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Taxa Named By John J. Pipoly III
* by John James Pipoly III (born 1955) – an American botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo .... {{DEFAULTSORT:Pipoly III, John J. Pipoly III, John J. Taxa by American author ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John James Pipoly III
John James Pipoly III (born September 5, 1955) is an American botanist and plant collector. He is a leading expert on the systematics and taxonomy of the genus '' Ardisia'' within the Myrsinoideae, as well as the family Clusiaceae. Biology Pipoly graduated in 1978 with a B.Sc. in botany from Michigan State University. In 1986 he graduated with a Ph.D. in botany from the City University of New York (CUNY) as part of a joint program between CUNY and the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG). His thesis "Monograph of ''Cybianthus'' p. p. (Myrsinaceae)" was supervised by Scott A. Mori. In 1986 in the Bronx, Pipoly married Fabiola Monje. The newlyweds arrived in Guyana in April 1986, where John J. Pipoly III was the first resident collector on the "Flora of the Guianas" Program sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution, two universities, and five other institutes. After 13 months in Guyana, where he collected thousands of botanical specimens, he and his wife returned to the US, where he had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botanist
Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek word (''botanē'') meaning "pasture", " herbs" "grass", or " fodder"; is in turn derived from (), "to feed" or "to graze". Traditionally, botany has also included the study of fungi and algae by mycologists and phycologists respectively, with the study of these three groups of organisms remaining within the sphere of interest of the International Botanical Congress. Nowadays, botanists (in the strict sense) study approximately 410,000 species of land plants of which some 391,000 species are vascular plants (including approximately 369,000 species of flowering plants), and approximately 20,000 are bryophytes. Botany originated in prehistory as herbalism with the efforts of early humans to identify – and later cultivate – edible, med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botanical Taxa By Author
Botany, also called plant science (or plant sciences), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek word (') meaning "pasture", "herbs" "grass", or "fodder"; is in turn derived from (), "to feed" or "to graze". Traditionally, botany has also included the study of fungi and algae by mycologists and phycologists respectively, with the study of these three groups of organisms remaining within the sphere of interest of the International Botanical Congress. Nowadays, botanists (in the strict sense) study approximately 410,000 species of land plants of which some 391,000 species are vascular plants (including approximately 369,000 species of flowering plants), and approximately 20,000 are bryophytes. Botany originated in prehistory as herbalism with the efforts of early humans to identify – and later cultiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
