James W. Byng

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Dr James W. Byng is a British botanist and is currently Director of Plant Gateway, a Visiting Research Fellow at Naturalis Biodiversity Center and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen. He was trained at the University of Aberdeen, Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

He is an authority on the Myrtaceae genus Syzygium Gaertn. and is working on a global monograph for the group with regional collaborators.[1] He is also a co-author on the latest Angiosperm Phylogeny Group plant classification, APG IV,[2] and author of the comprehensive practical plant books The Flowering Plants Handbook[3] and The Gymnosperms Handbook[4]

The standard author abbreviation Byng is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]

References

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  3. Byng JW. 2014. The Flowering Plants Handbook: A practical guide to families and genera of the world. Plant Gateway Ltd., Hertford, UK.
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