Andrew Henderson (botanist)

Last updated

Andrew J. Henderson
BornSeptember 8, 1950 (1950-09-08) (age 75) [1]
Surrey, England
Citizenship United States [1]
Scientific career
Fields Botany, Palm systematics
InstitutionsInstitute of Systematic Botany, New York Botanical Garden [1]
Author abbrev. (botany) A.J.Hend.

Andrew James Henderson (born September 8, 1950) is a palm-systematist and Curator of the Institute of Systematic Botany at the New York Botanical Garden. [1] He has authored taxonomic descriptions of 140 species, subspecies and varieties of plants, especially in the palm family [2]

Contents

Education

Henderson was educated in Wycliffe College in Gloucestershire and Birkbeck College, University of London. [1] In 1986, he received 'The George H.M. Lawrence Memorial Award', in the amount of $2,000, presented by the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University and presented at the annual banquet of the Botanical Society of America. [3] He later received his Ph.D. from City University of New York in 1987. [1]

He joined the New York Botanic Garden in 1987. [1]

Works

He has authored several books, including The Palms of the Amazon [4] [5] and a field guide to the palms of the Americas. [6] [7]

The standard author abbreviation A.J.Hend. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. [8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Andrew J. Henderson Archived 23 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine . International Plant Science Center, New York Botanical Garden.
  2. ↑ International Plant Names Index
  3. ↑ "Lawrence Memorial Award | Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation". www.huntbotanical.org. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  4. ↑ Henderson, Andrew J. (1995). The Palms of the Amazon. Oxford University Press. ISBN   0-19-508311-3.
  5. ↑ Chazdon, Robin L. (1996). "Review of The Palms of the Amazon by Andrew Henderson". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 71 (1): 125–126. doi:10.1086/419298. ISSN   0033-5770.
  6. ↑ Henderson, Andrew; Gloria Galeano; Rodrigo Bernal (1995). Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN   0-691-08537-4.
  7. ↑ Chazdon, Robin L. (1996). "Review of Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas by Andrew Henderson, Gloria Galeano, & Rodrigo Bernal". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 71 (3): 409. doi:10.1086/419474. ISSN   0033-5770.
  8. ↑ International Plant Names Index. A.J.Hend.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.