Florence and studied with Giorgio Santi and Adolfo Targioni Tozzetti...
(1769–1844)
- Savigny - Marie Jules César Lélorgne de Savigny
Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny , born on 5 April 1777 at Provins and died on 5 October 1851 at Galès in Yvelines, was a French zoologist. In 1805 he published Natural and Mythological History of the Ibis and between 1816 and 1820 the important Mémoires on the animals without vertebrae...
(1777–1851)
- S.Carter - Susan Carter Holmes
Susan Carter Holmes is a botanist and taxonomist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. She discovered and catalogued more than 200 plants of the family Euphorbiaceae, particularly of the succulent East African members of the genera Euphorbia and Monadenium, as well as about 20 Aloes...
(born 1933)
- Scharf - Uwe Scharf (born 1965)
- Schauer - Johannes Conrad Schauer
Johannes Conrad Schauer was a botanist interested in Spermatophytes. He was a professor of botany at the University of Greifswald. Amongst his published works are descriptions of the myrtles of Western Australia....
(1813–1848)
- Sch.Bip. - Carl Heinrich Bipontinus Schultz
Carl Heinrich Schultz ; name often written as Carl Heinrich Schultz Bipontinus, a Latinized reference to his birthplace- Zweibrücken...
(1805–1867)
- Scheele - George Heinrich Adolf Scheele (1808–1864)
- Schelle - Ernst Schelle
Ernst Schelle was a German botanist who specialized in cacti. He was employed as Inspector of the Botanical Gardens in Tübingen. The grass species Helictotrichon schellianum Kitag.is named for him.-Publications:...
(1864–1945)
- Schenk - Joseph August Schenk (1815–1891)
- Scherb. - Johannes Scherbius (1769–1813)
- Schiede - Christian Julius Wilhelm Schiede
Christian Julius Wilhelm Schiede was a German physician and botanist who was born in Kassel. He studied natural sciences and medicine in Berlin and Göttingen, where he earned his doctorate in 1825...
(1798-1836)
- Schindl. - Anton Karl Schindler (1879–1964)
- 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)
- Schleid. - Matthias Jakob Schleiden
Matthias Jakob Schleiden was a German botanist and co-founder of the cell theory, along with Theodor Schwann and Rudolf Virchow....
(1804–1881)
- Schltdl. - 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)
- Schltr. - Rudolf Schlechter
Friedrich Richard Rudolf Schlechter was a German taxonomist, botanist, and author of several works on orchids....
(1872–1925)
- Schmalh. - Johannes Theodor Schmalhausen
Johannes Theodor Schmalhausen was a botanist, known for his studies of East-European plants...
(1849–1894)
- Schnizl. - Adalbert Carl Friedrich Hellwig Conrad Schnizlein (1814-1868)
- Schöpf - Johann David Schoepf
Johann David Schoepf or Schöpf was a German botanist, zoologist, and physician.He was born in Bayreuth and travelled to New York in 1777 as the chief surgeon for the Ansbach regiment of Hessian troops fighting for King George III of the United Kingdom.During the war Schoepf was stationed in Rhode...
(1752–1800)
- Schönl. - Johann Lucas Schönlein (1793–1864)
- Schott - Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
Heinrich Wilhelm Schott was an Austrian botanist well-known for his extensive work on the aroids ....
(1794–1865)
- Schottky - Ernst Max Schottky (1888–1915)
- Schousb. - Peder Kofod Anker Schousboe (1766-1832)
- Schrad. - Heinrich Adolph Schrader (1767–1836)
- Schrank - Franz Paula von Schrank
Franz von Paula Schrank was a German botanist and entomologist.Schrank was the first director of the botanical gardens in Munich from 1809 to 1832.Shrank was the first author to use the genus name Triops...
(1747–1810)
- Schreb. - Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber
Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber , often styled I.C.D. von Schreber, was a German naturalist....
(1739–1810)
- Schub. - Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert
Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert was a German physician and naturalist....
(1780-1860)
- Schübl. - Gustav Schübler
Gustav Schübler was a German naturalist, and the founder of applied meteorology in Germany.In 1817 Schübler became professor of botany, natural history and agricultural chemistry at the University of Tübingen, Germany...
(1787–1834)
- Schult. - Josef August Schultes
Josef August Schultes 1773-1831 was an Austrian botanist and professor in Vienna. Together with Johann Jacob Roemer, he published the 16th edition of Linnaeus' Systema Vegetabilium. In 1821, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.Father of Julius Hermann Schultes....
