Person

Gray, Alan Maurice (1943 - )

Born
9 September 1943
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Occupation
Botanist and Taxonomist

Summary

Alan Gray has pursued his interest in plant taxonomy, ecology and the propagation and cultivation of Australian native plants. Preeminent in his taxonomic and field knowledge of Tasmanian eucalypts as well as the eucalypts of the eastern and southern mainland, he has published a number of papers since the early 1970s. He has been a contributor for Flora of Tasmania Online at the Tasmanian Herbarium.

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Chronology

1965 - 1967
Career position - Assistant, Department of Botany, University of Tasmania
1970 - 1977
Career position - Staff member, CSIRO Division of Forest Research
1978 -
Career position - Plant consultant; Botany tutor, Department of Environmental Design, Tasmanian College of Advanced Education
1979
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus brookeriana A.M.Gray
2008
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus nebulosa A.M.Gray

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Published resources

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Book Sections

  • Gray, Alan Maurice, 'Barber's gum, Eucalyptus barberi L. Johnson et D Blaxell.' in Forest tree series ; no. 152 (Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1974), p. 4. Details

Journal Articles

  • Brooker, M. I. H.; and Lassak, E. V., 'The volatile leaf oils of Eucalyptus ovata Labill. and E. brookerana AM Gray (Myrtaceae).', Australian Journal of Botany, 29 (5) (1981), 605 - 615. Details
  • Gray, A.M., 'A note on the relationship of Eucalyptus risdonii Hook. f. var. elata Benth. to Eucalyptus delegatensis RT Baker', Muelleria, 3 (3) (1976), 197-198. Details
  • Ladiges, P.Y.; Gray, A.M.; and Brooker, M.I.H., 'Pattern of geographic variation, based on seedling morphology, in Eucalyptus ovata Labill. and E. brookerana A.M. Gray [Provenances from Victoria, Tasmania and King Island] and comparisons with some other Eucalyptus species.', Australian Journal of Botany, 29 (5) (1981), 593 - 603. Details

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See also

  • Duretto, M.F. (Ed.), Flora of Tasmania Online, Tasmanian Herbarium, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, 2009, http://demo1.tmag.tas.gov.au/index.html. Details
  • Hall, Norman, A Supplement to Botanists of the Eucalypts (CSIRO, 1978) (Canberra: CSIRO Division of Forest Research, 1979), 19 pp. Details

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