Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson

Botanist, Award Winner

1925 – 1997

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Who was Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson?

Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson, known as Lawrie Johnson, was an Australian taxonomic botanist. He worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, for the whole of his professional career, as a botanist, Director and Honorary Research Associate.

Alone or in collaboration with colleagues, he distinguished and described four new families of vascular plants, 33 new genera, and new 286 species, and reclassified another 395 species.

Of the families he described, Rhynchocalycaceae is accepted by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group; Hopkinsiaceae and Lyginiaceae, which he and B. G. Briggs proposed in 2000 be carved out of Anarthriaceae, have not been accepted by the APG.

Lawrie Johnson died of cancer in 1997.

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Born
Jun 26, 1925
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Died
Aug 1, 1997

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on July 23, 2013

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