Ihsan Ali Al-Shehbaz (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ihsan Ali Al-Shehbaz, Ph.D. (born 1939 in Iraq) is an Iraqi American botanist who works as Adjunct Professor at University of Missouri-St. Louis and Curator and Head of the Department of Asian Botany at that same university. Al-Shehbaz's primary area of interest is Brassicaceae and The Durango Herald called him "a world expert on taxonomy of the family." A 2008 publication of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service called him "the world's authority on species in the genus Lesquerella." The author abbreviation "Al-Shehbaz" is attached to the numerous botanical taxa he has identified.