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Having a wing or wings. albumen Older name for the endosperm of flowering plants. Except for being a storage tissue for nutrients, it is not like the albumen of animal embryos. albuminous (of seed s) Containing endosperm.-ales Suffix added to the stem of a generic name or descriptive name to form the name of a taxonomic order. alien
Alate – having wing-like structures, usually on the seeds or stems, as in Euonymus alata. Alternate – buds are staggered on opposite sides of the branch. Bark – the outer layers of woody plants: cork, phloem, and vascular cambium. Branches – Bud – an immature stem tip, typically an embryonic shoot, either producing a stem, leaves, or ...
William Stearn (1911–2001) was one of the pre-eminent British botanists of the 20th century: a Librarian of the Royal Horticultural Society, a president of the Linnean Society and the original drafter of the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants. [2] [3]
This is an incomplete list of botanists by their author abbreviation, which is designed for citation with the botanical names or works that they have published. This list follows that established by Brummitt & Powell (1992). [1]
Burbank birthplace in Lancaster, Massachusetts. Luther Burbank (March 7, 1849 – April 11, 1926), [1] an American botanist, horticulturist, and pioneer in agricultural science, developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career.
Frederick Traugott Pursh (or Friedrich Traugott Pursch) (February 4, 1774 – July 11, 1820) was a German–American botanist.. Born in Großenhain, in the Electorate of Saxony, under the name Friedrich Traugott Pursh, he was educated at Dresden Botanical Gardens, and emigrated to the United States in 1799.
John Bartram (June 3, 1699 – September 22, 1777) was an American botanist, horticulturist, and explorer, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for most of his career. . Swedish botanist and taxonomist Carl Linnaeus said he was the "greatest natural botanist in the w
Carl Sigismund Kunth (18 June 1788 – 22 March 1850) was a German botanist.He was also known as Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth. He was one of the early systematic botanists who focused on studying the plants of the Americas.