Alice Faber Tryon | |
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Born | August 2, 1920 |
Died | March 29, 2009 | (aged 88)
Alma mater | University of Wisconsin–Madison Washington University in St. Louis |
Spouse | Rolla M. Tryon |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Botany |
Institutions | Gray Herbarium, Harvard University |
Author abbrev. (botany) | A.F.Tryon |
Alice Faber Tryon (1920–2009) was an American botanist who specialized in the systematics of ferns and other spore-dispersed plants (pteridology).[1] She had two general areas of interest in her work, first incorporating the use of spore surface patterns into the understanding of fern diversity and systematics, and second the fern family Pteridaceae.