This person is known as the father of Indian botany for his enormous contributions to the field. Choose the correct option:

Correct answer: (c) William Roxburgh

Explanation

William Roxburgh (1751–1815), a Scottish surgeon and botanist of the East India Company, is called the father of Indian botany. He described and illustrated a very large number of Indian plants, and his *Flora Indica* was a foundation of plant study in India. He was superintendent of the botanic garden at Calcutta (now Howrah).

• Panchanan Maheshwari is known for his work on plant embryology.
• Salim Ali is known as the "Birdman of India".
• Joseph Dalton Hooker, not "Robert", wrote the *Flora of British India*, and Robert Hooke named the cell in 1665.