Alex George
Alexander Segger George AM (lahir 4 April 1939) adalah botanis Australia Barat. Dia adalah otoritas pada genera tumbuhan Banksia dan Dryandra. Genus Restionaceae "aneh" Alexgeorgea dinamai untuk menghormatinya pada tahun 1976.
Kehormatan
suntingPada tanggal 11 Juni 2012, Dr. George dinamai sebagai Anggota dari Order of Australia untuk "pelayanan untuk konservasi dan lingkungan sebagai seorang botanis, sejarawan dan penulis, terutama dalam area flora Australia, dan melalui peran serta dalam organisasi profesional nasional dan internasional."[1]
Publikasi
sunting- Orchids of Western Australia (1969)
- A New Eucalypt from Western Australia (1970)
- A List of the Orchidaceae of Western Australia (1971)
- Flowers and Plants of Western Australia (1973)
- The Genus Banksia (1981)
- The Banksias (1981–2002, with Celia Rosser)
- The Banksia Book (1984)
- An Introduction to the Proteaceae of Western Australia (1985)
- "New taxa, combinations and typifications in Verticordia (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae)." Nuytsia (1991)
- Notes on Banksia L.f. (Proteaceae) (1996)
- Wildflowers of Southern Western Australia (1996, with Margaret G. Corrick and Bruce A. Fuhrer)
- Banksia in Flora of Australia: Volume 17B: Proteaceae 3: Hakea to Dryandra (1999)
- Dryandra in Flora of Australia: Volume 17B: Proteaceae 3: Hakea to Dryandra (1999)
- William Dampier in New Holland: Australia's First Natural Historian
- The Long Dry: Bush Colours of Summer and Autumn in South-Western Australia
Referensi
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sunting- ^ "Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia - The Queen's Birthday 2012 Honours Lists" (PDF). Official Secretary to the Governor-General of Australia. 30 June 2012. hlm. 93. Diarsipkan dari versi asli (PDF) tanggal 2012-06-19. Diakses tanggal 2016-08-27.
- ^ "Author Query for 'A.S.George'". International Plant Names Index.
Referensi umum
sunting- Hall, Norman (1978). Botanists of the Eucalypts. CSIRO, Melbourne. ISBN 0-643-00271-5.
- Rosser, Celia E. and Alex S. George (1981–2001). "Alex George". The Banksias (3 volumes). London: Academic Press in association with Monash University.
- George, Alex (1986). "Banksias (Talk given at 1985 AGM):Part I". Native Plants for NSW. Australian Plants Society, NSW Region. 21 (4): 18–22.
- George, Alex (1986). "Banksias (Talk given at 1985 AGM):Part II". Native Plants for NSW. Australian Plants Society, NSW Region. 21 (5): 11–14.
- A.E.Orchard (2012). "George, Alexander S. (1939 - )". Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria. Australian National Herbarium.
[extract] from: A History of Systematic Botany in Australia, in Flora of Australia Vol.1, 2nd ed., (1999)