Margot Bernice Ashwin
Margot Bernice Ashwin , married Margot Forde ( 1935 - June 23, 1992 in Palmerston North ) was a New Zealand botanist . Your official botanical author abbreviation is " Ashwin "; earlier the abbreviation “ Ashw. " in use.
She worked in the Department of Botany at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand . The New Zealand Forage Germplasm Center plant seed bank in Palmerston North has been renamed the Margot Forde Forage Germplasm Center in her honor . She went on research trips to Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang in China as well as to the Caucasus .
Works
- Understanding Plant Names and their Changes . In: Tuatara . tape 7 , no. December 2 , 1958.
literature
- 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 .
Individual evidence
- ^ MB Forde & E. Edgar: Checklist of pooid grasses naturalized in New Zealand. 3. Tribes Bromeae and Brachypodieae. In: New Zealand Journal of Botany , Volume 33, Number 1, 1995, pp. 35-42, ( digitized ).
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Margot Bernice Ashwin at the IPNI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ashwin, Margot Bernice |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Forde, Margot; Ashwin, Margot B. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | New Zealand botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1935 |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 23, 1992 |
| Place of death | Palmerston North , New Zealand |