page_title: Alice F. Tryon
hierarchical_section_title: Alice F. Tryon
caption_attribution_description: English: Alice F. Tryon in the field in Brazil ca 1960
context_page_description: Alice Faber Tryon was an American botanist who specialized in the systematics of ferns and other spore-dispersed plants. She had two general areas of interest in her work, first incorporating the use of spore surface patterns into the understanding of fern diversity and systematics, and second the fern family Pteridaceae.
context_section_description: Alice Faber Tryon (1920–2009) was an American botanist who specialized in the systematics of ferns and other spore-dispersed plants (pteridology). She had two general areas of interest in her work, first incorporating the use of spore surface patterns into the understanding of fern diversity and systematics, and second the fern family Pteridaceae.
caption: Alice Tryon in Brazil
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