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Thomas Archibald Sprague

British botanist (1877–1958) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Thomas Archibald Sprague (7 October 1877, Edinburgh^[1] – 22 October 1958, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England) was a Scottish botanist.^[2] In 1938 he married botanist Mary Letitia Green, and together they authored several supplements to the Index Kewensis.^[3]^[4]

In 1954, botanist Balle (Simone Balle) published Spragueanella, which is a genus of flowering plants from Tropical Africa belonging to the family Loranthaceae.^[5]

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Abbreviation

The standard author abbreviation Sprague is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[6]

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