Vandika Ervandovna Avetisyan

Vandika Ervandovna Avetisyan (born October 5, 1928) is a Doctor of Biology and a noted Armenian botanist and mycologist. She has worked and explored extensively in her native Armenia under the auspices of the Institute of Botany of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences. Her alma mater is Yerevan State University, the oldest and most prestigious of Yerevan's universities. The standard author abbreviation V.E.Avet. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[1].[2]

  1. ^ International Plant Names Index.  V.E.Avet.
  2. ^ Brummitt, R.K. and Powell, C.E. Authors of plant names: a list of authors of scientific names of plants, with recommended standard forms of their names, including abbreviations. New edition Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1991. 732 pages ISBN 0-947643-44-3 pps.38-39.