Edward Johnston Alexander

Edward Johnston Alexander
Born(1901-07-31)July 31, 1901
Asheville, North Carolina
DiedAugust 18, 1985(1985-08-18) (aged 84)
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
InstitutionsNew York Botanical Garden
Author abbrev. (botany)Alexander

Edward Johnston Alexander (July 31, 1901 – August 18, 1985) was an American botanist[1] who discovered three species and one genus.[2] He is the author or one of the authors of 205 entries in the International Plant Names Index.[3] He was born in Asheville, North Carolina and studied at North Carolina State University from 1919 to 1923.[4] He was a longtime assistant and curator at New York Botanical Garden (NYBG), originally under the guidance of Small.[5] While at the NYBG, he served as an editor of the Garden's botanical journal Addisonia for about thirty years, until the journal ceased publication in 1964.[citation needed]

Alexander undertook several botanical expeditions in his lifetime, including to Pecos, Texas with John Kunkel Small and to the southern Appalachians and the Rocky Mountains with Thomas H. Everett. His most successful expedition was to southern Mexico from 1944 to 1945. On that trip, he collected around 1,600 specimens and 1,000 seeds and roots for the herbarium and propagation houses at the New York Botanical Garden.[4]

Alexander never married. He died in 1985.[4]

Plant discoveries

Works

  • The Flora of the Unicorn Tapestries
  • Succulent Plants of New and Old World Deserts
  • The New York Botanical Garden – Trees-Shrubs
  • List of Seeds Distributed to Subscribers of the Southern Appalachian Expedition of the New York Botanical Garden 1933
  • Compositae – Heliantheae – Coreopsidinae
  • North American Flora. Series II: Part 2: Compositae. Heliantheae. Coreopsidinae
  • Report of the Southern Appalachian Expedition
  • Family Compositae, Tribe Heliantheae, Subtribe Coreopsidinae[6]
The standard author abbreviation Alexander is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[7]

References

  1. ^ Database (n.d.). "Index of Botanists – Alexander, Edward Johnston". Harvard University Herbaria. Retrieved February 14, 2012.
  2. ^ a b c d e Database (n.d.). "Index of Botanical Specimens – E. J. Alexander". Harvard University Herbaria. Retrieved February 14, 2012.
  3. ^ "Search for "Alexander"". International Plant Names Index. Retrieved March 11, 2021.
  4. ^ a b c Barneby, Rupert C. (November 1986), "Deaths: Edward Johnston Alexander", Taxon, 35 (4): 934
  5. ^ Taxonomic Literature II Online (n.d.). "Edward Johnston Alexander". Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Retrieved October 28, 2012.
  6. ^ "Edward Johnston Alexander". Retrieved February 6, 2012.
  7. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Alexander.
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