Michael Clyde Hislop

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Michael Clyde Hislop (born 1955) is an Australian botanist based in Perth at the Western Australian Herbarium. [1] [2]

Career

Hislop specialises in the curation, identification and taxonomy of plants, [3] particularly the genus Styphelia which he recircumscribed with two other researchers. [4] He has also helped to identify and name numerous species found in the Pilbara, Goldfields and South-West of Western Australia. [2]

Grevillea hislopii was named in his honour. [5]

The standard author abbreviation Hislop is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. [6]

References

  1. "Hislop, Michael Clyde". International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  2. 1 2 "Michael Hislop—Biodiversity and Conservation Science, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions". Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  3. "Plant Science and Herbarium Program". Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  4. Hislop, Michael; Crayn, Darren M.; Puente-Lelièvre, Caroline (5 February 2020). "A phylogenetic recircumscription of Styphelia (Ericaceae, Epacridoideae, Styphelieae)" . Australian Systematic Botany. 33 (2): 137–168. doi:10.1071/SB18050. ISSN   1446-5701 . Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  5. Olde, Peter M.; Marriott, Neil R. (21 August 2008). "Recognition of new taxa in Grevillea (Proteaceae: Grevilleoideae) from south-west Western Australia". Nuytsia: Journal of the Western Australian Herbarium. 18. Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions: 225. doi:10.58828/nuy00474. ISSN   0085-4417 . Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  6. International Plant Names Index.  Hislop.