page_title: George Bentham
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: George Bentham / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Benthamiella patagonica in cultivation as an alpine show plant. Photographed at the Midland Show of the Alpine Garden Society.
context_page_description: George Bentham CMG FRS FLS was an English botanist, described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century". Born into a distinguished family, he initially studied law, but had a fascination with botany from an early age, which he soon pursued, becoming president of the Linnaean Society in 1861, and a fellow of the Royal Society in 1862. He was the author of a number of important botanical works, particularly flora. He is best known for his taxonomic classification of plants in collaboration with Joseph Dalton Hooker, his Genera Plantarum. He died in London in 1884.
context_section_description: The following plants have been named in his honour:
caption: Benthamiella patagonica, one of several plants named in Bentham's honour
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