Marian Muriel Whiting
British botanist and plant collector
Intro | British botanist and plant collector | |
A.K.A. | Whiting | |
A.K.A. | Whiting | |
Places | United Kingdom Great Britain | |
was | Scientist Botanist | |
Work field | Science | |
Gender |
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Birth | 1881 | |
Death | 1978 (aged 97 years) |
Marian Muriel Whiting (1881 – 1978) was a British horticulturalist and plant collector, notable for collecting plants from Hong Kong and Guangzhou. She was born in London and spent a portion of her childhood in Hong Kong before studying at London University. Over 600 of her specimens were donated to the Kew Botanical Gardens. In 1940, she became a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, and volunteered at Kew for many years. The standard author abbreviation Whiting is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.