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Zinaida Botschantzeva

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Citizenship
  
Soviet Union

Fields
  
Botany, Embryology

Name
  
Zinaida Botschantzeva

Nationality
  
Russian


Zinaida Botschantzeva

Born
  
10 August 1907 (
1907-08-10
)

Died
  
August 17, 1973, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Author abbrev. (botany)
  
Botschantz

Zinaida Petrovna Botschantzeva (10 August 1907 – 17 August 1973) was a Russian botanist and embryologist, professor of the Tashkent university.

Contents

Great contribution in studies of Central Asian tulips has been made by Z.P. Botschantzeva. She devoted all her life to studying of this genus of plants. In 1962 the book by Z.P. Botschantzeva was published and this book titled Tulips was rich in material on Central Asian and Caucasus wild tulips. This remarkable work was reissued in 1981 in the Netherlands. She has described 6 new tulip species from various regions of Central Asia.

Works

  • Botschantzeva, Z. P. (1982). Tulips: taxonomy, morphology, cytology, phytogeography and physiology. CRC Press. p. 120. ISBN 90-6191-029-3. 

    • Named for

  • Tulipa zenaidae Vved.
  • Tulipa botschantzevae S.N.Abramova & Zakalyabina.
  • Iris zenaidae (Vved.)

    • References

    Zinaida Botschantzeva Wikipedia
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