Bernard Verdcourt [SEP] occupation
Bernard Verdcourt
Bernard Verdcourt (20 January 1925 – 25 October 2011) was a biologist and taxonomist, most widely known as a botanist and latterly an honorary research fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London. Prior to coming to Kew in 1964, he was associated with the East African Herbarium for 15 years. Although his best-known work probably consists of his many studies of the East African flora, he has also made extensive contributions relating to African terrestrial mollusks and to entomology. Dr. Verdcourt received the Linnean
Tropical East Africa - Convolvulaceae" - Verdcourt, B. (1963) London: Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations
- "Common Poisonous Plants of East Africa" - Verdcourt, Bernard & E. C. Trump, Collins, 1969. Hardcover, 254 pgs, map, botanical illustrations by Mrs. M. E. Church
- "Some Common Flowering Plants of Uganda" - Edna Margaret Lind & A. C. Tallantire (1971) Oxford University Press
- "Flora of Tropical East Africa - Flacourtiaceae" - Sleumer, H., 1975