Jayne V. Armstrong

Jayne V. Armstrong
Born
Jayne Vanessa Armstrong

1996
NationalityBritish
Scientific career
FieldsBotany

Jayne Vanessa Armstrong (fl. 1996) is a British botanist who challenged the two-species taxonomy of British elms proposed by fellow Cambridge alumnus Richard Hook Richens in 1984.[1] Armstrong in her Ph.D. thesis proposed a classification featuring 40 species, subspecies and microspecies. An introduction to her work was later published in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society[2] as part of a series which was not forthcoming.[3] However, her classification formed the basis of that adopted by Sell and Murrell in their Flora of Great Britain and Ireland, published in 2018.[4]

  1. ^ Richens, R. H. (1984). Elm. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521294621
  2. ^ Armstrong, J. V. & Sell, P. D. (1996). A revision of the British elms (Ulmus L., Ulmaceae): the historical background. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 120: 39-50.
  3. ^ "Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries". kiki.huh.harvard.edu.
  4. ^ Sell, P. & Murrell, G. (2018). Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae – Salicaceae. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521553353