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, Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
James W. Byng | |
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| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Aberdeen |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany |
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| Author abbrev. (botany) | Byng |
He is an authority on the Myrtaceae genus Syzygium Gaertn. and is working on a global monograph for the group with regional collaborators.[1] He is also a co-author on the latest Angiosperm Phylogeny Group plant classification, APG IV,[2] and author of the comprehensive practical plant books The Flowering Plants Handbook[3][4] and The Gymnosperms Handbook[5]
The standard author abbreviation Byng is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]
References
edit- ^ "Syzygium (Myrtaceae): Monographing a taxonomic giant via 22 coordinated regional revisions" (PDF). PeerJ Preprints. 5 April 2016. doi:10.7287/peerj.preprints.1930v1. ISSN 2167-9843.
- ^ The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (1 May 2016). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 181 (1): 1–20. doi:10.1111/boj.12385. ISSN 1095-8339.
- ^ Byng JW. 2014. The Flowering Plants Handbook: A practical guide to families and genera of the world. Plant Gateway Ltd., Hertford, UK.
- ^ James W. Byng The Flowering Plants Handbook: A practical guide to families and genera of the world (2014) at Google Books
- ^ Byng, James W. (2015). The Gymnosperms Handbook. Hertford: Plant Gateway.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Byng.
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