Andrew James Henderson (born September 8, 1950) is a palm-systematist and Curator of the Institute of Systematic Botany at the New York Botanical Garden.
[1] He has authored taxonomic descriptions of 140 species, subspecies and varieties of plants, especially in the palm family[2] Henderson was educated in Wycliffe College in Gloucestershire and Birkbeck College, University of London.
[1] In 1986, he received 'The George H.M. Lawrence Memorial Award', in the amount of $2,000, presented by the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University and presented at the annual banquet of the Botanical Society of America.
[3] He later received his Ph.D. from City University of New York in 1987.
[1] He joined the New York Botanic Garden in 1987.