Lindy W. Cayzer | |
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Born | Lindy Webster 25 April 1952 |
Spouse | Robin Cayzer |
Scientific career | |
Thesis | Revision of the family Pittosporaceae in Australia (1997) |
Doctoral advisors | Michael Crisp, Judith Gay West |
Author abbrev. (botany) | L.W.Cayzer (IPNI) L.Cayzer(APNI) |
Lindy Webster Cayzer CF (born 25 April 1952) is an Australian botanist.
The standard author abbreviation L.W.Cayzer is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. [1] (The Australian Plant Name Index consistently gives her author abbreviation as L.Cayzer.) [2]
Cayzer was born on 25 April 1952, daughter of Robert and Rita Webster. [3] [4] She graduated from the Australian National University with a PhD in 1997. [5]
Cayzer was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2016 which enabled her to visit herbaria in Europe and South-East Asia to study the taxonomic data held on the Australian plant family Pittosporaceae. [6] [7] She was supported in this by her husband, Robin Cayzer. [8]
She has continued to work on Australian plants, publishing further work on Pittosporaceae, [9] [10] [11] [12] a monograph on Gastrolobium , [13] and more recently, a monograph on Daviesia , [14] and work on insect pests in timber. [15]
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