Andrew Henderson (botanist)

Andrew J. Henderson
BornSeptember 8, 1950 (1950-09-08) (age 76)
Surrey, England
CitizenshipUnited States
Scientific career
FieldsBotany, Palm systematics
WorkplacesInstitute of Systematic Botany, New York Botanical Garden
A.J.Hend.

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

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. He later received his Ph.D. from City University of New York in 1987.

He joined the New York Botanic Garden in 1987.

Works

He has authored several books, including The Palms of the Amazon and a field guide to the palms of the Americas.

The standard author abbreviation A.J.Hend. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Andrew J. Henderson Archived 23 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine. International Plant Science Center, New York Botanical Garden.
  2. ↑ International Plant Names Index
  3. ↑ "Lawrence Memorial Award | Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation". www.huntbotanical.org. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  4. ↑ Henderson, Andrew J. (1995). The Palms of the Amazon. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-508311-3.
  5. ↑ Chazdon, Robin L. (1996). "Review of The Palms of the Amazon by Andrew Henderson". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 71 (1): 125–126. doi:10.1086/419298. ISSN 0033-5770.
  6. ↑ Henderson, Andrew; Gloria Galeano; Rodrigo Bernal (1995). Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-08537-4.
  7. ↑ Chazdon, Robin L. (1996). "Review of Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas by Andrew Henderson, Gloria Galeano, & Rodrigo Bernal". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 71 (3): 409. doi:10.1086/419474. ISSN 0033-5770.
  8. ↑ International Plant Names Index. A.J.Hend.