George Samuel Jenman

George Samuel Jenman (1845–1902) was a British gardener and botanist. He specialized in growing and studying plants. He was superintendent of Castleton Botanical Garden, Jamaica from 1873 to 1879, and Government Botanist and superintendent of the Botanical Gardens in British Guiana (now Guyana) from 1879 to 1902. Jenman was also a member of the Linnean Society.

Life

George Samuel Jenman was born in Plymouth in 1845. He trained in gardening and botany at Kew Gardens.

In 1897, botanist Wilhelm Wächter published Jenmania, which is a genus of fungi within the family Lichinaceae and named in George's honour.

Publications

A Handlist of Jamaican Ferns and their Allies. Baldwin and Company: Demerara, 1881 The Ferns and Fern Allies of the British West Indies and Guiana. U. S. Government Printing Office, 1909.