Nguyên Tiên Bân
Nguyên Tiên Bân (born 1939) was a Vietnamese botanist, who worked principally at the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources in the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology. Life Bân was a Professor and served as the Head of the Botany Department at the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources in Hanoi. He worked primarily on Annonaceae and Magnoliaceae. Legacy He is the authority for at least 97 taxa In biology, a taxon (back-formation from ''taxonomy''; plural taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. Although neither is required, a taxon is usually known by a particular nam ... including: References Living people 1939 births Vietnamese botanists {{botanist-stub ...
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Botany
Botany, also called plant science (or plant sciences), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek word (') meaning " pasture", "herbs" " grass", or "fodder"; is in turn derived from (), "to feed" or "to graze". Traditionally, botany has also included the study of fungi and algae by mycologists and phycologists respectively, with the study of these three groups of organisms remaining within the sphere of interest of the International Botanical Congress. Nowadays, botanists (in the strict sense) study approximately 410,000 species of land plants of which some 391,000 species are vascular plants (including approximately 369,000 species of flowering plants), and approximately 20,000 are bryophytes. Botany originated in prehistory as herbalism with the efforts of early humans to identify – a ...
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