Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurement
Type:
Theory
Chapter:
John Hutchinson was a renowned English botanist, taxonomist and author who lived from 1884 to 1972 London.
Hutchinson worked at Kew garden at the Herbarium with great taxonomic and drawing skills. He worked very much on Indian plants and tropical African ones.
After his retirement he worked on the phylogeny of flowering plants and published two parts of The Genera of Flowering Plants.
His profound knowledge of the floral structure of the phanerogams was probably greater than that of any other living botanist.
John Hutchinson proposed a radical revision of the angiosperm classification system devised by Hooker and by Engler and Prantl that had become widely accepted during the 20th century. At its simplest, his system suggested two main divisions of angiosperms, herbaceous and woody.
