• Botanists that made important contributions to agrostology include: •
Norman Loftus Bor, In 1962 the
Linnean Society awarded him their gold medal, the highest recognition a botanist can receive •
Jean Bosser, the plant
Euphorbia bosseri was named after her •
Aimée Antoinette Camus •
Mary Agnes Chase, named 667 species •
William Derek Clayton, specialized in
Hyparrhenia •
Thomas Arthur Cope •
Eduard Hackel, The genus
Hackelochloa (Poaceae) is named for him. •
A. S. Hitchcock, edited and distributed two
exsiccatae, namely
Plants of Kansas and
American grasses •
Joseph Dalton Hooker, There are number (at least 30) of plants with specific name hookeri and hookeriana Many of them are named in honor of Joseph Dalton Hooker. Including
Banksia hookeriana,
Grevillea hookeriana,
Iris hookeriana,
Polygonatum hookeri,
Tainia hookeriana an orchid species in
Southern Taiwan. and
Sarcococca hookeriana, others include land snail
Notodiscus hookeri and
Phocarctos hookeri •
Charles Edward Hubbard, was considered "the world authority on the classification and recognition of grasses" in his time. • Robert B. Shaw •
Otto Stapf, wrote on the Graminae in
William Turner Thiselton Dyer's edition of the
Flora capensis (1898–1900) and published
Stapfiella, which is a genus of
flowering plants from Tropical Africa belonging to the family
Passifloraceae and named in his honour. •
Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel •
George Vasey, granted an honorary
M.A. in 1864 from
Illinois Wesleyan University. In 1869 he was made a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 1892, of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences; that same year he was representative to the 1892
International Botanical Congress in
Genoa, where he was a vice-president. • Jan-Frits Veldkar ==References==