Mark James Elgar Coode | |
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Born | 1937 |
Nationality | British |
Occupation | botanist |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Edinburgh,Royal Botanic Garden,Edinburgh,Forest Department of Lae,Royal Botanic Gardens,Kew |
Mark James Elgar Coode (born 1937) is a British botanist,taxonomic author and authority in the field of Elaeocarpaceae. [1]
Graduated in 1961 at the University of Cambridge,he moved to the University of Edinburgh,starting to work as an assistant to Peter Hadland Davis on the Flora of Turkey project,funded by the Science Research Council and based at the Royal Botanic Garden,Edinburgh;in recent years,together with James Cullen,who worked on the same project,he was the taxonomic author of some plants (for example Abies nordmanniana subsp. equi-trojani). [2] In 1966 he was appointed senior botanist in the Botanical Division of the Forest Department of Lae,Papua Niugini,a role that allowed him to collect and study several plant species of the mainland of PNG and of New Ireland,writing a forest manual on Combretaceae and working on the Melanesian Terminalia . In 1972 he was the first taxonomist assigned to work on the Flore des Mascareignes project at Kew. [3] In 1975 he was appointed chief scientific director of the herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens,Kew,a position he held until 1998,also becoming director of the Kew Bulletin from 1977 to 1990. He now lives near Monmouth,on the border with Wales. [4]
In addition to Papua New Guinea,he participated in botanical scientific expeditions to the Congo (1959) and Turkey (1962,1965). [5]
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Abies nordmanniana, the Nordmann fir or Caucasian fir, is a fir indigenous to the mountains south and east of the Black Sea, in Turkey, Georgia and the Russian Caucasus. It occurs at altitudes of 900–2,200 m on mountains with precipitation of over 1,000 mm.
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