James Solberg Henrickson (born 1940) is an American

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

born in

Eau Claire, Wisconsin Eau Claire ( ; lit. "clear water") is a city in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, Eau Claire and Chippewa County, Wisconsin, Chippewa counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It is the county seat, seat of Eau Claire County. It is the List of citie ...

. He was a Professor of Biology at California State University, Los Angeles. He is currently a research fellow at the Plant Resources Center at the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public university, public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 stud ...

Select publications

* 1964. ''Pollen morphology of Fouquieriaceae''. Thesis (M.A.), Claremont Graduate School. 110 pp. * 1968 ''Vegetative Morphology of the Fouquieriacae''. Dissertation (PhD), Claremont Graduate School 234 pp. * 1969. ''The Succulent Fouquierias''. 7 pp. * 1973. '' Fouquieriacea

DC. Augustin Pyramus (or Pyrame) de Candolle (, , ; 4 February 17789 September 1841) was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched de Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at a herbarium. Within a couple of years de Candolle ...

'' Volumen 1 of World Pollen and Spore Flora. Ed. Almqvist & Wiksell Periodical Co. 12 pp. * Richard Stephen Felger. 1973. ''Microanalysis and Identification of a Basket Fragment from Sonora, Mexico''. 7 pp.

Books

* 1969. ''Anatomy of Periderm and Cortex of Fouquieriaceae''. 30 pp. * 1971. ''Vascular Flora of the Northeast Outer Slopes of Haleakala Crater, East Maui, Hawaii''. Nº 7 of Contributions from the Nature Conservancy. Ed. Nature Conservancy. 14 pp. * 1972. ''A Taxonomic Revision of the Fouquieriacea''. Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Ed. 99 pp. * James S. Henrickson, Richard M. Straw. 1976. ''A Gazetteer of the Chihuahuan Desert Region: A Supplement to the Chihuahuan Desert Flora''. Ed. California State University. 271 pp. * Robert F. Thorne, Barry A. Prigge, James Henrickson. 1981. ''A Flora of the Higher Ranges and the Kelso Dunes of the Eastern Mojave Desert in California''. Ed. Southern California Botanists. 116 pp. * James Henrickson,

Lowell David Flyr Lowell David Flyr (1937–1971) was an American botanist. Born in Stratford, Texas, Flyr conducted his graduate thesis work at the University of Texas in Austin. He is known for his work on the genus ''Brickellia''. At the age of 33, Flyr committe ...

. 1985. ''Systematics of Leucophyllum and Eremogeton (Scrophulariaceae)''. Ed. F. Mahler. 66 pp.

Recognition

Species are named in his honor include: * (

Acanthaceae Acanthaceae () is a Family (biology), family (the acanthus family) of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing almost 250 genera and about 2500 species. Most are Tropics, tropical Herbaceous plant, herbs, shrubs, or twining vines; some are epip ...

) '' Carlowrightia henricksonii'' T.F.Daniel * (

Asteraceae Asteraceae () is a large family (biology), family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the Order (biology), order Asterales. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchi ...

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Gaillardia ''Gaillardia'' (common name blanket flower) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to North and South America. It was named after Maître Gaillard de Charentonneau, an 18th-century French magistrate who was an enthusias ...

henricksonii'' B.L.Turner * (

Boraginaceae Boraginaceae, the Borago, borage or forget-me-not family, includes about 2,000 species of shrubs, trees, and herbs in 146 to 154 genus, genera with a worldwide distribution. The APG IV system from 2016 classifies the Boraginaceae as single famil ...

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Cynoglossum ''Cynoglossum'' is a genus of small-flowered plants in the family Boraginaceae (borage family). It includes 81 species native to Eurasia, Africa, New Guinea, and Australia. '' Cynoglossum officinale'', the common hound's-tongue, is a native of A ...

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Brassicaceae Brassicaceae () or (the older but equally valid) Cruciferae () is a medium-sized and economically important Family (biology), family of flowering plants commonly known as the mustards, the crucifers, or the cabbage family. Most are herbaceous pla ...

) '' Mancoa henricksonii'' Rollins * (

Cactaceae A cactus (: cacti, cactuses, or less commonly, cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae (), a family of the order Caryophyllales comprising about 127 genera with some 1,750 known species. The word ''cactus'' derives, through Latin, ...

