Anna Monro (born 1974) is an Australian botanist, who is working on compiling the Australian Plant Census. Her interests include the taxonomy of the Australian members of the family Polygalaceae , in preparation for their inclusion in the Flora of Australia . [1] She is the leader for the "Communications and Outreach" program at the Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research. [2] From 2004 to 2008, she served as treasurer of the Australasian Systematic Botany Society (ASBS) and, as of2024 [update] , is its publicity officer. [3] She was awarded life membership of the ASBS in 2024. [4]
Her name, along with that of Brendan Lepschi is honoured in the name of the species of flowering plant, Goodenia brendannarum . [5]
Alexander Segger George is an Australian botanist. He is an authority on the plant genera Banksia and Dryandra. The "bizarre" Restionaceae genus Alexgeorgea was named in his honour in 1976.
Nancy Tyson Burbidge was an Australian systemic botanist, conservationist and herbarium curator.
Lyndley Alan Craven was a botanist who became the Principal Research Scientist of the Australian National Herbarium.
Melaleuca exuvia is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is easily distinguished by its unusual rough, minni ritchi bark which peels to reveal a new layer of smooth, salmon-pink bark. It is a newly described (2004) species which was formerly included in Melaleuca uncinata.
Melaleuca sapientes is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a small shrub with silky grey leaves and small heads of pinkish flowers in spring or early summer. The attractive, silvery foliage has made this melaleuca a popular garden plant under the incorrect name of Melaleuca holosericea, a similar but much rarer species.
Goodenia paradoxa, commonly known as spur velleia or spur goodenia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae, and is endemic to Australia. It is a perennial herb covered with soft hairs, and has egg-shaped to elliptic leaves with toothed edges and yellow flowers on an ascending flowering stem.
Goodenia caroliniana is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae, and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a perennial herb with egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves with toothed edges and the narrower end toward the base, and erect flowering stems up to 50 cm (20 in) high and yellow flowers.
Goodenia rosea, commonly known as pink velleia, is a species in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to inland areas of Western Australia. It is a perennial herb with lance-shaped to toothed or pinnatisect leaves, pink, lilac or white flowers on an ascending flower stem, and compressed fruit.
Goodenia connata, commonly known as cup velleia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae, and is found in all mainland states and territories of Australia. It is a glabrous annual herb with a rosette of leaves at the base, and ascending flowering stems with yellow, brownish-yellow or white flowers, often with mauve markings.
Goodenia glabrata, commonly known as pee the bed, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is native to mainland Australia. It is a mostly glabrous annual herb with ascending flowering stems, oblong to lance-shaped leaves with toothed edges, and yellow flowers.
Scaevola collaris is a shrub in the family Goodeniaceae and its native range is five mainland states/territories of Australia: the Northern Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland and Western Australia.
Paul Graham Wilson was an Australian botanist. As of 1998, Wilson was the most prolific contributor to the journal Nuytsia, contributing to the first issue in 1970 and to the 12th volume in 1998, which was dedicated to him for his contributions to plant taxonomy and to celebrate his 70th birthday. Following his retirement from the Western Australian Herbarium in 1993, he helped to maintain a comprehensive census of the flora of Western Australia.
Goodenia cycnopotamica is a species of flowering plant in the Goodeniaceae family and is endemic to Australia, found in both South Australia and Western Australia. It is an annual herb with oblong to lance-shaped leaves and pink or lilac to white flowers.
Goodenia mystrophylla is a flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is native to eastern Australia and New Guinea. It is a small, perennial herb with lance-shaped leaves, prostrate or low-lying flower stems and yellow flowers with purplish markings.
Goodenia daviesii, commonly known as hairy velleia, is a species of flowering plant in the Goodeniaceae family and is endemic to inland areas of Western Australia. It is an annual herb with lyre-shaped, pinnatifid leaves and lilac to white flowers.
Goodenia discophora, commonly known as cabbage poison, is a species of flowering plant in the Goodeniaceae family and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a herb with lyre-shaped, pinnatifid leaves and yellow flowers.
Goodenia brendannarum is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae, and is endemic to a small area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is a perennial herb with woody stems, crowded, narrowly egg-shaped leaves with toothed edges, and erect flowering stems and orange-yellow and red flowers.
Goodenia capillosa, commonly known as hispid velleia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is native to inland areas of Western Australia and South Australia. It is an annual herb with covered with soft hairs, and has narrowly egg-shaped to narrowly elliptic leaves with toothed or lyre-shaped edges, and yellow flowers.
Goodenia parvisepta is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to a small area of New South Wales. It is a glabrous perennial herb with erect flowering stems, lance-shaped leaves with toothed or lobed edges, and yellow flowers.
Goodenia perfoliata is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to a small area of New South Wales. It is a mostly glabrous, perennial herb with erect flowering stems, lance-shaped leaves with sometimes deeply-toothed edges, and yellow flowers with bracteoles joined to form a disc-like funnel.