Herbert Fuller Wernham

Herbert Fuller Wernham FLS
Born	24 September 1879 Hatcham, London, England
Died	20 September 1941(1941-09-20) (aged 61) Rochford, Essex, England
Scientific career
Fields	Botany
Institutions	British Museum
Author abbrev. (botany)	Wernham

Herbert Fuller Wernham (24 September 1879 – 20 September 1941) was a British botanist, who from 1909 to 1929 worked at the British Museum, as an assistant in the botany department. From 1911 to 1921 he published extensively on tropical plants and many genera, retiring in 1921 due to ill health (alcoholism).

The standard author abbreviation Wernham is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

Names published

He published 603 names, including

• Acrocephalus klossii Wernham, J. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam iv. 142 (1921). (now a synonym of Platostoma cochinchinense (Lour.) A.J.Paton)
• Alibertia pedicellata Wernham, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1914(2): 66 (1914) (now a synonym of Sphinctanthus polycarpus (H.Karst.) Hook.f.)
• Anthocleista microphylla Wernham, Cat. Pl. Oban 67 (1913).
• Cowiea borneensis Wernham, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. xlii. 97 (1914).
• Fagraea carstensensis Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 9(1): 111 (1916).

Publications

(incomplete)

Honours

He is honoured in the ganus & species names:

• Wernhamia S.Moore
• Psychotria wernhamiana S.Moore, J. Bot. 65: 269 (1927).
• Tricalysia wernhamiana (Hutch. & Dalziel) Keay, Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 28: 291 (1958).
• Cremaspora wernhamiana Hutch. & Dalziel, Fl. W. Trop. Afr. [Hutchinson & Dalziel] ii. 85 (1931).