(1773–1831)
- Schult.f. - Julius Hermann Schultes
Julius Hermann Schultes was an Austrian botanist in Vienna. He co-authored volume 7 of the Roemer & Schultes edition of the Systema Vegetabilium with his father Josef August Schultes....
(1804–1840)
- Schumach. - Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher
Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher , was a Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy at the University of Copenhagen...
(1757–1830)
- Schur - Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur
Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur was a German-Austrian pharmacist and botanist who was a native of Königsberg....
(1799–1878)
- Schwartz - Ernest Justus Schwartz (1869–1939)
- Schweick. - Herold Georg Wilhelm Johannes Schweickerdt (1903–1977)
- Schwein. - Lewis David von Schweinitz
Lewis David de Schweinitz was an American botanist and mycologist. He is considered by some the "Father of North American Mycology", but also made significant contributions to botany. He described Dibotryon morbosum Theiss...
(1780–1834)
- Schweinf. - Georg August Schweinfurth
Georg August Schweinfurth was a German botanist, traveller in East Central Africa and ethnologist....
(1836–1925)
- Schwer. - Fritz Kurt Alexander von Schwerin (1847–1925)
- Scop. - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli was a Tyrolean physician and naturalist.-Biography:...
(1723–1788)
- Scribn. - Frank Lamson-Scribner (1851–1938)
- S.D.Jones - Stanley D. Jones (fl. 1992)
- Secr. - Louis Secretan
Louis Secretan , was a Swiss lawyer and mycologist. He published Mycologie Suisse in 1833, though the names are not regarded as valid unless republished by other authors....
(1758–1839)
- Seem. - 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)
- Seigler - David Stanley Seigler (born 1940)
- Selander - Nils Sten Edvard Selander (1891–1957)
- Semple - John Cameron Semple (born 1947)
- Sendtn. - Otto Sendtner
Otto Sendtner was a German botanist and phytogeographer born in Munich.He received his education at the University of Munich, where he was a student of Karl Friedrich Schimper...
(1813–1859)
- Seneb. - Jean Senebier
Jean Senebier was a Swiss pastor who wrote many works on vegetable physiology.He was born at Geneva, and is remembered for his contributions to the understanding of the influence of light on vegetation....
(1742–1809)
- Ser. - Nicolas Charles Seringe
Nicolas Charles Seringe was a French physican and botanist who was a native of Longjumeau.He studied medicine in Paris, and subsequently served as a military surgeon. In this role he was involved in the German campaign under General Jean Victor Marie Moreau...
(1776–1858)
- Sessé - Martín Sessé y Lacasta
Martín Sessé y Lacasta was a Spanish botanist who relocated to Mexico during the eighteenth century to study and classify the flora of the territory.-Background:...
(1751–1808)
- Seub. - Moritz August Seubert
Moritz August Seubert was a German botanist.- Life :Seubert was the son of a medical officer of health. He first attended the Lyzeum in Karlsruhe and already at that time had contact with the botanist, Alexander Braun, who interested him in this subject...
(1818–1878)
- Seward - Albert Charles Seward
Albert Charles Seward was a British botanist and geologist.-Life:His first education was at Lancaster Grammar School and then on to St. John's College at Cambridge following his parents' wish to dedicate his life to the Church...
(1863–1941 )
- S.F.Blake - Sidney Fay Blake (1892–1959)
- S.G.Gmel. - Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin
Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin was a German physician, botanist and explorer.- Background :Gmelin was born at Tübingen in a well known family of naturalists. His father was Johann Conrad Gmelin, an apothecary and surgeon. His uncle was Johann Georg Gmelin...
(c. 1744–1774)
- Shafer - John Adolph Shafer
John Adolph Shafer was an American botanist.- Life :Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Shafer graduated from the Pittsburgh School, of Pharmacy in 1881 and worked as a pharmacist until after his marriage to Martha Tischer in 1888.In 1897 Shafer was appointed Custodian in the Section of Botany at...
(1863–1918)
- Sharsm. - Carl William Sharsmith
Carl W. Sharsmith was an American naturalist.-Biography:Born Karl Wilhelm Schaarschmidt II in New York City to Swiss and German parents. He grew up the U.S., Europe, and Canada....
