Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson
Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson FAA, known as Lawrie Johnson, was an Australian taxonomic botanist. He worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, for the whole of his professional career, as a botanist, Director and Honorary Research Associate.
Alone or in collaboration with colleagues, he distinguished and described four new families of vascular plants, 33 new genera, 286 new species, and reclassified another 395 species.
Of the families he described, Rhynchocalycaceae is accepted by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. Hopkinsiaceae and Lyginiaceae,, have not been accepted by the APG.
Lawrie Johnson died of cancer in 1997.
He received many honours and awards, including:
