G. Ledyard Stebbins

George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr (January 6 1906 — January 19 2000) was a American botanist and one of the architects of the modern evolutionary synthesis. The standard botanical author abbreviation Stebbins is applied to species he described.

External links

• http://www.vernalpools.org/jan2000/12ledyard.pdf
• http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/01/22/MN76135.DTL
• http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/bryolab/babs/Stebbinsobit.html