(1903–1994)
- Shaver - Jesse Milton Shaver (1888–1961)
- Shear - Cornelius Lott Shear
Cornelius Lott Shear was an American mycologist and plant pathologists. In 1908 he created the American Phytopathological Society. He was the first to describe Bromus arizonicus....
(1865–1956)
- Shinners - Lloyd Herbert Shinners (1918–1971)
- Shipunov - Alexey B. Shipunov (born 1965)
- Shiras. - Yasuyoshi (Miho or Homi) Shirasawa (1868–1947)
- Short - Charles Wilkins Short (1794–1863)
- Shuttlew. - Robert James Shuttleworth (1810–1874)
- Sibth. - John Sibthorp
John Sibthorp was an English botanist. He was born in Oxford, the youngest son of Dr Humphrey Sibthorp , who from 1747 to 1784 was Sherardian professor of botany at the University of Oxford....
(1758–1796)
- Sieber - Franz Sieber
Franz Wilhelm Sieber, , was a botanist and collector who travelled in Europe, the Middle East, Southern Africa and Australia....
(1789–1844)
- Siebold - Philipp Franz von Siebold
Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold was a German physician. He emerged as the first European to teach Western medicine in Japan...
(1796–1866)
- 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)
- Simon-Louis - Leon L. Simon-Louis (1834–1913)
- Sims - John Sims
John Sims was a taxonomist who classified various species of plants.He was the first editor of The Botanical Magazine after the founder, William Curtis....
(1749–1831)
- Singer - Rolf Singer
Rolf Singer was a German-born mycologist and one of the most important taxonomists of gilled mushrooms in the 20th century....
(1906–1994)
- Skeels - Homer Collar Skeels (1873–1934)
- Slavin - Berhard Henry Slavin (born 1873, date of death unknown)
- Sleumer - Hermann Otto Sleumer
Hermann Otto Sleumer was a Dutch botanist of German birth. The plant genera Sleumerodendron Virot and Sleumeria Utteridge, Nagam. & Teo , are named for him....
(1906–1993)
- Sm. - James Edward Smith
Sir James Edward Smith was an English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society.Smith was born in Norwich in 1759, the son of a wealthy wool merchant. He displayed a precocious interest in the natural world...
(1759–1828)
- Small - John Kunkel Small
John Kunkel Small was an American botanist.He was the first Curator of Museums at The New York Botanical Garden, a post in which he served from 1898 until 1906. From 1906 to 1934 he was Head Curator and then from 1934 until his death he was Chief Research Associate and Curator...
(1869–1938)
- S.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....
(1850–1931)
- Smyth - Bernard Bryan Smyth (1843–1913)
- Sobol. - Gregor Fedorovitch Sobolewsky (1741–1807)
- Soderstr. - Thomas Robert Soderstrom (1936–1987)
- Soegeng - Wertit Soegeng-Reksodihardjo (born 1935)
- Soják - Jirí Soják (born 1936)
- Sol. - Daniel Solander
Daniel Carlsson Solander or Daniel Charles Solander was a Swedish botanist.Solander was born in Piteå, Norrland, Sweden and was the son of a Lutheran principal. He enrolled at Uppsala University in July 1750 and studied languages and the humanities...
(1733–1782)
- Sole - William Sole (1741–1802)
- Soler. - 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)
- Sond. - 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....
(1812–1881)
- Sonn. - 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)
- Soó - Soó Rezső (1903–1980)http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/So%C3%B3_Rezs%C5%91
- 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)
- Spellenb. - Richard Spellenberg (born 1940)
- S.Pierce - Simon Pierce (born 1974)
- Sprague - Thomas Archibald Sprague (1877–1958)
- Spreng. - Curt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (1766–1833)
- Spring - Antoine Frédéric Spring
Antoine Frédéric Spring was a German-born, Belgian physician and botanist who was a native of Géroldsbach, Bavaria....
(1814–1872)
- Spruce - Richard Spruce
Richard Spruce was an English botanist. One of the great Victorian botanical explorers, Spruce spent approximately 15 years exploring the Amazon from the Andes to the mouth, and was one of the first Europeans to visit many of the places where he collected specimens.The plants and objects collected...
(1817–1893)
- S.S.Chang - Siu Shih Chang (born 1918)
- Stace - Clive Anthony Stace
Clive Anthony Stace is a British botanist and botanical author. His academic career was based at the University of Leicester, where he held the post of Professor of Plant taxonomy...
