Barry John Conn (Barry Conn, born 1948), is an Australian botanist.[1] He was awarded a Ph.D. from Adelaide University in 1982 for work on Prostanthera.[2]

Barry John Conn
Born1948
NationalityAustralian
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
Plant Systematics
Lamiaceae
Urticaceae
Loganiaceae
ThesisA taxonomic revision of Prostanthera Labill. section Klanderia (F.v. Muell.) Benth. (Labiatae) (1982)
Author abbrev. (botany)B.J.Conn

The standard author abbreviation B.J.Conn is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[3]

Career

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Conn's first appointment as a botanist was with the Lae Herbarium in 1974. He then became herbarium curator and a lecturer at the Papua New Guinea Forestry College, Bulolo (1976–1979). He is a scientific advisor to the Food and Agriculture Organisation. In Australia, he has been senior botanist at the National Herbarium of Victoria (1982–1987), and botanist (and principal research scientist) at the National Herbarium of New South Wales (1987–2015). In 1994-1995, he was Australian Botanical Liaison Officer at Kew. While with the National Herbarium of New South Wales, he managed the Australia’s Virtual Herbarium Project for New South Wales, and was scientific editor of the journal Telopea from 2013 to 2015.[4]

Some published names

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See IPNI.[1]
(Some 174 species listed, not all currently accepted)

Plants named in his honour

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Publications

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(incomplete)

Books

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  • Womersley, J.S.; Henty, E.E.; Conn, B.J., eds. (1978). Handbooks of the flora of Papua New Guinea(Vol I). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
  • Henty, E.E.; Womersley, J.S.; Conn, B.J., eds. (1981). Handbooks of the flora of Papua New Guinea (Vol II). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
  • Conn, B.J., ed. (1995). Handbooks of the flora of Papua New Guinea (Vol III). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.

Articles

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References

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  1. ^ a b "International Plant Names Index: Barry John Conn". www.ipni.org. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
  2. ^ Conn, B.J. (1982). "A taxonomic revision of Prostanthera Labill. section Klanderia (F.v. Muell.) Benth. (Labiatae)". adelaide.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
  3. ^ International Plant Names Index.  B.J.Conn.
  4. ^ a b Wilson, Trevor C.; Elkan, Lesley; Henwood, Murray J.; Murray, Louisa; Renner, Matt A.M.; Wardrop, Catherine (2015). "Prostanthera conniana (Lamiaceae, Westringieae), a new species from the Southern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia". Telopea. 18: 519–526. doi:10.7751/telopea8882.