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Coryphantha ''Coryphantha'' (from Greek, "flowering on the top"), or beehive cactus, is a genus of small to middle-sized, globose or columnar cacti. The genus is native to arid parts of Central America, Mexico, through Arizona, New Mexico, and western Texas ...

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Glass Glass is an amorphous (non-crystalline solid, non-crystalline) solid. Because it is often transparency and translucency, transparent and chemically inert, glass has found widespread practical, technological, and decorative use in window pane ...

& R.A.Foster) Glass & R.A.Foster * (

Campanulaceae The family Campanulaceae (also bellflower family), of the order Asterales, contains nearly 2400 species in 84 genera of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and rarely small trees, often with milky sap. Among them are several familiar garden plants bel ...

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Lobelia ''Lobelia'' () is a genus of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae comprising 415 species, with a subcosmopolitan distribution primarily in tropical to warm temperate regions of the world, a few species extending into cooler temperate r ...

henricksonii'' M.C.Johnst. * (

Euphorbiaceae Euphorbiaceae (), the spurge family, is a large family of flowering plants. In English, they are also commonly called euphorbias, which is also the name of Euphorbia, the type genus of the family. Most spurges, such as ''Euphorbia paralias'', ar ...

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Euphorbia ''Euphorbia'' is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants, commonly called spurge, in the family (biology), family Euphorbiaceae. Euphorbias range from tiny annual plants to large and long-lived trees, with perhaps the tallest being ''Eu ...

henricksonii'' M.C.Johnst. * (

Malvaceae Malvaceae (), or the mallows, is a family of flowering plants estimated to contain 244 genera with 4225 known species. Well-known members of economic importance include Theobroma cacao, cacao, Cola (plant), cola, cotton, okra, Hibiscus sabdariffa, ...

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Anoda ''Anoda'' is a genus of flowering plants in the Malvaceae, mallow family. It includes 24 species of herbs, native to the subtropical and tropical Americas from the southwestern United States (Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas) through Mexico, Centra ...

henricksonii'' M.C.Johnst. * (

Polygonaceae The Polygonaceae are a Family (biology), family of flowering plants known Common name, informally as the knotweed family or smartweed—buckwheat family in the United States. The Botanical name, name is Basionym, based on the genus ''Polygonum'', ...

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Eriogonum ''Eriogonum'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Polygonaceae. The genus is found in North America and is known as wild buckwheat. This is a highly species-rich genus, and indications are that active speciation is continuing. It incl ...

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Ranunculaceae Ranunculaceae (, buttercup or crowfoot family; Latin "little frog", from "frog") is a family (biology), family of over 2,000 known species of flowering plants in 43 genera, distributed worldwide. The largest genera are ''Ranunculus'' (600 spec ...

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Thalictrum ''Thalictrum'' () is a genus of 120-200 species of herbaceous perennial flowering plants in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, native mostly to temperate regions. Meadow-rue is a common name for plants in this genus. ''Thalictrum'' is a taxon ...

henricksonii'' M.C.Johnst. * (

Rubiaceae Rubiaceae () is a family (biology), family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family. It consists of terrestrial trees, shrubs, lianas, or herbs that are recognizable by simple, opposite leaves with Petiole ( ...

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Chiococca ''Chiococca'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It currently holds 23 species that are native to Florida, Texas, Mexico, Central America, much of South America, the West Indies, and the islands of Galápagos and Fernando d ...

henricksonii'' M.C.Johnst. * (

Scrophulariaceae The Scrophulariaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the figwort family. The plants are annual and perennial herbs, as well as shrubs. Flowers have bilateral (zygomorphic) or rarely radial (actinomorphic) symmetry. The Scr ...

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Penstemon ''Penstemon'' , the beardtongues, is a large genus of roughly 280 species of flowering plants native to North America from northern Canada to Central America. It is the largest genus of flowering plants endemic to North America. As well as bein ...

henricksonii'' R.M.StrawMadroño 23(5): 263. 1976 (IK)

References

* 1940 births Living people People from Eau Claire, Wisconsin University of Texas at Austin faculty 21st-century American botanists California State University, Los Angeles faculty {{US-botanist-stub