Marshall Conring Johnston (born May 10, 1930) is an American botanist who made several explorations in Mexico and specialized in plants in the family
Gesneriaceae
Gesneriaceae, the gesneriad family, is a family of flowering plants consisting of about 152 genera and ca. 3,540 species in the tropics and subtropics of the Old World (almost all Didymocarpoideae) and the New World (most Gesnerioideae), wi ...
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Johnston was born in
San Antonio
("Cradle of Freedom")
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in the family of Theodore Harris Johnston and Lucile Mary Conring. He went on his first botanical expeditions to Mexico while still in high school during 1945-1947. On those trips he visited the northern Mexican states of
Tamaulipas
Tamaulipas (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tamaulipas ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Tamaulipas), is a state in the northeast region of Mexico; one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entiti ...
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* Nuevo (band), featuring singer and musician Peter Godwin
* Nuevo (Bayamón), a settlement in Puerto Rico
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Coahuila,
Durango, and
Zacatecas
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. From 1972-1974 he made trips to
Chihuahua, concentrating on desert flora. These early 1970s trips resulted in the bulk of his botanic collection. Marshal participated in the creation of the books ''Flora of Texas'', ''Flora of North America'', and ''Flora Neotropica''. Johnston was also a professor at the
University of Texas at Austin
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Plant namesakes
* ''
Marshalljohnstonia'' (genus),
Henrickson, 1976
* ''
Colubrina johnstonii'', T.Wendt, 1983
* ''
Crataegus johnstonii'', J.B.Phipps, 1997
* ''
Euphorbia johnstonii'', Mayfield, 1991
* ''
Frankenia johnstonii'', Correll, 1966
* ''
Hedeoma johnstonii
''Hedeoma'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is native to North and South America. They are commonly known as false pennyroyals.
The genus name is derived from the Greek words ἡδύς (''hedys''), meaning "swe ...
'', R.S.Irving, 1977
* ''
Karwinskia johnstonii'', R.Fernández, 1988
* ''
Matelea johnstonii'', Shinners, 1964
* ''
Nerisyrenia johnstonii'', J.D.Bacon, 1978
* ''
Phacelia marshall-johnstonii'', N.D.Atwood & Pinkava, 1977
* ''
Portulaca johnstonii'', Henrickson, 1981
* ''
Johnstonalia'', Tortosa, 2006
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21st-century American botanists
1930 births
Living people
People from San Antonio
University of Texas at Austin people