Almut Gitter Jones
German-American botanist (1923-2013)
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Almut Gitter Jones (8 September 1923 – 12 October 2013) was a German-American botanist, mycologist, and plant taxonomist known for her work researching the genus Aster, as well as for her work as curator of the herbarium at the University of Illinois.[1]
8 September 1923
Almut Gitter Jones | |
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| Born | Almut Gitter 8 September 1923 |
| Died | 12 October 2013 (aged 90) |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois (BSc 1958, MSc 1960, PhD 1973) |
| Spouse | George Neville Jones |
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| Thesis | Taxonomy, Phytogeography, and Biosystematy of Aster, Section Multiflori. (1973) |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | A.G.Jones |
Jones was born Almut Gitter in Oldenburg to Alfred and Emma (née Eickhorst) Gitter. She married fellow botanist George Neville Jones in Urbana, Illinois in 1958. She died in Urbana, Illinois.[1]
She described over fifty species,[2][3] and the genus Almutaster of the family Asteraceae was named for her in 1982.[4] The standard author abbreviation A.G.Jones is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5] In 1997, Jones co-authored An annotated catalogue of types of the University of Illinois mycological collections (ILL), documenting the herbarium's fungal type specimens.[6]
