Gussie Knight

Australian botanical artist, winning a bronze medal at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886. Her plant collections were sent to Victorian Government Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in Melbourne. The National Herbarium of Victoria holds over 200 of her specimens.

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Clara Wehl

Clara Wehl collected plants from across southeast South Australia up until the 1890s and sent them to her brother in Melbourne. Over 150 specimens survive in the National Herbarium of Victoria.

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Constance Margaret Eardley

Constance Eardley, a systematic botanist, was a Lecturer in Botany, at the University of Adelaide 1933-1971 and Curator of the two university herbaria. She also conducted her own research, in the areas of sphagnum bogs, swamp vegetation, arid zone plants and cytology.

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Christine Beveridge

Christine Beveridge is internationally recognised for her research into the hormonal control of plant development and shoot architecture, of particular importance to the agricultural and horticultural industries. Her research led to the discovery of the hormone strigolactone that is involved in nutrient uptake, shoot branching and root development.

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Dr Anna M G Koltunow

Anna Koltunow is a plant physiologist whose contributions to understanding plant reproduction by uncovering mechanisms regulating fruit and seed formation via sexual and asexual (apomictic) pathways are being used in developing countries to improve crop production.

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Cecily Fearnley

Cecily Lydia Fearnley was awarded the Queensland Natural History Award in 2001 and has published several popular books on the flora and fauna of Noosa and surrounding areas.

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