Prakash, Nallamilli   (1940 - )

Nallamilli Prakash was born in India in 1940;

He graduated from Nagpur University with a BSc in 1959 and an MSc in 1961.
He obtained his PhD from Delhi University in 1966; the title of his thesis was 'Aizoaceae and Cactaceae - A Study of Their Embryology and Relationships'.

Between 1967 and 1969 he was an ARGC post-doctoral fellow working with Associate Professor Gwenda Davis on reproductive biology of Australian Myrtaceae at the University of New England, (UNE), NSW, Australia.

He was a lecturer in Botany at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, between 1969 and 1974 and rejoined UNE in 1975 as a lecturer in Botany teaching embryology, anatomy and plant groups.

He is the primary collector on only 11 specimens, but is secondary collector for about 80 other collections at UNE, mostly those of his many students.

He retired in 2003 as an Associate Professor. His main interests were structure, life history and relationships of Australian "primitive" angiosperms, native Citrus and legumes.

He held visiting appointments at the Jodrell Laboratory Kew, University of British Columbia, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University and National University of Singapore among others.

Since 2004 he has been a volunteer guide at Brisbane Botanic Gardens.

Source: Extracted from:
https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?id=13229
Pers. com. Prakash, Nallamilli (2024)
Portrait Photo: supplied by Prakesh.

Collecting localities for 'Prakesh, N.' from AVH (2024)

Data from 11 specimens