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List of orchidologists

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This is a list of orchidologists, botanists specializing in the study of orchids. The list is sorted in the surname alphabetical order.

Contents

A

  • Oakes Ames (botanist) (1874–1950), an American biologist specializing in orchids

    • B

  • James Bateman (1811–1897), a British landowner and accomplished horticulturist
  • Carl Ludwig Blume (1796–1862), a German-Dutch botanist

    • C

  • James Boughtwood Comber (1929-2005), a British botanist
  • Eugène Jacob de Cordemoy (1835-1911), a French physician and botanist

    • D

  • Walter Davis (botanist)
  • John Day (botanist) (1824–1888), an English orchid-grower and collector, and is noted for producing some 4000 illustrations of orchid species
  • Margaret A. Dix (born 1939), English-born Guatemalan biologist, taxonomist
  • Donald Dungan Dod (1912–2008), an American missionary and orchidologist
  • Calaway H. Dodson (born 1928), an American botanist, orchidologist, and taxonomist
  • Robert Louis Dressler

    • E

  • Rica Erickson (1908–2009), an Australian naturalist, botanical artist, historian, author and teacher

    • F

  • Achille Eugène Finet (1863–1913), a French botanist best known for his study of orchids native to Japan and China
  • Ernesto Foldats (1925 – 2003), a Latvian-Venezuelan botanist and orchidologist
  • Noriaki Fukuyama (1912–1946), a Japanese botanist and orchidologist

    • G

  • Leslie Andrew Garay (born 1924), an American botanist
  • Samuel Goodenough (1743–1827), an amateur botanist and collector

    • H

  • Karl Theodor Hartweg (1812-1871), a German botanist
  • Alex Drum Hawkes (1927-1977), an American botanist and cookbook author from Coconut Grove, Florida & Kingston, Jamaica. Specialized in orchids, bromeliads, palm trees, ferns, vegetables & fruits.
  • Abel Aken Hunter (1877-1936), an American botanist in Panama

    • K

  • Carolus Adrianus Johannes Kreutz (born 1954), Dutch botanist and taxonomist, specialising in European orchids

    • L

  • Charles H. Lankester (1879-1969), British born, known for his orchid work in Costa Rica
  • Carlos Adolfo Lehnebach
  • Jean Jules Linden (1817-1898), a Belgian botanist and explorer, horticulturist and businessman, specialising in orchids
  • John Lindley
  • Hugh Low

    • M

  • Hanna Margońska (born 1968), a Polish botanist
  • Theodore Luqueer Mead (1852-1936), an American naturalist, entomologist and horticulturist known for his pioneering work on the growing and cross-breeding of orchids
  • Brian John Peter Molloy , New Zealand botanist
  • Henry Moon (1857-1905), an English landscape and botanical painter, noted for his orchid paintings

    • P

  • Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer (1846-1906), a German botanist specialist of the taxonomy of the Orchidaceae
  • Charles Wesley Powell (1854-1927), an American hobbyist and self-taught horticulturist specializing in the orchids of Panama
  • George Harry Pring a British born orchid and water lily specialist known for his work at the Missouri Botanical Garden

    • Q

  • Eduardo Quisumbíng (1895–1986), a Filipino plant biologist

    • R

  • Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823–1889), a botanist and the foremost German orchidologist of the 19th century
  • Benedikt Roezl (1823-1885), an Austrian traveller, gardener and botanist, probably the most famous collector of orchids of his time
  • Robert Allen Rolfe (1855–1921), a British botanist and the first curator of the orchid herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England

    • S

  • Henry Frederick Conrad Sander
  • Rudolf Schlechter (1872-1925), a German taxonomist, botanist and author of several works on orchids
  • Alexander Skutch
  • Paul Carpenter Standley an American botanist, specializing in the flora of Central America, including orchids
  • Olof Swartz (1760–1818), a Swedish botanist and taxonomist, and the first specialist of orchid taxonomy
  • Dariusz Szlachetko (born 1961), a Polish botanist

    • T

  • Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars (1758–1831), a French botanist known for his work collecting and describing orchids from the three islands of Madagascar, Mauritius and Réunion

    • V

  • Louis van Houtte (1810-1876), a Belgian horticulturist

    • W

  • Józef Warszewicz (1812-1866), a Polish botanist, plant and animal collector and biologist
  • Benjamin Samuel Williams (1822–1890), an English orchidologist and nurseryman in London

    • References

    List of orchidologists Wikipedia
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