Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria |
Born in Adelaide 1953;
Secondary education: Walford College 1966-70
Tertiary education: University of Adelaide 1971-1979; PhD (1979)
Employed as a Scientific Officer with SA Dept of Environment and Planning from 1981.
Interested in conservation of flora and fauna, land rehabilitation, flora treatments and botanical illustration.
Special interest in Cupressaceae and Aizoaceae, vouchers lodged in AD.
She co-authored (with Ann Prescott) the Aizoaceae for volume 4 of the Flora of Australia in 1984, including publication of two new species of Trianthema in that work.
Contributed flora treatments on Cupressaceae to:
Flowering Plants in Australia (1983)
Black's Flora of SA 3-4th ed (1978-86)
Flora of Central Australia
Source: ABRS author survey, mid-1980s
Portrait Photo: supplied for above.