Genus Bobgunnia
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For Charles R ‘Bob’ Gunn (1927– ), research botanist at the Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, and an authority on the Fabaceae. He participated in the First International Legume Conference at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in 1978. The aim of the conference was to arrive at a consensus on the tribal and generic classification of legumes. As a first step he surveyed legume seed characters, then prepared a nomenclature of legume genera for use in his databases. He described the subfamilies Caesalpinioideae (Gunn, 1991) and Mimosoideae (Gunn, 1984). He was the contributing editor of a newsletter called The Drifting Seed, and author of Legume Fruit and Seeds.