A herbarium is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study.
Alexander Segger George is an Australian botanist. He is an authority on the plant genera Banksia and Dryandra. The "bizarre" Restionaceae genus Alexgeorgea was named in his honour in 1976.
William Thomas Stearn was a British botanist. Born in Cambridge in 1911, he was largely self-educated and developed an early interest in books and natural history. His initial work experience was at a Cambridge bookshop, but he also had an occupation as an assistant in the university botany department. At the age of 29, he married Eldwyth Ruth Alford, who later became his collaborator.
John Patrick Micklethwait Brenan (1917–1985) was a British botanist who became director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Bernard Verdcourt was a biologist and taxonomist, most widely known as a botanist and latterly an honorary research fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London. Prior to coming to Kew in 1964, he was associated with the East African Herbarium for 15 years. Although his best-known work probably consists of his many studies of the East African flora, he has also made extensive contributions relating to African terrestrial mollusks and to entomology. Dr. Verdcourt received the Linnean Medal for botany from the Linnean Society of London in 2000. His list of publications includes more than 1,000 scientific works. The standard author abbreviation Verdc. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
Gossia is a genus of rainforest trees in the myrtle family first described as a genus in 2003 by Neil Snow, Gordon Guymer and Sawvel. It is native to northeastern Australia as well as several islands of Papuasia and New Caledonia.
Charles Edward Hubbard was a British botanist, specialising in agrostology – the study of grasses. He was considered "the world authority on the classification and recognition of grasses" in his time.
John Dransfield is former head of palm research at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom.
Henk Jaap Beentje is a Dutch botanist. In 1978 he obtained a masters in biology at the University of Amsterdam. He obtained his PhD at the Wageningen Agricultural University on the thesis A monograph on Strophanthus DC. (Apocynaceae), prepared under the direction of Hendrik de Wit and A.J.M. Leeuwenberg, in 1982.
Stockwellia is a monotypic genus in the flowering plant family Myrtaceae. The sole species in the genus, Stockwellia quadrifida, is endemic to Queensland.
Lithomyrtus obtusa, commonly known as beach myrtella, is a flowering plant species in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. It occurs in coastal areas in New Guinea and Queensland, Australia.
Peter Shaw Green was an English botanist.
James W. Byng is a British botanist who is managing director and scientific curator at Hortus Botanicus Delft, an associate of Plant Gateway, and a visiting research fellow at Naturalis Biodiversity Center. He was trained at the University of Aberdeen, Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Marian Muriel Whiting was a British horticulturalist and plant collector, notable for collecting plants from Hong Kong and Guangzhou. She was born in London and spent a portion of her childhood in Hong Kong before studying at London University. Over 600 of her specimens were donated to the Kew Botanical Gardens. In 1940, she became a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, and volunteered at Kew for many years. The standard author abbreviation Whiting is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
Grenville 'Gren' Llewellyn Lucas was a British botanist, conservationist, and Keeper of the Herbarium and Library at Kew Gardens.
The Flore des Mascareignes is a flora, in French, covering the three islands in the Mascarenes: Réunion, Mauritius and Rodrigues.
Brian Martin Spooner is an English mycologist who was head of mycology at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Susyn M. Andrews is a British taxonomic horticulturist. Her research has focussed on temperate and subtropical woody plants, especially Holly and Lavender.
David Bramwell MBE was an English botanist and taxonomist, director of the Jardín Botánico Canario Viera y Clavijo, Gran Canaria (1974–2012), and active in the conservation of insular floras.
Sclerolaena parviflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae, found in every mainland state and territory of Australia. It was first described in 1923 by Robert Henry Anderson as Bassia parviflora, but was transferred to the genus, Sclerolaena in 1978 by Andrew John Scott.
