Vernon Heywood

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John McNeill, Barbara Pickersgill and Vernon Heywood (left to right)

Vernon Hilton Heywood (born December 24, 1927 in Edinburgh ) is a British biologist and botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Heywood ".

Live and act

Heywood works in the field of taxonomy and systematics . He is the first to describe numerous plant species. He distinguished himself particularly in the field of medicinal plants and plants containing essential oils and was dedicated to the preservation of wild forms of cultivated plants. To this end, he is researching ways of preserving the genetic makeup of dying plants.

Heywood is involved in or has initiated numerous initiatives to conserve biodiversity , such as the global network of botanical gardens, Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI). He was the coordinator of the UNEP Global Biodiversity Assessment.

He is (2009) Professor Emeritus at Reading University in England . He taught botany there and was director of the botanical garden . He was president of the International Council for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants .

Awards

Vernon H. Heywood received the Linné Medal of the Linnean Society of London in 1987 . Planta Europa presented him with their Linnaeus award at their fifth conference in 2007 in Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg) . The book Taxonomy and Plant Conservation (Cambridge University Press, 2006, editors Etelka Leadlay and Stephen Jury) was dedicated to Heywood on the occasion of his 75th birthday.

The plant genus Heywoodiella Svent is named after Heywood . & Bramwell from the Asteraceae family.

Publications (selection)

  • Taxonomy of Plants, Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1971, no ISBN
  • with Peter Hadland Davis : Principles of angiosperm taxonomy. Huntington, New York 1973.
  • as editor Flowering Plants of the World, Andromeda Oxford, Abingdon, 1978, ISBN 0-19-521037-9
  • as ed. with Thomas Gaskell Tutin : Flora Europaea . Volume 1-5. Cambridge University Press, Oxford 1964-1983.
  • The Biodiversity Crisis and Global Change. In: 100 Years in Berlin-Dahlem - International Scientific Symposium - Botanic Gardens: Awareness for Biodiversity, Program and Abstracts: Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, 2004, page 18.
  • With Edward S. Ayensu, Grenville L. Lucas and Robert A. Defilipps Our Green and Living World. The Wisdom to Save It. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC and Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, Cambridge (England), 1984, ISBN 0-521-26842-7
  • With Elizabeth Dowdeswell Global Biodiversity Assessment , Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, Cambridge (England), 1995, ISBN 0-521-56403-4 and ISBN 0-521-56481-6 (paperback)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Planta Europe: The winners of the conference in Romania ( Memento of the original from November 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.plantaeuropa.org
  2. ↑ The International Council on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
  3. ↑ Recipient of the Linnean Medal (PDF, 96 kB) .
  4. ↑ Catalog page of the publisher with the text of the dedication.
  5. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

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personal data
SURNAME Heywood, Vernon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heywood, Vernon Hilton; Heywood, Vernon H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British biologist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh