Judith Roderick Wheeler (born 1944 in Cardiff, Wales) is an Australian herbarium botanist. [1] [2] After receiving an honours degree in botanical science, she was employed at the State Herbarium of South Australia, before moving to Western Australia's Murdoch University and later the West Australian Herbarium. Wheeler was the leading contributor to the two volume Flora of the South West (UWAP). [3]
Judy Wheeler's name is abbreviated to J.R.Wheeler when cited as the author of a plant descriptions. [1]
Banksia is a genus of around 170 species of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae. These Australian wildflowers and popular garden plants are easily recognised by their characteristic flower spikes, and woody fruiting "cones" and heads. Banksias range in size from prostrate woody shrubs to trees up to 30 metres (100 ft) tall. They are found in a wide variety of landscapes: sclerophyll forest, (occasionally) rainforest, shrubland, and some more arid landscapes, though not in Australia's deserts.
Banksia repens, the creeping banksia, is a species of shrub in the plant genus Banksia. It occurs on the south coast of Western Australia from D'Entrecasteaux National Park in the west to Mount Ragged in the east.
Charles Austin Gardner was an English-born Western Australian botanist.
The Western Australian Herbarium is the State Herbarium in Perth, Western Australia.
Nikolai Stepanovich Turczaninow was a Russian botanist and plant collector who first identified several genera, and many species, of plants.
Allen Lowrie was a Western Australian botanist. He was recognised for his expertise on the genera Drosera and Stylidium.
Bruce Roger Maslin is an Australian botanist, known for his work on Acacia taxonomy.
The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is an online database of all published names of Australian vascular plants. It covers all names, whether current names, synonyms or invalid names. It includes bibliographic and typification details, information from the Australian Plant Census including distribution by state, links to other resources such as specimen collection maps and plant photographs, and the facility for notes and comments on other aspects.
Neville Graeme Marchant is a retired Western Australian botanist. He was formerly the Director of the Western Australian Herbarium.
Inez Clare Verdoorn was a South African botanist and taxonomist, noted for her major revisions of plant families and genera. She is also a niece of Eugene Nielen Marais, lawyer, naturalist, poet and writer.
Diplopogon is a genus of Australian plants in the grass family. It was first described in 1810 by Robert Brown. As of 2017 it contains only a singles species, Diplopogon setaceus, found in southwestern Australia. It is similar to the genus Amphipogon, the only difference being the awns of the lemma.
George Neville Jones, usually known as G. Neville Jones, (1903–1970) was an English-born botanist who spent most of his life and career in the United States. He was a professor of botany at the University of Illinois (Urbana) at the time of his death.
Paragonis grandiflora is a plant species, endemic to the southwest of Western Australia.
Carex appressa, the tall sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae. It is native to New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and generally in the South West Pacific.
Agonis baxteri is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect, sometimes bushy shrub with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and usually white flowers with 23 to 32 stamens.
Eleocharis acuta, commonly known as common spikerush or small spikerush, is a sedge of the family Cyperaceae that is native to Australia.
Laxmannia minor, also known as paperlily, is flowering herbaceous plant that occurs in Southwest Australia. It is a slender, perennial stoloniferous plant, propped on its roots to avoid desiccation when the soil surface temperature is high. The height is between 90–250 mm (3.5–9.8 in). White flowers are presented on a scape from September to December. The flowerhead is a small cluster of 18–28 flowers. The petal-like flower parts are 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) long.
Scaevola spinescens is a shrub in the family Goodeniaceae, found in all mainland Australian states and territories, in the drier parts.
Neville Grant Walsh has worked at the National Herbarium of Victoria from 1977.
Trachymene coerulea is a herb in the family Araliaceae. It is native to Western Australia.