Multiple choice

The bryologist credited with the classification and naming of thousands of bryophyte specimens is

  1. Adalbert Geheeb

  2. Edward Wilber Berry

  3. Johann Reinhold Forster

  4. Viktor Ferdinand Brotherus

  5. William Mitten

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Explanation

William Mitten  was the premier bryologist in the second half of the nineteenth century. A pharmaceutical chemist by trade and never a professional botanist, he classified and named thousands of bryophyte specimens which came into Kew Gardens from around the vast British empire.