General William Munro CB (1818–1880) was a senior English Army officer and plant collector, botanist and agrostologist (specialist on grasses).

In 1876 he was given the colonelcy of the 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot for life and on 25 June 1878 promoted to the rank of general.

His main research field was tropical grasses, including the bamboo species of which he published a monograph in 1868.

This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Munro when citing a botanical name.

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