Andrew Henderson (botanist)

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birth_date = September 8, 1950 [http://www.nybg.org/science/scientist_profile.php?id_scientist=7 Andrew J. Henderson] . International Plant Science Center, New York Botanical Garden.]
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fields = Palm systematics
workplaces = Institute of Systematic Botany, New York Botanical Garden
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Andrew James Henderson is a palm-systematist and Curator of the Institute of Systematic Botany at the New York Botanical Garden. He has authored taxonomic descriptions of 140 species, subspecies and varieties of plants, especially in the palm family [ [http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_family=&find_genus=&find_species=&find_infrafamily=&find_infragenus=&find_infraspecies=&find_authorAbbrev=A.J.Hend.&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_publicationTitle=&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isAPNIRecord=false&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=false&find_isIKRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=false&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_sortByFamily=on&find_sortByFamily=off&query_type=by_query&back_page=plantsearch International Plant Names Index] ]

Henderson was educated in Wycliffe College in Gloucestershire and Birkbeck College, University of London, and received his Ph.D. from City University of New York in 1987. He joined the New York Botanic Garden in 1987.

He has authored several books, including "The Palms of the Amazon" [cite book
last= Henderson|first= Andrew J.|authorlink=|title= The Palms of the Amazon|year= 1995|publisher= Oxford University Press|location=|isbn=0195083113|oclc=|doi=|id=] and a field guide to the palms of the Americas.cite book |last=Henderson |first=Andrew |authorlink= |coauthors=Gloria Galeano; Rodrigo Bernal |title=Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas |year=1995 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, New Jersey| isbn= 0-691-08537-4 ]

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