Aplin, Theodore Ernest Holmes (Ted)   (1927 - 1991)

Born in 1927, died in Perth 3 July 1991.

(Comments below from Nik Lander who shared a room with Ted for some years when he first came to Perth):

Ted was Anglo-Burmese. He was educated in India and later Australia. He worked at first in Melbourne on wood-decaying fungi, then at the WA Herbarium as an identification botanist. During the John Green years he did much of the administrative work of the Herbarium. He had a phenomenal knowledge of the WA flora. He was especially interested in poisonous plants.

Ted collected over 6,000 specimens for the WA Herbarium: details can be retrieved via Florabase (registration needed).

Similarly, a list of Ted's publications can be found via the following WA Conservation Library search.

The monotypic genus Taplinia Lander is named for Ted.

Source: pers com, Nicholas Lander, email, 12.12.2011, with corrections from Jan Tresham by email, 17.4.2012.

Collecting localities for 'Aplin, T.E.H.' from AVH (2021)

Data from 9,109 specimens