Vernon Heywood

Vernon Hilton Heywood (24 December 1927 – 17 September 2022[1] [2]) was a British biologist.

He was Professor of Botany and Head of Department at the University of Reading until 1987 when he became founder and director of Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI).

[4][5] Planta Europa honored him with their Linnaeus award at their fifth conference, held in 2007 in Cluj Napoca.

[6] The book Taxonomy and Plant Conservation (Cambridge University Press, 2006, Etelka Leadlay and Stephen Jury, eds.)

[7][8] His publications include several major books including Principles of angiosperm taxonomy (1963),[9] Flowering Plants of the World, and its update Flowering Plant Families of the World (with Richard K. Brummitt, Alastair Culham and Ole Seberg) as well as the Global Biodiversity Assessment.