Farjon, Aljos

Aljos Farjon headed the temperate section of the herbarium at the Royal Botanic gardens, Kew 1996-2006. He has published 10 books and more than 120 papers mainly, but not exclusively, on conifers. He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, Chair of the Conifer Specialist Group of IUCN (the World Conservation Union) and a member of both the International Association for Plant Taxonomy and the Royal Horticultural Society's Conifer Registration Advisory Committee.