Almut Gitter Jones

Almut Gitter Jones 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 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. In 1997, Jones co-authored An annotated catalogue of types of the University of Illinois mycological collections , documenting the herbarium's fungal type specimens.
File:2019.09.07 10.33.12 IMG 4488.jpg|thumb|Almutaster pauciflorus, Utah Lake Wetland Preserve near Goshen, Utah County, Utah. The monotypic genus Almutaster was named for Jones.