Rupert Charles Barneby (6 October 1911 – 5 December 2000) was a British-born self-taught
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 ...
whose primary specialty was the
(
), the pea family, but he also worked on
Menispermaceae 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
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,''
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Barnebyella'', ''
Barnebydendron
''Barnebydendron riedelii'', also known as monkey-flower tree ( th, ประดู่แดง), is a species of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Detarioideae. It is the only member of the genus ''Barn ...
'', and ''
Rupertia''. He received numerous prestigious botanical awards, including 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, ...
's Henry Allan Gleason Award (1980), the
American Society of Plant Taxonomists The American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT) is a 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 contribute to and b ...
' Asa Gray Award (1989), the
International Association for Plant Taxonomy
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's
Engler Silver Medal (1992), and the
International Botanical Congress
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'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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:Taxa named by Rupert Charles Barneby
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External links
Barneby Legume Catalogue Digital Monographs and Specimens. Providing access to the life and research of Rupert C. Barneby.
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Welsh botanists
1911 births
2000 deaths
Botanists active in North America
Botanists with author abbreviations
20th-century American botanists
British emigrants to the United States