(born 1938)
- Stackh. - John Stackhouse
John Stackhouse was an English botanist, primarily interested in Spermatophytes, algae and mycology. He was born in Probus, Cornwall....
(1742–1819)
- Standl. - Paul Carpenter Standley
Paul Carpenter Standley was an American botanist.Standley was born in Avalon, Missouri. He attended Drury College in Springfield, Massachusetts and New Mexico State College, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1907, and received a masters degree from New Mexico State College in 1908, where he...
(1884–1963)
- Stapf - Otto Stapf
Otto Stapf was an Austrian born botanist.Stapf trained in Vienna, moving to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1890. He was keeper of the Herbarium from 1909 to 1920. He was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1927....
(1857–1933)
- Staudt - Günther Staudt (born 1926)
- S.T.Blake - Stanley Thatcher Blake
Stanley Thatcher Blake was an Australian botanist who served as president of the Royal Society of Queensland who was associated with the Queensland Herbarium beginning in 1945 until his death.- Background :...
(1910–1973)
- Stearn - William Thomas Stearn (1911–2001)
- Stebbins - George Ledyard Stebbins (1906–2000)
- Steenis - Cornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan van Steenis (1901–1986)
- Stein - Berthold Stein (1847–1926)
- Steller - Georg Wilhelm Steller
Georg Wilhelm Steller was a German botanist, zoologist, physician and explorer, who worked in Russia and present-day Alaska.-Biography:...
(1709–1746)
- Steph. - Franz Stephani
Franz Stephani was a German bryologist specializing in liverworts. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Steph. when citing a botanical name....
(1842–1927)
- Sternb. - Kaspar Maria von Sternberg
Kaspar Maria von Sternberg , 1761–1838, Březina Castle, was a Bohemian theologian, mineralogist, geognost, entomologist and botanist. He is known as the Father of Paleobotany....
(1761–1838)
- Sterns - Emerson Ellick Sterns (1846–1926)
- Steud. - Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel
Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel was a German physician and an authority on grasses....
(1783–1856)
- Steward - Albert Newton Steward (1897–1959)
- Steyerm. - Julian Alfred Steyermark
Julian Alfred Steyermark was an American botanist. His focus was on New World vegetation, and he specialized in the family Rubiaceae.- Life and work :...
(1909–1988)
- Stocks - John Ellerton Stocks
John Ellerton Stocks M.D., F.L.S , was a native of Cottingham,England who distinguished himself as a botanist in India.-India:He joined the Bombay Medical Staff in the 1840s. For most part of his service, he was posted in Sind.-See also:*...
(1822–1854)
- Stokes - Jonathan S. Stokes (1755–1831)
- Strasb. - Eduard Strasburger
Eduard Adolf Strasburger was a Polish-German professor who was one of the most famous botanists of the 19th century.He was born in Warsaw, Poland, son of Edward Bogumil Strasburger...
(1844–1912)
- Stritch - L.R.Stritch (fl. 1982)
- Stuchlík - Jaroslav Stuchlík (1890–1967)
- Stuntz - Stephen Conrad Stuntz (1875–1918)
- Sturm - Jacob W. Sturm (1771–1848)
- Sudw. - George Bishop Sudworth
George Bishop Sudworth was an American botanist. At the time of his death, he was the Chief Dendrologist of the US Forest Service.During his life, Sudworth published several books, but his most famous is A Check List of the Forest Trees of the United States.Sudworth discovered many new species and...
(1864–1927)
- Suess. - Karl Suessenguth (1893–1955)
- Suksd. - Wilhelm Nikolaus Suksdorf (1850–1932)
- Sull. - William Starling Sullivant
William Starling Sullivant was a US bryologist.He was the son of Lucas Sullivant and Sarah Starling. He studied at Ohio University at Athens, Ohio...
(1803–1873)
- Suter - Johann Rudolf Suter (1766–1827)
- Svenson - Henry Knute Svenson (1897–1986)
- Svent. - Eric R. Svensson Sventenius (1910–1973)
- Sw. - Olof Swartz
Olof Peter Swartz was a Swedish botanist and taxonomist. He is best known for his taxonomic work and studies into pteridophytes...
(1760–1818)
- Swainson - William John Swainson (1789 - 1855)
- S.Watson - Sereno Watson
Sereno Watson was an American botanist.Graduating from Yale in 1847, he drifted through various occupations until, in California, he joined the Clarence King Expedition and eventually became its expedition botanist...
