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Alexei Ivanovich Vvedensky
Born23 February 1898
Died1972 (74 years)
Nationality (legal)Soviet
Other namesAleksei Vvedensky, Aleksey Ivanovich Vvedensky
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
InstitutionsNational University of Uzbekistan
Author abbrev. (botany)Vved.

Alexei Ivanovich Vvedensky (Russian: Алексей Иванович Введенский) was a Russian botanist.

In 1947, botanist Yevgeni Korovin published Vvedenskya, which is a genus of flowering plants from Uzbekistan belonging to the family Apiaceae and it was named in Alexei Ivanovich Vvedensky's honour.[1]

446 names of plant species have been published by Vvedensky.[2]

The standard author abbreviation Vved. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[3]

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Other sources[edit]

  • A.A. Fedorov, 1971, "Floristics in the USSR", BioScience, 21(11): 515
  • D.G. Frodin, 2001, Guide to Standard Floras of the World: 685.


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