David Prain (1857–1944), Scottish botanist and phycologist.

IPNI standard form: Prain

Taxon names authored

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• 51 taxon names authored by David Prain

Publications

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• Prain, D. 1891. Natural History Notes from H. M.'s I. M. Survey Steamer “Investigator,” Commander R. F. Hoskyn, R. N., Commanding—No. 25. The Vegetation of the Coco Group. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Part 2. Natural History 60(4): 283–406. BHL Reference page. 
• Prain, D. 1895. Noviciae Indicae IX. Some additional Papaveraceae. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Part 2. Natural History 64(2): 303–327. BHL Reference page. 
• Prain, D. 1906. A Review of the genera Meconopsis and Cathcartia. Annals of Botany (Oxford) 20(4): 323–370. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a089107 BHL Reference page. 
• Prain, D. & Burkill, I.H.. 1910. Dioscorea sativa. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew. 1910(9): 339-375. JSTOR Reference page. 
• Prain, D. 1915. Some additional species of Meconopsis. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew. 1915(4): 129-177. DOI: 10.2307/4104596 BHL Reference page. 
• Prain, D. 1916–1917. Flora of Tropical Africa. Vol. 6 sec.2. Ulmaceae to Cycadaceae. 371 pp. London. BHL Reference page.