(1812–1883)
- Sweet - Robert Sweet
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)
- Swezey - Goodwin Deloss Swezey (1851–1934)
- Swingle - Walter Tennyson Swingle
Walter Tennyson Swingle was an American agricultural botanist who was born in Canaan, Pennsylvania and moved with his family to Kansas two years later. He graduated from the Kansas State Agricultural College in 1890, and studied in Bonn in 1895-96 and 1898...
(1871–1952)
- Syme - John Thomas Irvine Boswell Syme (1822–1888)
- Symons - Jelinger Symons (1778–1851)
- S.Y.Wang - Sui-Yi Wang (born 1934)
- Szyszył. - Ignaz von Szyszyłowicz (1857–1910)
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- T.A.Chr. - Tyge Ahrengot Christensen (1918–1996)
- Takht. - Armen Takhtajan
Armen Leonovich Takhtajan or Takhtajian , is a Soviet-Armenian botanist, one of the most important figures in 20th century plant evolution and systematics and biogeography. His other interests include morphology of flowering plants, paleobotany, and the flora of the Caucasus...
(born 1910)
- T.Anderson - Thomas Anderson (1832–1870)
- Tansley - Arthur Tansley
Sir Arthur George Tansley was an English botanist who was a pioneer in the science of ecology. From the start, he was much influenced by the Danish plant ecologist Eugenius Warming. He championed the term ecosystem in 1935 and ecotope in 1939...
(1871–1955)
- Tat. - Alexander Alexejevitch Tatarinow (1817-1886)
- Taton - Auguste Taton
Auguste Simon Taton is a Belgian botanist who worked primarily in the Belgian Congo in Africa .- Biography :...
(1914-1989)
- Taub. - Paul Hermann Wilhelm Taubert (1862–1897)
- Tausch - Ignaz Friedrich Tausch (1793–1848)
- T.Baskerv. - Thomas Baskerville (1812-1840)
- T.Bastard - Thomas Bastard (d. 1815)
- T.C.E.Fr. - 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...
(1886–1930)
- T.Durand - Théophile Alexis Durand (1855–1912)
- Teijsm. - Johannes Elias Teijsmann
Johannes Elias Teijsmann was a botanist and plant collector. He was born in Arnhem, Netherlands.Teijsmann travelled to Java in 1830 as Gardener of Governor General van den Bosch. He was appointed the Curator of the Buitenzorg Botanic Gardens the following year, a post he held until 1869...
(1808-1882)
- Ten. - Michele Tenore
Michele Tenore was an Italian botanist active in Naples, Italy.Tenore studied at the University of Naples, receiving his medical degree in 1800...
(1780–1861)
- T.E.Raven - Tamra Engelhorn Raven (born 1945)
- T.F.Forst. - Thomas Furley Forster (1761–1825)
- Thell. - Albert Thellung
-Works:*Illustrierte Flora von Mittel-Europa 1906*Die Gattung Lepidium R. Br. : eine monographische Studie 1906 *Die Entstehung der Kulturpflanzen 1930 *Flora der Schweiz - Exkursionsflora, 1923...
(1881–1928)
- Thieret - John William Thieret (born 1926)
- Thomson - Thomas Thomson (1817–1878)
- Thonn. - 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)
- Thorne - Robert Folger Thorne
Dr. Robert F. Thorne was born on July 13, 1920 in Spring Lake, New Jersey. He was educated through high school in Gulfport and St. Petersburg, Florida. He graduated summa cum laude in 1941 with a major in botany from Dartmouth College and earned his M.S. degree in Economic Botany in 1942 at Cornell...
(born 1920)
- Thouars - Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars
Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars was an eminent French botanist.-Introduction:He was from an aristocrat family of the region of Anjou, where he grew up in the castle of Boumois, near Saumur...
(1758–1831)
- Thuill. - Jean Louis Thuillier (1757–1822)
- Thulin - Mats Thulin (born 1948)
- Thunb. - Carl Peter Thunberg
Carl Peter Thunberg was a Swedish naturalist. He has been called "the father of South African botany" and the "Japanese Linnaeus".-Early life:...
(1743–1828)
- Thur. - Gustave Adolphe Thuret (1817-1875)
- Thwaites - George Henry Kendrik Thwaites (1811–1882)
- Tidestr. - Ivar Frederick Tidestrøm (1864–1956)
- Tiegh. - Phillippe Édouard Léon van Tieghem
Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem was a French botanist who was a native of Baillleul in the département of Nord....
