Henry William Ravenel
United States botanist (1814–1887) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Henry William Ravenel (May 19, 1814 – July 17, 1887) was an American planter and botanist. He studied fungi and cryptogams in South Carolina, discovering a large number of new species. The genus Ravenelia is named after him, along with many of the species he discovered.