Alexei Ivanovich Vvedensky (russian: Алексей Иванович Введенский) was a Russian

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 ...

. He was an expert on the genera Allium and Tulipa. He carried out extensive explorations of

Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked cou ...

, and compiled the 1941-1962 'Flora Uzbekistana in conjunction' with R.R. Schreder and E.P. Korovin. He also contributed to the Tajikistan flora section, 'Flora Tadzhikskoj SSR' (which was edited by P.N. Ovczinnikov, 1963) and the

Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan,, pronounced or the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the south, and the People's Republic of China to the east. ...

flora, 'Flora Kirgiskoj SSR' (1950-1962) with B.K. Shishkin. He published a manual of Central Asian plants (in Russian) with R.V. Kamelin. An English edition of his treatment of the genus Allium from the 'Flora of the USSR' (1935) was then published in 1944 (with an English translation by H.K.A. Shaw). Vvedensky was a member of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

. In 1947, botanist Yevgeni Korovin published '' Vvedenskya'', which is a genus of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...

s from Uzbekistan belonging to the family

Apiaceae Apiaceae or Umbelliferae is a family of mostly aromatic flowering plants named after the type genus ''Apium'' and commonly known as the celery, carrot or parsley family, or simply as umbellifers. It is the 16th-largest family of flowering plants ...

and it was named in Alexei Ivanovich Vvedensky's honour. Among the many species also named in his honour is 'Vvedensky's Tulip', '' Tulipa vvedenskyi'' . 446 names of plant species have been published by Vvedensky.

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* A.A. Fedorov, 1971, "Floristics in the USSR", BioScience, 21(11): 515 * D.G. Frodin, 2001, Guide to Standard Floras of the World: 685. Soviet botanists 1898 births 1972 deaths National University of Uzbekistan alumni {{Russia-botanist-stub