(1839–1914)
- Tiling - Heinrich Sylvester Theodor Tiling (1864–1956)
- Tineo - Vincenzo Tineo
Vincenzo Tineo was an Italian Botanist. From 1814 to 1856 he was the director of the Palermo Botanical Garden. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Tineo when citing a botanical name.-Works:*Tineo, V....
(1791-1856)
- T.Lestib. - Thémistocle Gaspard Lestiboudois (1797–1876)
- T.Moore - Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore was a gardener and botanist from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. An expert on ferns and fern allies from the British Isles, he served as Curator of the Society of Apothecaries Garden from 1848 to 1887...
(1821–1887)
- T.N.McCoy - Thomas Nevil McCoy (born 1905)
- Tod. - Agostino Todaro
Agostino Todaro was an Italian botanist.He was born in Palermo, Italy, where he died. He was a professor of botany and became the director of the botanical gardens in Palermo. He published the Hortus Botanicus Panormitanus in 1876-1878....
(1818–1892)
- Todzia - Carol Ann Todzia (fl. 1986)
- Tolm. - Alexandr Innokentevich Tolmatchew
Alexandr Innokentevich Tolmatchew was a twentieth century Russian and Soviet botanist and phytogeographer who was a leading expert in the flora of Russia's Arctic...
(1903–1979), also spelled Tolmachew, Tolmachev
- Torr. - John Torrey
John Torrey was an American botanist.Torrey was born in New York. When he was 15 or 16 years of age his father received a prison appointment at Greenwich, and there he made the acquaintance of Amos Eaton, a pioneer of natural history studies in America. He thus learned the elements of botany, as...
(1796–1873)
- Tourn. - Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort was a French botanist, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants.-Biography:...
(1656–1708)
- T.Q.Nguyen - To Quyen Nguyen (fl. 1965)
- Trad. - John Tradescant the younger
John Tradescant the Younger , son of John Tradescant the elder, was a botanist and gardener, born in Meopham, Kent and educated at The King's School, Canterbury...
(1608–1662)
- Tratt. - Leopold Trattinnick (1764–1889)
- Trautv. - Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter
Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter , was a Baltic German botanist, specialising in the flora of the Caucasus and central Asia.He was the son of Friedrich Wilhelm Trautvetter, Royal Saxon privy and agent at St...
(1809–1889)
- Trel. - William Trelease
William Trelease was a American botanist, entomologist, explorer, writer and educator. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Trel. when citing a botanical name.Trelease graduated B.S. from Cornell...
(1857–1945)
- Triana - José Jerónimo 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)
- Trimen - Henry Trimen
Henry Trimen was a British botanist. He named several plants in the Dipterocarpaceae family.He was born in Paddington, London, England, the son of Richard and Marinne Trimen and the younger brother of entomologist Roland Trimen...
(1843–1896)
- Trin. - Carl Bernhard von Trinius
Carl Bernhard von Trinius was a German-born botanist.Trinius was a specialist in grasses and described many species in his career including Agrostis pallens, Cenchrus agrimonioides and Festuca subulata....
(1778–1844)
- Trotter - Alessandro Trotter
Alessandro Trotter was an Italian botanist and entomologist who pioneered in cecidology, the study of plant galls.Alessandro Trotter was the son-in-law of Pier Andrea Saccardo ....
(1874–1967)
- Tswett - Mikhail Tsvet
Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvet was a Russian botanist who invented adsorption chromatography. His last name is Russian for both "color" and "flower."-Biography:Mikhail Tsvet was born May 14, 1872 in Asti, Italy...
(1872–1919)
- Tuck. - Edward Tuckerman
Edward Tuckerman was a botanist and professor from Boston, Massachusetts who made significant contributions to the study of lichens and other alpine plants. The majority of his collecting was done on the slopes of Mount Washington in the White Mountains...
(1817–1886)
- Turcz. - Nicolai Stepanovitch Turczaninow
Porphir Kiril Nicolai Stepanowitsch Turczaninow was a Russian botanist who first identified several genera, and many species of plants...
(1796–1863)
- Turner - Dawson Turner
Dawson Turner was an English banker, botanist and antiquary.-Early life:Turner was the son of James Turner and Elizabeth Cotman, the only daughter of the mayor of Yarmouth John Cotman.-Career:...
(1775–1858)
- Turpin - Pierre Jean François Turpin
Pierre Jean François Turpin was a French botanist and illustrator. He is considered one of the greatest floral and botanical illustrators during the Napoleonic Era and afterwards. As an artist, Turpin was largely self-taught....
(1775–1840)
- Tzvelev - Nikolai Nikolaievich Tzvelev (born 1925)
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- Ueki - Robert Ueki (fl. 1973)
- Ulbr. - Oskar Eberhard Ulbrich (1879–1952)
- Ule - Ernst Heinrich Georg Ule (1854–1915)
- Ulmer - Torsten Ulmer (born 1970)
- Underw. - Lucien Marcus Underwood (1853–1907)
- Urb. - Ignatz Urban
Ignatz Urban was a German botanist. He is known for his contributions to the flora of the Caribbean and Brazil, and for his work as curator of the Berlin Botanical Garden. Born the son of a brewer, Urban showed an interest in botany as an undergraduate. He pursued further study at the...
(1848–1931)
- Ursch - Eugène Ursch (1882–1962)
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- Vahl - Martin Vahl
Martin Henrichsen Vahl was a Danish-Norwegian botanist and zoologist.He studied botany in Copenhagen and in Uppsala under Carolus Linnaeus. He edited Flora Danica fasc. XVI-XXI , Symbolæ Botanicæ I-III , Eclogæ Americanæ I-IV and Enumeratio Plantarum I-II...
(1749–1804)
- Vail - Anna Murray Vail (1863–1955)
- Vaill. - Sébastien Vaillant
Sébastien Vaillant was a French botanist.Vaillant was born at Vigny, Val d'Oise. He studied medicine at Pontoise, and then moved to Paris to practice as a surgeon, where he studied botany at the Jardin des Plantes under Joseph Pitton de Tournefort.Vaillant was appointed to the staff of the Jardin...
(1669–1722)
- Valeton - Theodoric Valeton (1855–1929)
- Vand. - Domenico Vandelli
Domenico Agostino Vandelli was an Italian naturalist.In 1765 Vandelli was appointed lecturer in chemistry and natural sciences at the University of Coimbra. He was the first supervisor for the orientation of the Botanical Garden of the University of Coimbra, being followed in 1791 by Félix Avelar...
(1735–1816)
- Van Houtte - Louis Benoit Van Houtte (1810–1876)
- van Jaarsv. - Ernst van Jaarsveld (1953-)
- Vaniot - Eugene Vaniot (died 1913)
- Vasey - George Vasey
George S. Vasey was an English-born American botanist who collected a lot in Illinois before integrating the United States Department of Agriculture , where he became Chief Botanist and curator of the greatly expanded National Herbarium.-Biography:George Vasey was born in 1822 in Snainton near...
(1822–1893)
- Vassilcz. - I. T. Vassilczenko (Иван Т. Васильченко) (b. 1903)
- Vavilov - Nikolai Vavilov
Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov was a prominent Russian and Soviet botanist and geneticist best known for having identified the centres of origin of cultivated plants...
(1887–1943)
- Veitch - John Gould Veitch
John Gould Veitch was a horticulturist and traveller, one of the first Victorian plant hunters to visit Japan. A great-grandson of John Veitch, the founder of the Veitch horticulture dynasty, he also visited the Philippines, Australia, Fiji, and other Polynesian islands.He brought back a number of...
(1839–1870)
- Vell. - José Mariano da Conceição Vellozo (1742–1811)
- Velloso - Joaquim Velloso de Miranda (1733–1815)
- Vent. - Étienne Pierre Ventenat
Étienne Pierre Ventenat was a French botanist born in Limoges. He was the brother of naturalist Louis Ventenat ....
(1757–1808)
- Verdc. - Bernard Verdcourt
Bernard Verdcourt is a biologist and taxonomist, most widely known as a botanist and currently 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...
(born 1925)
- V.Gibbs - Vicary Gibbs (1853–1932)
- Vickery - Joyce Winifred Vickery
Joyce Winifred Vickery was an Australian botanist who specialised in taxonomy and became well known in Australian for forensic botany....
(1908–1979)
- Vict. - Conrad Kirouac, Brother Marie-Victorin
Brother Marie-Victorin was a De La Salle Christian Brother and botanist in Quebec, Canada, best known as the father of the Jardin botanique de Montréal...
(1885–1944)