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Didymosalpinx Norae
''Didymosalpinx'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is found in tropical Africa. Species * ''Didymosalpinx abbeokutae'' (Hiern) Keay * ''Didymosalpinx callianthus'' J.E.Burrows & S.M.Burrows * ''Didymosalpinx konguensis'' (Hiern) Keay * ''Didymosalpinx lanciloba'' (S.Moore Spencer Le Marchant Moore (1 November 1850 – 14 March 1931) was an English botanist. Biography Moore was born in Hampstead. He worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, from about 1870 to 1879, wrote a number of botanical papers, and then wo ...) Keay * '' Didymosalpinx norae'' (Swynn.) Keay References External links ''Didymosalpinx'' in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae Rubiaceae genera Gardenieae Flora of Africa Taxa named by Ronald William John Keay {{Rubiaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald William John Keay
Ronald William John Keay (20 May 1920 – 7 April 1998) was a British botanist, who did much of his work in tropical Africa. Keay was educated at the University of Oxford. He was an expert in West African forest flora working at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and at the Forest Herbarium Ibadan (FHI), part of the Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN), and was director of that institute from 1960 to 1962. He collected specimens in Rhodesia, Nigeria, West Cameroon, the Congo, Rhodesia and Zambia. During the 1970s and '80s he was a member, council member, treasurer and vice president of the Royal Society. After his retirement from the Royal Society he served as president of the Institute of Biology and also the treasurer of the Linnean Society of London. Publications Books * * * * * * * Conference proceedings * * Species named in his honour * ''Habenaria keayi'' Summerh.Bot. Mus. Leafl. 14: 217 (1951).* ''Ledermanniella keayi'' (G.Taylor) C.Cusset, Adansonia sér. 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |