List of orchidologists

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This list is far from complete.

This is a list of orchidologists, botanists specializing in the study of orchids. The list is sorted in the surname alphabetical order.

A

  • Oakes Ames (botanist) (1874–1950), American biologist specializing in orchids
  • Joseph Arditti (born 1932), American plant physiologist specializing in orchids. Doctorate from the University of Southern California, 1965. Professor of Biology University of California, Irvine, 1966-2001. Professor Emeritus, 2001-

B

C

D

E

  • Rica Erickson (1908–2009), Australian naturalist, botanical artist, historian, author and teacher
  • Ekrem Sezik, Turkish academician, pharmacist and author
  • Choy sin Hew, Singapore plant physiologist specializing in orchids

F

G

  • Leslie Andrew Garay (1924–2016), American botanist
  • Samuel Goodenough (1743–1827), amateur botanist and collector
  • Barbara Gravendeel (born 1968), Dutch evolutionary biologist, specialising in orchid phylogenetics, systematics and developmental studies

H

  • Karl Theodor Hartweg (1812–1871), German botanist
  • Alex Drum Hawkes (1927–1977), American botanist and cookbook author from Coconut Grove, Florida and Kingston, Jamaica; specialized in orchids, bromeliads, palm trees, ferns, vegetables and fruits
  • Abel Aken Hunter (1877–1936), American botanist in Panama

K

  • Adam P. Karremans (born 1986), Dutch-Costa Rican botanist specialised in phylogenetics and systematics of Neotropical Orchidaceae
  • Carolus Adrianus Johannes Kreutz (born 1954), Dutch botanist and taxonomist, specialising in European orchids
  • Pankaj Kumar (born 1975), Indian botanist, conservationist, ecologist and taxonomist, specialising in Asian orchids and now exploring orchids of the New World

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M

P

  • Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer (1846–1906), German botanist specialist of the taxonomy of the Orchidaceae
  • Charles Wesley Powell (1854–1927), American hobbyist and self-taught horticulturist specializing in the orchids of Panama
  • George Harry Pring, British born orchid and water lily specialist known for his work at the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Franco Pupulin (born 1960), Italian botanist specialising in orchid taxonomy and systematics

Q

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T

  • Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars (1758–1831), French botanist known for his work collecting and describing orchids from the three islands of Madagascar, Mauritius and Réunion

V

  • Louis van Houtte (1810–1876), Belgian horticulturist
  • Ed de Vogel (born 1942), Dutch orchidologist, specialist of the orchid flora of Southeast Asia

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