Evgenii Borisovich Alexeev (russian: Евгений Борисович Алексеев) was a

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

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 ...

Biography

He was born May 13, 1946 in Moscow. In 1965 he joined the Biological Faculty of Moscow State University. In 1967 he took part in the expedition Mescherskaya Botanical Garden of Moscow University. While at the university he studied the systematics of the family

Poaceae Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...

. Since 1972 he worked as a researcher at Alekseev MSU Botanical Garden. In 1973, working under Professor Alexey Konstantinovich Skvortsov he defended his PhD thesis, titled "Systematics fescues group Intravaginales Hack. section Festuca European part of Russia and the Caucasus." Subsequently, Alexeev was going to create a monograph of

fescue ''Festuca'' (fescue) is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the grass family Poaceae (subfamily Pooideae). They are evergreen or herbaceous perennial tufted grasses with a height range of and a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on every ...

s worldwide. According to his requests herbarium specimens were sent to Moscow from London, New York, Paris, Copenhagen, Geneva, Washington and other botanical repositories. Alexeev did not finish monographic treatment of all kinds of fescue, but published several regional monographs. These include "Fescue Caucasus" (1980) and part of the "Guide to the Plants Meshchora." He was also the author of the translation of the book by Charles Jeffery, "Botanical nomenclature." As a doctoral dissertation he prepared an iconography of fescues, which remained unfinished.

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