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Margot Williams
Nationality American
Scientific career
Fields Botany
Institutions US National Arboretum
Author abbrev. (botany) M.Williams

Margot Williams is an American botanist who described Hippeastrum iguazuanum in 1984.

Career

Williams has a master's degree in horticulture and botany, and worked as a horticulturalist and research botanist at the U.S. National Arboretum, where among other activities she worked on Iris breeding.

Sources

  • Harvard Botanist Index: Margot Williams
  • The Americanization of Japanese iris: at the National Arboretum, breeders strive for longer-lasting blooms in a rainbow of colors. Horticulture, v61, 1983 Feb, p22(4) (ISSN 0018-5329)
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