N. E. Brown

For other people named Nicholas Brown, see Nicholas Brown (disambiguation).

Nicholas Edward Brown (11 July 1849 Redhill, Surrey - 25 November 1934 Kew Gardens, London) was an English plant taxonomist and authority on succulents. He was also an authority on several families of plants, including (but not limited to) Asclepiadaceae, Aizoaceae, Labiatae and Cape plants.

Background

He started work as an assistant in the Herbarium at Kew in 1873, and was Assistant Keeper from 1909-1914. His drawings of succulent plants were made in connection with his revision of the genus Mesembryanthemum, which appeared in 1931, and are accompanied by detailed annotations. He was the author of important works on plant taxonomy particularly succulent plants. The Araceae genus Nebrownia was named in his honour by Otto Kuntze.

He was awarded the Capt. Scott Memorial Medal by the South African Biological Society in recognition of his work on SA flora, and in 1932 an honorary D.Sc. was conferred on him by the University of the Witwatersrand. His publications appeared mainly in the Kew Bull. and in Flora Capensis. He married the daughter of Thomas Cooper (1815–1913), another Kew botanist.

The standard author abbreviation N.E.Br. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

References

1. ^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do. 

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