Richard Kenneth Brummitt

Richard Kenneth "Dick" Brummitt (born May 22, 1937 in Liverpool ; † September 18, 2013 ) was a British botanist . His botanical author abbreviation is " Brummitt ".

Live and act

Brummitt worked on the herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew . The focus of his work included the flora Zambesiaca , the African representatives of the legumes (Fabaceae), the plant genus of the bindweed ( Calystegia ) and the botanical nomenclature in general. His standard work on the botanical nomenclature Authors of Plant Names , published in 1992 together with C. Emma Powell , has also been listed as the International Plant Names Index (IPNI) database at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew since 1998 .

Fonts (selection)

• RK Brummitt: Index to European taxonomic literature . 1966, 1968, 1969 (from 1968 together with Ian Keith Ferguson ; published in Regnum Vegetabile ).
• RK Brummitt, CE Powell: Authors of plant names. A list of authors of scientific names of plants, with recommended standard forms of their names, including abbreviations . Royal Botan. Gardens, Kew 1992, ISBN 0-947643-44-3 .
• RK Brummitt: Vascular plant families and genera . Royal Botan. Gardens, Kew 1992, ISBN 0-947643-43-5 . [1]
• RK Brummitt: World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions . TDWG, 2001 [2]

supporting documents

• 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

1. ^ Dick Brummitt passing , Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) website, September 24, 2013, accessed April 14, 2020.
2. ↑ See Flora Zambesiaca .

• Obituary in Kew Bulletin doi: 10.1007 / s12225-014-9522-0
• Obituary in taxon [3]

Web links

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Richard Kenneth Brummitt at the IPNI