John Dransfield

John Dransfield
Nationality	British
Known for	Botany Taxonomy Palm classification
Author abbrev. (botany)	J.Dransf.
Spouse	Soejatmi Dransfield

John Dransfield (born 1945) is an honorary research fellow and former head of palm research at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom, as well as being an authority on the phylogenetic classification of palms.

Dransfield has written or contributed to several books on palms, notably both the first and second editions of Genera Palmarum. The first edition was the standard reference for palm evolution and classification and the second edition, expanding on the original, is expected to achieve that same benchmark.

In 2004, Dransfield was awarded the Linnean Medal, an annual award given by the Linnean Society of London.

The genus Dransfieldia was named for him.

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