John Richard Maconochie
Australian botanist (1941–1984)
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John Richard Maconochie (13 June 1941 — 24 January 1984) was a botanist from Australia. He collected Acacia.
Maconochie was born in Adelaide. He was in charge of the herbarium in Alice Springs from 1967 until 1984.[1]
He helped establish the National Herbarium of Oman.[1] Plant specimens he collected are also at the Northern Territory Herbarium.[2]
Cycas maconochiei is named for him and Maconochie Road in the Desert Springs suburb of Alice Springs was gazetted 17 September 1987 and dedicated to "the town's longest serving botanist".[1]
He died in a traffic accident in Somalia.[1]
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