James Lauritz Reveal

James Lauritz Reveal is an American botanist and paleobotanist. He is a professor emeritus at the Norton Brown Herbarium in Maryland.

He is perhaps best known for his work on plant taxonomy in several plant systems, including the Reveal system he developed. He has published so extensively on North American flora that he is a member of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, and is a contributing author of the APG II system.

When citing a botanical name, he is abbreviated as Reveal.