Victor Zotov

Victor Dmitrievich Zotov (16 September 1908 – 26 May 1977) was a New Zealand botanist.

Zotov was born in Vladivostok, Russian Empire and in 1924, together with his parents, immigrated to New Zealand, after the Russian Revolution. He attended Feilding Agricultural High School from 1925 to 1927, where he was taught by H.H.Allan, with whom he went to work in 1928 (having written his first scientific paper) Selected publications (1928) Observations and experiments on the suckling clover content of the pastures on the school farm. Feilding Agricultural College Bulletin 7: 9–11

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Some published names

Chionochloa flavescens Zotov, New Zealand J. Bot. i. 97 (1963). Chionochloa antarctica (Hook.f.) Zotov, New Zealand J. Bot. i. 99 (1963). Erythranthera Zotov, New Zealand J. Bot. i. 124 (1963) (accepted name Rytidosperma Steud.) Notodanthonia Zotov, New Zealand J. Bot. i. 104 (1963) (accepted name Rytidosperma Steud.) Lachnagrostis lyallii'' (Hook.f.) Zotov, in Rec. Domin. Mus., N. Zeal. v. 142 (1965).