Andrew Henderson (botanist)
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| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|September 8, 1950}}[http://www.nybg.org/science/scientist_profile.php?id_scientist=7 Andrew J. Henderson] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090423054831/http://www.nybg.org/science/scientist_profile.php?id_scientist=7 |date=23 April 2009 }}. International Plant Science Center, New York Botanical Garden.
| birth_place = Surrey, England
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| citizenship = United States
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| fields = Botany, Palm systematics
| workplaces = Institute of Systematic Botany, New York Botanical Garden
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Andrew James Henderson (born September 8, 1950) is a palm-systematist and Curator of the Institute of Systematic Botany at the New York Botanical Garden. He has authored taxonomic descriptions of 140 species, subspecies and varieties of plants, especially in the palm family[http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_family=&find_genus=&find_species=&find_infrafamily=&find_infragenus=&find_infraspecies=&find_authorAbbrev=A.J.Hend.&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_publicationTitle=&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isAPNIRecord=false&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=false&find_isIKRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=false&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_sortByFamily=on&find_sortByFamily=off&query_type=by_query&back_page=plantsearch International Plant Names Index]
Education
Henderson was educated in Wycliffe College in Gloucestershire and Birkbeck College, University of London. In 1986, he received 'The George H.M. Lawrence Memorial Award', in the amount of $2,000, presented by the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University and presented at the annual banquet of the Botanical Society of America.{{cite web |title=Lawrence Memorial Award {{!}} Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation |url=https://www.huntbotanical.org/about/?8 |website=www.huntbotanical.org |access-date=15 July 2021}} He later received his Ph.D. from City University of New York in 1987.
Works
He has authored several books, including The Palms of the Amazon{{cite book |last=Henderson |first=Andrew J. |title=The Palms of the Amazon |year=1995 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-508311-3 }}{{cite journal|last1=Chazdon|first1=Robin L.|title=Review of The Palms of the Amazon by Andrew Henderson|journal=The Quarterly Review of Biology|volume=71|issue=1|year=1996|pages=125–126|issn=0033-5770|doi=10.1086/419298}} and a field guide to the palms of the Americas.{{cite book |last=Henderson |first=Andrew |author2=Gloria Galeano |author2-link=Gloria Galeano |author3=Rodrigo Bernal |author3-link=Rodrigo Bernal |title=Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas |year=1995 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, New Jersey |isbn=0-691-08537-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zZ2flHoGLtcC}}{{cite journal|last1=Chazdon|first1=Robin L.|title=Review of Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas by Andrew Henderson , Gloria Galeano , & Rodrigo Bernal|journal=The Quarterly Review of Biology|volume=71|issue=3|year=1996|page=409|issn=0033-5770|doi=10.1086/419474}}
{{botanist|A.J.Hend.|Henderson, Andrew J.}}
References
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External links
- {{cite web|title=Henderson, Andrew James|website=Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries|url=https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?botanistid=50469}}
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Category:Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London