Elizabeth Dorothy Wuist Brown (1880–1972) was 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 ...

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apogamy In botany, apomixis is asexual reproduction without fertilization. Its etymology is Greek for "away from" + "mixing". This definition notably does not mention meiosis. Thus "normal asexual reproduction" of plants, such as propagation from cuttin ...

in plants, as well as flora of New Zealand, French Polynesia, and Hawaii. She was married to botanist Forest Buffen Harkness Brown, with whom she was a coauthor.

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