Geoffrey_Wood_(botanist)
Geoffrey Wood (botanist)
English botanist
Geoffrey Howorth Spencer Wood (1927, Vowchurch, Herefordshire, England – 1957, Kuala Belait, Borneo (now Brunei)) was an English botanist. He obtained an MA in botany and forestry from Oxford University in 1952.[1] In 1954 he became Curator at the Sandakan Herbarium in present-day Sabah.[2] His main area of interest was trees in the family Dipterocarpaceae.[1] He died in 1957 from injuries suffered in a fuel explosion on a botanical expedition in the Andulau Hills of Brunei.[3]
Wood named several plant species, including Hopea wyattsmithii and Shorea symingtonii.[4] The species Shorea woodii and Madhuca woodii are named for him.[5]