Boorman, John Luke (c. 1864 - 1938)

Summary

Botanical collector John Boorman worked at the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens from around 1887 until his retirement around 1930. He was well-regarded by then director J.H. Maiden and the botanic garden holds many specimens collected by him. Deane and Maiden named the hybrid Eucalyptus x boormanii in his honour, which Boorman had collected. Several taxa other than eucalypts were named in his honour, such as Acacia boormanii (Maiden) and Pterostylis boormanii (Rupp).

Details

Chronology

c. 1887 - c. 1930

Career position - Botanical collector, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney

1901

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus x boormanii Deane & Maiden was named in his honour

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62088197. Details
• 'Boorman, John Luke (1864-19381118)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1499581. Details

See also

• Hall, Norman, Botanists of the Eucalypts: short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. Details