Edward Johnston Alexander
Edward Johnston Alexander (born July 31, 1901 in Asheville , North Carolina , † 1985 ) was an American botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Alexander ".
He worked at the New York Botanical Garden . His specialty were the cactus plants (Cactaceae). For the US botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton's Flora of North America , he contributed to volume 19 number 1 “Pontederiaceae” (1937), together with EE Sheriff to volume 2 of the second series “Compositae-Coreopsidinae” (1955). Alexander was the editor of Addisonia .
Works
- together with Carol H. Woodward: Flora of The Unicorn Tapestries . 1941.
- Succulent Plants of New and Old World Deserts . 1942.
literature
- Rupert C. Barneby: Edward Johnston Alexander (1901-1985) . In: Taxon . tape 35 , no. 4 , November 1986, pp. 934 .
Web links
- Author entry and list of described plant names for Edward Johnston Alexander at the IPNI
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- Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .
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| SURNAME | Alexander, Edward Johnston |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Asheville , North Carolina |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1985 |