Spencer, Roger David (1945 - )

Born 6 October 1945 at Alfreton, Derbyshire, UK.

Roger Spencer (BSc (Hons.), MSc, PhD, Cert, Gard.) has worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne for over 30 years.

He is Senior Horticultural Botanist and has written many popular and scientific articles on horticultural topics including books on Elms, Grey and Silver Foliage Plants and Plant Names. Most recently, he completed the 5-volume Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia which is the most comprehensive source of information about the history and nomenclature or cultivated plants in the state of Victoria.

Source: Extracted from: Australian Plants, Vol.26, No.11, June 2012
Portrait Photo: Extracted from: Australian Plants, Vol.26, No.11, June 2012

Roger David Spencer is an Australia horticultural botanist who was born at Alfreton, Derbyshire. He has an honours degree in botany from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, a master's degree and doctorate from the University of Melbourne (in phycology) and a technical certificate in gardening and turf maintenance from Oakleigh Technical College, Melbourne. He is currently horticultural botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne where he works in the Plant Identification Service, contributing locally and internationally to the study of cultivated plant taxonomy.

He has written popular articles on horticultural taxonomy for various journals and newspapers and has a regular column on plant names for Australian Horticulture. He has also written books on topics including landscape conservation, elms and silver foliage plants.

Between 1995 and 2005 he compiled the five-volume Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. He is the co-author of the book Sustainable Gardens and an international third edition of the booklet Plant Names. He has contributed to the Australian native floras of Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia, and was for several years chairman of the Australian Cultivar Registration Authority.

Source: Extracted from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_David_Spencer

Collecting localities for 'Spencer, R.D.' from AVH (2021)

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