Alexei Ivanovich Vvedensky

Alexei Ivanovich Vvedensky
Born	23 February 1898 Penza, Russia
Died	1972 (74 years)
Nationality	Soviet
Other names	Aleksei Vvedensky, Aleksey Ivanovich Vvedensky
Scientific career
Fields	Botany
Institutions	National University of Uzbekistan
Author abbrev. (botany)	Vved.

Alexei Ivanovich Vvedensky (Russian: Алексей Иванович Введенский) was a Russian botanist.

In 1947, botanist Yevgeni Korovin published Vvedenskya, which is a genus of flowering plants from Uzbekistan belonging to the family Apiaceae and it was named in Alexei Ivanovich Vvedensky's honour.[1]

446 names of plant species have been published by Vvedensky.[2]

The standard author abbreviation Vved. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[3]

References

1. "Vvedenskya Korovin | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
2. "Vvedensky, Aleksei Ivanovich (1898–1972)". International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
3. International Plant Names Index.  Vved.

Other sources

• A.A. Fedorov, 1971, "Floristics in the USSR", BioScience, 21(11): 515
• D.G. Frodin, 2001, Guide to Standard Floras of the World: 685.