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Australian botanist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Barry John Conn (Barry Conn, born 1948), is an Australian botanist.[1] He was awarded a Ph.D. from Adelaide University in 1982 for work on Prostanthera.[2]
Barry John Conn | |
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Born | 1948 |
Nationality | Australian |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Botany Plant Systematics Lamiaceae Urticaceae Loganiaceae |
Thesis | A taxonomic revision of Prostanthera Labill. section Klanderia (F.v. Muell.) Benth. (Labiatae) (1982) |
Author abbrev. (botany) | B.J.Conn |
The standard author abbreviation B.J.Conn is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[3]
Conn's first appointment as a botanist was with the Lae Herbarium in 1974. He then became herbarium curator and a lecturer at the Papua New Guinea Forestry College, Bulolo (1976–1979). He is a scientific advisor to the Food and Agriculture Organisation. In Australia, he has been senior botanist at the National Herbarium of Victoria (1982–1987), and botanist (and principal research scientist) at the National Herbarium of New South Wales (1987–2015). In 1994-1995, he was Australian Botanical Liaison Officer at Kew. While with the National Herbarium of New South Wales, he managed the Australia’s Virtual Herbarium Project for New South Wales, and was scientific editor of the journal Telopea from 2013 to 2015.[4]
See IPNI.[1]
(Some 174 species listed, not all currently accepted)
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