Jean Paton

Jean Annette Paton
MBE
Born (1929-01-04) 4 January 1929 (age 95)
Alma materBedford College for Women
AwardsJill Smythies Award (2000)
Scientific career
FieldsBryology
InstitutionsUniversity of Southampton
Author abbrev. (botany)Paton

Jean Annette Paton MBE (née Comins[1] or Comyn;[2] born 4 January 1929) is a British botanist, bryologist and botanical illustrator. She has written many books on the bryology of the United Kingdom and the flora of Cornwall, and described several new species.

Paton has been called the "queen of vice-county recording" for her prolific records of bryological specimens in the second half of the 20th century.[3] She was president of the British Bryological Society in 1976 and 1977.[4]

  1. ^ Stephen L. Jury (Christmas 1999). "Herbarium News No. 37" (PDF). University of Reading. pp. 9–10. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  2. ^ T. C. G. Rich; S. J. Richardson; F. Rose (1995). "Tunbridge Filmy-Fern Hymenophyllum tunbrigense (Hymenophyllaceae Pteridophyta) In South East England In 1994/1995" (PDF). The Fern Gazette. 15 (2). British Pteridological Society: 51-63. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  3. ^ Mark Hill (May 2010). "Sixty years a Queen: vice-county recording since 1947, with observations on where Jean Paton went and what she found" (PDF). Field Bryology (101): 46–47. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
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