Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. An internationally important botanical research and education institution, it employs 1,100 staff. Its board of trustees is chaired by Dame Amelia Fawcett.
A botanical garden or botanic garden is a garden with a documented collection of living plants for the purpose of scientific research, conservation, display, and education. Typically plants are labelled with their botanical names. It may contain specialist plant collections such as cacti and other succulent plants, herb gardens, plants from particular parts of the world, and so on; there may be greenhouses, shadehouses, again with special collections such as tropical plants, alpine plants, or other exotic plants.
A herbarium is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study.
Phelline is a genus of shrubs and the sole member of the family Phellinaceae, a family of flowering plants endemic to New Caledonia. It is placed in the order Asterales and is related to two other small plant families: Alseuosmiaceae and Argophyllaceae. It contains ten species.
Professor David John Mabberley, is a British-born botanist, educator and writer. Among his varied scientific 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 dictionary of the vascular plants. The third edition was published in 2008 as Mabberley's Plant-book, for which he was awarded the Engler Medal in Silver in 2009. As of June 2017 Mabberley's Plant-book is in its fourth edition.
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 a position as an assistant in the university botany department. At the age of 29 he married Eldwyth Ruth Alford, who later became his collaborator, and he died in London in 2001.
Nancy Tyson Burbidge was an Australian systemic botanist, conservationist and herbarium curator.
Vernon Hilton Heywood was a British biologist. He specialised in medicinal and aromatic plants, and the conservation of wild relatives of plants.
John Dransfield is an honorary research fellow and former head of palm research at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom, as well as being an authority on the phylogenetic classification of palms.
Arisaema quinatum is a species of flowering plant in the arum family Araceae. It is a member of the Arisaema triphyllum complex, a group of closely related taxa in eastern North America. The specific name quinatum means "divided into five lobes", a reference to its characteristic leaves. It is commonly known as the southern Jack-in-the-pulpit but some refer to it as Preacher John.
Sibbaldia: the International Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture is an online journal which publishes "peer-reviewed articles and short notes on the cultivation, conservation, research, botany, history, landscaping, legislation, management, and curation of plants in botanic and other gardens." It was first published in 2003.
Mark James Elgar Coode is a British botanist, taxonomic author and authority in the field of Elaeocarpaceae.
Andrew John Scott is a British botanist.
Victoria Anne Wassell Graham née Smith, is a British botanist who worked at the Natural History Museum.
Grenville 'Gren' Llewellyn Lucas was a British botanist, conservationist, and Keeper of the Herbarium and Library at Kew Gardens.
Gail Linda Rowat Bromley MBE FLS was an English botanist who worked at Kew Gardens, initially as a taxonomist and then as education development manager.
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.
Charles Jeffrey was a British botanist.
Shahina Agha Ghazanfar is a Pakistani botanist and author best known for her work on plants from the Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan and East Africa.
William Derek Clayton, commonly known as Derek Clayton, was a British botanist who worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on grasses (Poaceae).
