Reid Venable Moran

Reid Venable Moran (1916–2010) was an American botanist and museum curator who worked at the San Diego Natural History Museum from 1957 to 1982.^[1]

Moran was the world authority on the Crassulaceae, a family of succulent plants, and in particular the genus Dudleya, the subject of his Ph.D. dissertation. He named at least 18 plants new to science — some in that family and some not — and published many papers elucidating relationships within the Crassulaceae. As a mark of the respect he earned among his peers, more than a dozen plants have been named for him.

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