Ovenden, Peter John (1929 - 1997)

Born in Australia on 8 Dec 1929 to Ernest Edward Ovenden and Elizabeth Florence Bruggy; died on 17 Jul 1997 in Australia.

Mr Ovenden commenced duties at Tenterfield with the Forestry Commission of NSW on 1 October 1973 and retired because of ill health on 17 March 1986.

In his early years with the Forestry Commission as a Marketing Foreman he was also engaged in gathering botanical information for Tenterfield Forest management and it was in 1979 he collected the type of Eucalyptus caleyi Maiden subsp. ovendenii L. Johnson & K. Hill (1991).

Special projects on which he was engaged included the Glen Innes Injection/Trap Tree work connected with dieback on the New England Tableland and, in 1984 field trappings to locate the presence of the Hastings River mouse.

Collecting localities for 'Ovenden, P.' from AVH (2022)

Data from 27 specimens