Anthony Bean
Australian botanist
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Anthony Russell Bean (born 1957) is an Australian botanist who works at the Queensland Herbarium and Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mount Coot-tha.[1] Since 1982, he has led the Eucalyptus Study Group of the Society for Growing Australian Plants.[2] The standard author abbreviation A.R.Bean is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[3]
- Botanical collector
- scientific collector
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| Born | 19 December 1957 |
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| Author abbrev. (botany) | A.R.Bean |
Career
From at least 1989, he was working at CSIRO, Division of Plant Industry, in Nambour, Queensland,[4] and much of that work was on Eucalypts.[4][5][6][7]
In later years he has contributed to the history of Australian botany, with work on Ludwig Leichhardt,[8] Frederick Kenny,[9] and Cyril Tenison White,[10]
Names published
IPNI lists 343 names published by Bean.[11] Examples are:
- Alphitonia pomaderroides (Fenzl) A.R.Bean.[12]
- Eucalyptus exilipes M.I.H. Brooker & A.R. Bean[13]
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