Yevgenia Georgievna Pobedimova (1898-1973) was a Russian-Soviet

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 ...

and plant collector noted for describing over 270 species in Russia, Ukraine and North Asia.

Career

She received a Ph.D. in biological sciences from the Komarov Botanical Institute in Leningrad in the late 1930s and although in 1941 she was appointed as a senior research fellow, she was transferred to war work. In 1944 she returned to Leningrad, and participated in the restoration of the Botanical Institute. During the Second World War she initially worked in a hospital in Leningrad and then in 1942 was evacuated first to Frunze and finally to

Kazan Kazan ( ; rus, Казань, p=kɐˈzanʲ; tt-Cyrl, Казан, ''Qazan'', IPA: ɑzan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka rivers, covering a ...

. During her career, she was very active as a plant collector. In 1930-1931 she travelled to Mongolia and then to Central Asia in 1932. In 1946-1947 and 1949 she visited the Caucasus and Crimea and she was in the Mongolian Altai in 1953.

Publications

She was involved in production of monographs about several plant families, including

Apocynaceae Apocynaceae (from ''Apocynum'', Greek for "dog-away") is a family of flowering plants that includes trees, shrubs, herbs, stem succulents, and vines, commonly known as the dogbane family, because some taxa were used as dog poison Members of the ...

Thymelaeaceae The Thymelaeaceae are a cosmopolitan family of flowering plants composed of 50 genera (listed below) and 898 species.Zachary S. Rogers (2009 onwards)A World Checklist of Thymelaeaceae (version 1) Missouri Botanical Garden Website, St. Louis. It ...

and

Balsaminaceae The Balsaminaceae (commonly known as the balsam family) are a family of dicotyledonous plants, comprising two genera: '' Impatiens'', which consists of over 1000 species, and ''Hydrocera'', consisting of 1 species. The flowering plants may be an ...

, as well as working on numerous genera for the ''Botanical Atlas and the List of Plants of the Herbarium of the Flora of the USSR''. In the last years of her life, she published monographs of the genera

Honckenya ''Honckenya peploides'', the sea sandwort (UK) or seaside sandplant (Canada), is the only species in the genus ''Honckenya'' of the plant family Caryophyllaceae. Other common names include sea chickweed, sea pimpernal, sea-beach sandwort, and sea ...

Cakile ''Cakile'' is a genus within the flowering plant family Brassicaceae. Species in this genus are commonly known as searockets, though this name on its own is applied particularly to whatever member of the species is native or most common in the ...

, and Cochlearia. Her publications include: *Pobedimova E.G. Botanical field research in southeastern Mongolia // Transactions of the Mongolian Commission of the USSR Academy of Sciences. - L. , 1933. - Issue. 9. - S. 1-66. *Pobedimova E.G. (1935) Vegetation of the central part of the Mongolian Altai // Transactions of the Mongolian Commission of the USSR Academy of Sciences. - L. - Issue. 19. - S. 1-77.

Legacy

Several species were named in her honor, including *''Galium pobedimovae'' Balde, 2012 *''Taraxacum pobedimovae'' Schischk. , 1964 Taraxacum hybernum Steven, 1856 *''Viola pobedimovae'' Ye.V. Serg. , 1961 Viola nemoralis Kütz. , 1832

References

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