Rupert Charles Barneby (6 October 1911 – 5 December 2000) was a British-born self-taught

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

whose primary specialty was the

Fabaceae Fabaceae () or Leguminosae,International Code of Nomen ...

(

Leguminosae Fabaceae () or Leguminosae,International Code of Nomen ...

), the pea family, but he also worked on

Menispermaceae Menispermaceae (botanical Latin: 'moonseed family' from Greek ''mene'' 'crescent moon' and ''sperma'' 'seed') is a family (biology), family of flowering plants. The alkaloid tubocurarine, a neuromuscular blocker and the active ingredient in the ...

and numerous other groups. He was employed by the

New York Botanical Garden The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) is a botanical garden at Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York City. Established in 1891, it is located on a site that contains a landscape with over one million living plants; the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, ...

from the 1950s until shortly before his death. Barneby published prolifically and named and described over 1,100 new species. In addition, he had 25 species named after him as well as four genera: '' Barnebya,'' '' Barnebyella'', '' Barnebydendron'', and ''

Rupertia ''Rupertia'' is a small genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. There are three species native to western North America, especially California California () is a U.S. state, state ...

''. He received numerous prestigious botanical awards, including The

's Henry Allan Gleason Award (1980), the

American Society of Plant Taxonomists The American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT) is a botany, botanical organization formed in 1935 to "foster, encourage, and promote education and research in the field of plant taxonomy, to include those areas and fields of study that contribut ...

' Asa Gray Award (1989), the

International Association for Plant Taxonomy The International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) is an organization established to promote an understanding of plant biodiversity, facilitate international communication of research between botanists, and oversee matters of uniformity and ...

's Engler Silver Medal (1992), and the

International Botanical Congress International Botanical Congress (IBC) is an international meeting of Botany, botanists in all scientific fields, authorized by the International Association of Botanical and Mycological Societies (IABMS) and held every six years, with the locatio ...

's Millennium Botany Award (1999). His lifelong partner was Harry Dwight Dillon Ripley (1908–1973), with whom he collected botanical specimens across the western United States – particularly from the Fabaceae.

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Barneby Legume Catalogue
Digital Monographs and Specimens. Providing access to the life and research of Rupert C. Barneby.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Barneby, Rupert Charles Welsh botanists 1911 births 2000 deaths Botanists active in North America Botanists with author abbreviations 20th-century American botanists Welsh emigrants to the United States

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