2009

Plant-related events that occured in 2009.

February

 * 20: John Walter Thomson dies at the age of 96.

November

 * 13: Armen Takhtajan dies at the age of 99.

Deaths

 * Santiago Castroviejo Bolíbar (born 1946)
 * João Manuel Antonio do Amaral Franco (born 1921)
 * Chit Ko Ko (born 1925)
 * Henri Alain Liogier (born 1916)
 * Nikolay V. Stepanov
 * Armen Takhtajan (born 1910)
 * John Walter Thomson (born 1913) (died on February 20)

Plants described in 2009

 * For a list of plants described in 2009, see List of plants described in 2009


 * Acacia rostriformis
 * Acacia stictophylla
 * Berlinia korupensis
 * Commelina orchidophylla
 * Commelina sphaerorrhizoma
 * Dioscorea orangeana
 * Dypsis humilis
 * Heliamphora ciliata
 * Heliamphora huberi
 * Heliamphora uncinata
 * Isoëtes eludens
 * Nepenthes attenboroughii
 * Nepenthes bokorensis
 * Nepenthes micramphora
 * Nepenthes naga
 * Nepenthes pitopangii
 * Nepenthes thai
 * Selaginella bifida
 * Sorbus admonitor
 * Utricularia cornigera
 * Utricularia rostrata