Vvedensky, Aleksei Ivanovich (1898-1972)

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Aleksei Ivanovich
Last name
Vvedensky
Initials
A.I.
Life Dates
1898 - 1972
Specification
Plant collector
Organisation(s)
A, C, G, K, LE, MO, MW, P
Countries
North Asia: Russian FederationWestern Asia: Turkey, UzbekistanChinese region: China
Associate(s)
Botschantzev, Victor Petrovič (1910-1990) (co-author)
Kamelin, R.V. (1938-) (co-author)
Korovin, Evgenii (Yevgeni, Eugeny) Petrovich (1891-1963) (co-author)
Ovczinnikov, Pavel Nikolaevich (1903-1979) (co-author)
Schischkin, Boris Konstantinovich (1886-1963) (co-author)
Biography
Russian botanist Aleksei Vvedensky was an expert on the genera Allium and Tulipa. He carried out extensive explorations of Uzbekistan and compiled the 1941-1962 Flora Uzbekistana in conjunction with R.R. Schreder and E.P. Korovin.

Vvedensky also contributed to the Tajikistan flora, Flora Tadzhikskoj SSR (edited by P.N. Ovczinnikov, 1963) and the Kyrgyzstan flora, Flora Kirgiskoj SSR (1950-1962) with B.K. Shishkin. He published a manual of Central Asian plants (in Russian) with R.V. Kamelin. An English edition of his treatment of the genus Allium from the Flora of the USSR (1935) was published in 1944 (translated by H.K.A. Shaw).

Vvedensky was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Among the species named in his honour is Vvedensky's Tulip, Tulipa vvedenskyi Botschantz.

Sources:
A.A. Fedorov, 1971, "Floristics in the USSR", BioScience, 21(11): 515
D.G. Frodin, 2001, Guide to Standard Floras of the World: 685.
Vvedensky, Aleksei Ivanovich (1898-1972)
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