Nikolai Stepanovich Turczaninow (Russian: Николай Степанович Турчанинов; 1796 – 7 January 1864 [O.S.

In 1814, he graduated from Kharkov University, before working as a civil servant for the Ministry of Finance in St.

[4] During his career, Turczaninow corresponded and exchanged specimens with eminent botanists of the era, including Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, George Bentham, Joseph Dalton Hooker, and Joachim Steetz, among others.

After a debilitating fall, he allowed others to collect for him and he spent his time in classification, study and writing.

In particular, Turczaninow began work on collections sent to him from the Swan River Colony in Western Australia by botanist James Drummond.