John E. Braggins

[4] For his first year of high school, the family moved back to Wellington, where Braggins attended Rongotai College.

[4] This led Braggins to becoming an honorary research associate of Auckland War Memorial Museum, where he donated many of his type specimens, and working as a freelance botanical consultant.

[11] In 1999, Braggins received the Borg-Warner Robert O. Bass Visiting Scientist award by the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

[14] In 2024, Braggins became an Associate Emeritus of Auckland War Memorial Museum, in recognition for his contributions to plant taxonomy, education and dedication to botany.

The taxon authors of Lepidozia bragginsiana chose to recognise Braggins due to his role in organising liverwort collecting expeditions and for mentoring younger bryologists.

Braggins' 1975 PhD focused on the fern genus Pteris , in which he recognised Pteris carsei (pictured) was distinct from Pteris comans . This was formally described 45 years later in 2020
Frullania wairua , a species identified by Matt von Konrat and Braggins in 2005