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Arthur worked at the Western Australian Herbarium as a plant
ecologist between 1971 and 1974, during which
time he studied the vegetation of some of the
most botanically diverse
parts of the state, including
the Fitzgerald River,
Stirling Range, Kalbarri
and Cape Le Grand
National Parks.
Among
the Western Australian
species discovered by
Arthur are two now named
after him, Utricularia
westonii P.Taylor and
the threatened Acacia
awestoniana R.S.Cowan
& Maslin, from Cape Le
Grand and the Stirling
Range respectively.
He was an important
collector of Western
Australian plants with
more than 2500 of his
specimens lodged at the Western Australian
Herbarium, many of these from remote and
difficult-to-access localities.
During botanical studies
of the mountains of Costa
Rica at an earlier stage of
his career, Arthur made
numerous discoveries,
maybe the most significant
of which was of a new
group of daisies that were
subsequently described as
the genus Westoniella in
his honour.
Source: Extracted from obituary by Bruce Maslin: Arthur Weston (1932-2019)
Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 179 (June 2019)
Portrait Photo: by B.Maslin, extracted from above .
Data from 3,522 specimens