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M.C.Johnst.
Marshall Conring Johnston (born May 10, 1930) is an American botanist who made several explorations in Mexico and specialized in plants in the family Gesneriaceae. Johnston was born in San Antonio in the family of Theodore Harris Johnston and Lucile Mary Conring. He went on his first botanical expeditions to Mexico while still in high school during 1945-1947. On those trips he visited the northern Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Durango, and Zacatecas. From 1972-1974 he made trips to Chihuahua (state), Chihuahua, concentrating on desert flora. These early 1970s trips resulted in the bulk of his botanic collection. Marshal participated in the creation of the books ''Flora of Texas'', ''Flora of North America'', and ''Flora Neotropica''. Johnston was also a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Plant namesakes * ''Marshalljohnstonia'' (genus), James Solberg Henrickson, Henrickson, 1976 * ''Colubrina johnstonii'', T.Wendt, 1983 * ''Crataegus johnstonii' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Solberg Henrickson
James Solberg Henrickson (born 1940) is an American botanist born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He was a Professor of Biology at California State University, Los Angeles. He is currently a research fellow at the Plant Resources Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Select publications * 1964. ''Pollen morphology of Fouquieriaceae''. Thesis (M.A.), Claremont Graduate School. 110 pp. * 1968 ''Vegetative Morphology of the Fouquieriacae''. Dissertation (PhD), Claremont Graduate School 234 pp. * 1969. ''The Succulent Fouquierias''. 7 pp. * 1973. '' Fouquieriacea DC.'' Volumen 1 of World Pollen and Spore Flora. Ed. Almqvist & Wiksell Periodical Co. 12 pp. * Richard Stephen Felger. 1973. ''Microanalysis and Identification of a Basket Fragment from Sonora, Mexico''. 7 pp. Books * 1969. ''Anatomy of Periderm and Cortex of Fouquieriaceae''. 30 pp. * 1971. ''Vascular Flora of the Northeast Outer Slopes of Haleakala Crater, East Maui, Hawaii''. Nº 7 of Contributions from the Nature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |