James W. Byng is a British botanist who is Managing Director and Scientific Curator at Hortus Botanicus Delft
TU Delft Botanic Garden
, an associate of Plant Gateway, and a Visiting Research Fellow at Naturalis Biodiversity Center. He was trained at the

University of Aberdeen , mottoeng = The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom , established = , type = Public research universityAncient university , endowment = £58.4 million (2021) , budget ...

Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) is a scientific centre for the study of plants, their diversity and conservation, as well as a popular tourist attraction. Founded in 1670 as a physic garden to grow medicinal plants, today it occupies ...

and

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. An internationally important botanical research and education institution, it employs 1,10 ...

. He is an authority on the Myrtaceae genus ''

Syzygium ''Syzygium'' () is a genus of flowering plants that belongs to the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. The genus comprises about 1200 species, and has a native range that extends from Africa and Madagascar through southern Asia east through the Pacific. ...

'' Gaertn. and is working on a global monograph for the group with regional collaborators. He is also a co-author on the latest

Angiosperm Phylogeny Group The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) is an informal international group of systematic botanists who collaborate to establish a consensus on the taxonomy of flowering plants (angiosperms) that reflects new knowledge about plant relationships disc ...

plant classification, APG IV, and author of the comprehensive practical plant books ''The Flowering Plants Handbook'' and ''The Gymnosperms Handbook''

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Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British botanists Alumni of the University of Aberdeen {{UK-botanist-stub