James W. Byng

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. Dr Byng is a consultant to Plant Gateway Ltd.[1]

This article is about the British Botanist. For for the actor, see James Byng.

James W. Byng
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Aberdeen
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
Institutions
Author abbrev. (botany)Byng

He is an authority on the Myrtaceae genus Syzygium Gaertn. and is working on a global monograph for the group with regional collaborators.[2] He is also a co-author on the latest Angiosperm Phylogeny Group plant classification, APG IV,[3] and author of the comprehensive practical plant books The Flowering Plants Handbook[4] and The Gymnosperms Handbook[5]

The standard author abbreviation Byng is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]

References
  1. "Plant Gateway". 2019. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  2. "Syzygium (Myrtaceae): Monographing a taxonomic giant via 22 coordinated regional revisions". PeerJ Preprints. 5 April 2016. doi:10.7287/peerj.preprints.1930v1. ISSN 2167-9843.
  3. The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (1 May 2016). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 181 (1): 1–20. doi:10.1111/boj.12385. ISSN 1095-8339.
  4. Byng JW. 2014. The Flowering Plants Handbook: A practical guide to families and genera of the world. Plant Gateway Ltd., Hertford, UK.
  5. Byng, James W. (2015). The Gymnosperms Handbook. Hertford: Plant Gateway.
  6. IPNI.  Byng.



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