{{Short description|Chinese botanist (1908–1987)}} {{family name hatnote|Zheng (Cheng)|lang=Chinese}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Wan Chun Cheng | native_name = 郑万钧 | native_name_lang = zh | birth_date = {{birth date|1908|6|24}} | birth_place = Xuan'en County, Hubei, China | death_date = {{death date and age|1987|7|25|1908|6|24}} | death_place = Beijing, China | fields = Botany, Taxonomy | workplaces = National Central University (Nanjing)<br>Chinese Academy of Forestry | known_for = Identification of the Dawn Redwood (''Metasequoia glyptostroboides'') | author_abbrev_bot = W.C.Cheng | relatives = | footnotes = }} '''Wan Chun Cheng''' or '''Zheng Wanjun''' ({{lang-zh|s=郑万钧|p=Zhèng Wànjūn|t=鄭萬鈞|w=Wan Chung Cheng}}, 24 June 1908 – 25 July 1987)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cvh.org.cn/db/data_author/data_index.php?id=1 |title=中国数字植物标本馆 － 植物名称作者数据库 |access-date=2015-02-10 |archive-date=2015-02-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150210052113/http://www.cvh.org.cn/db/data_author/data_index.php?id=1 |url-status=dead }}</ref> was a Chinese botanist. Initially one of the Chinese plant collectors who followed in the wake of the Europeans after 1920, he became one of the world's leading authorities on the taxonomy of gymnosperms. Working at the National Central University in Nanjing, he was instrumental, along with H.H.Hu, in the identification in 1944 of the dawn redwood, ''Metasequoia glyptostroboides'', previously known only from fossils and was long thought extinct.<ref name=Garden>{{cite journal |author=Roy Lancaster| year= 2013|title=Helping a fossil live on|journal=The Garden|volume=138|issue=1|pages=45 |publisher=Royal Horticultural Society| author-link= Roy Lancaster}}</ref> The plant ''Juniperus chengii'' is named in his honour.

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