Born: 1929, Australia
Died: 2017
Country most active: Australia
Also known as: NA
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Joan Taylor joined the staff of the Australian National Botanic Gardens having obtained a Horticulture Certificate from the Canberra TAFE. Although her position was classified as Gardener, her duties included plant identification and herbarium curation. She became highly skilled in these areas. Later she was able to move into the technical stream where, with encouragement from senior botanists, she worked on taxonomic projects, especially the families Fabaceae and Pittosporaceae, made some extended field collecting trips between 1979 and 1991, and published the results of her taxonomic work.