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.

Vernon Heywood in 2006