James W. Byng

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James W. Byng
Alma mater University of Aberdeen
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
Institutions
Author abbrev. (botany) Byng

James W. Byng is a British botanist who is the Director of TU Delft Hortus Botanicus (TU Delft Botanic Garden) since 2021. He was trained at the University of Aberdeen, Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

He is an authority on the Myrtaceae genus Syzygium Gaertn. and is working on a global monograph for the group with regional collaborators. [1] He is also a co-author on the latest Angiosperm Phylogeny Group plant classification, APG IV, [2] and author of the comprehensive practical plant books The Flowering Plants Handbook [3] [4] and The Gymnosperms Handbook [5]

The standard author abbreviation Byng is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. [6]

References

  1. ↑ "Syzygium (Myrtaceae): Monographing a taxonomic giant via 22 coordinated regional revisions" (PDF). PeerJ Preprints. 5 April 2016. doi: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.1930v1 . ISSN   2167-9843.
  2. ↑ The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (1 May 2016). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 181 (1): 1–20. doi: 10.1111/boj.12385 . ISSN   1095-8339.
  3. ↑ Byng JW. 2014. The Flowering Plants Handbook: A practical guide to families and genera of the world. Plant Gateway Ltd., Hertford, UK.
  4. ↑ James W. Byng The Flowering Plants Handbook: A practical guide to families and genera of the world (2014) at Google Books
  5. ↑ Byng, James W. (2015). The Gymnosperms Handbook. Hertford: Plant Gateway.
  6. ↑ International Plant Names Index. Byng.


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