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Jerzy Rzedowski Rotter (1926-2023). Considered one of the most influential botanists in Mexico. He ventured into several botanical disciplines such as taxonomy, floristics, phytogeography, and ecology. He formed several institutional herbaria, and collected samples of Mexican flora, achieving a collection that exceeded 50,000 numbers. He worked on the Phanerogamic Flora of the Valley of Mexico and the Flora of the Bajio and Adjacent Regions; he also wrote the book The Vegetation of Mexico, a classic work of Mexican botanical literature. Throughout his career, he was also dedicated to teaching and training botanists. His work includes the publication of 7 books, 47 book chapters, 128 articles in scientific journals, and 31 fascicles of floras. He discovered about 190 new species of Mexican plants and more than 85 species of Mexican fungi, plants, and animals were named in his honor.
