Almut Gitter Jones (8 September 192312 October 2013) was a German-American botanist, mycologist, and plant taxonomist known for her work researching the genus Aster, as well as for her work as curator of the herbarium at the University of Illinois.
Jones was born Almut Gitter in Oldenburg to Alfred and Emma ( Eickhorst) Gitter. She married fellow botanist George Neville Jones in Urbana, Illinois in 1958. She died in Urbana, Illinois.
She described over fifty species, and the genus Almutaster of the family Asteraceae was named for her in 1982.
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