Georgi Ivanovich Rodionenko (1913–2014), Russian botanist.
Russian Botanist. He worked academically in the Komarov Botanical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Plant anatomist, hybridizer, taxonomist, and friend of all Irisarians. George spent a great deal of effort trying to save endangered species. photo attached showing his repatriation of Iris winogradowii to one of the only two mountain tops on which it grew. See also: Hybridizer Georgi Ivanovich Rodionenko for his iris registrations.
IPNI standard form: Rodion.
