Allan Black

Allan Adamson Black (1832

botanist who served as the first curator at Kew. The plant genus Allanblackia was named after him posthumously by Professor Daniel Oliver.^[2] The species Austrosteenisia blackii is also named after him.^[3]

Black was the fourth son of Reverend John Black of Perthshire, Scotland. In 1853, Black became the first curator of the Herbarium Hookerianum at the

Cocos Islands on 4 December 1865.^[5] He was buried on Table Island, Cocos group.^[6]

The standard author abbreviation Black is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[7]

References

^ "Black, Allan A, (1832-1865), Botanist". The National Archives, UK.
doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1867.tb00431.x
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JSTOR 41729921
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^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

^ "Death". Greenock Telegraph and Clyde Shipping Gazette. 23 January 1866. p. 3 – via British Newspaper Archive.

^ "William Dotting Hemsley. His life and work". Kew Guild Journal. 4 (32): 331–337.

^ International Plant Names Index. Black.

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[1] "Black, Allan A, (1832-1865), Botanist". The National Archives, UK.

[2] :10.1111/j.1095-8339.1867.tb00431.x
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[3] JSTOR 41729921
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[4] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[5] "Death". Greenock Telegraph and Clyde Shipping Gazette. 23 January 1866. p. 3 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[6] "William Dotting Hemsley. His life and work". Kew Guild Journal. 4 (32): 331–337.

[7] International Plant Names Index. Black.

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