Genus Dyerophytum
Pictures from Observations
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For Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1843–1928), British botanist and third director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He studied mathematics and natural sciences at Oxford, and thereafter held various professorships before taking up a professorship at the Royal Horticultural Society in London in 1872. He became assistant director at Kew in 1875, director in 1885 and retired in 1905. During his tenure he created an international research laboratory at Kew, introduced a new rock garden, and helped Sri Lanka and Malaya develop rubber plantations. He authored an English edition of Julius Sachs’s Text-Book of Botany (1875), editions of the Flora Capensis and of the Flora of Tropical Africa, and Index Kewensis (1905). Gk. phyton = plant.