Peter Francis Stevens | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1944 (age 81–82) |
| Education | Oxford University |
| Known for | APG |
| Spouse | Elizabeth Anne Kellogg |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany |
| Institutions | |
Doctoral students | Lúcia G. Lohmann |
| P.F.Stevens | |
Peter Francis Stevens (born 1944) is a British botanist. He is a researcher at the Missouri Botanical Garden and a professor of biology of the University of Missouri–St. Louis. He is a member of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group which created the APG, APG II, APG III, and APG IV systems.
He maintains a web site, APweb, hosted by the Missouri Botanical Garden, which has been regularly updated since 2001, and is a useful source for the latest research in angiosperm phylogeny which follows the APG approach.1
The standard author abbreviation P.F.Stevens is used to indicate P. F. Stevens as the author when citing a botanical name.2 He has named dozens of species, mostly in the families Clusiaceae and Ericaceae,3 and he also described the genus Romnalda (Asparagaceae).4
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- Commended by, e.g., NCBI and Kew Archived 2009-02-14 at the Wayback Machine.
- "Stevens, Peter Francis (1944–)". Author Details. International Plant Names Index. Retrieved March 9, 2012.
- "Peter F. Stevens". Universität Hamburg. Archived from the original on July 30, 2003. Retrieved March 9, 2012.
- R. J. F. Henderson (1982). "Romnalda grallata, a new species of the Xanthorrhoeaceae from Queensland". Kew Bulletin. 37 (2): 229–235. Bibcode:1982KewBu..37..229H. doi:10.2307/4109965. JSTOR 4109965.