Chinese botanist (1898-1975).
Yi-Li Keng (Chinese: 耿以礼 Gěng Yi-Li; 1897, Nanjing – 1975) was a Chinese botanist, specializing in the study of grasses (the family Poaceae), particularly the tribe Triticeae of the Poaceae. Yi-Li Keng graduated in 1927 with B.Sc. from Nanjing University (called at that time National Southeastern University). After graduation, he collected plants in Zhejiang Province with Hsen-Hsu Hu and Sung-Shu Chien. At George Washington University Keng graduated with A.M. in 1932 and Ph.D. in 1933. His thesis, The Grasses of China (1933), provides treatments of 154 genera and 536 species. In 1934 he becam