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Ivan Murray Johnston

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Name
  
Ivan Johnston


Died
  
May 31, 1960

Education
  
Harvard University (1922–1925)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada

I. M. (Ivan Murray) Johnston (1898–1960), was a United States botanist. He studied at Pomona College in Claremont, California and at Harvard University. His plant collections are housed in the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, in Claremont, and in the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University.

His areas of interest, were, among others: Pteridophytes, Spermatophytes

Taxa named by Johnston

  • Fitzroya cupressoides
  • Leucophyllum frutescens
  • Astragalus sprucei
  • Euplassa
  • Euplassa occidentalis
  • Fuchsia hypoleuca
  • References

    Ivan Murray Johnston Wikipedia