Person
Taylor, Joan Margaret (1929 - 2017)
- Born
- 1929
Victoria, Australia - Died
- October 2017
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia - Occupation
- Botanist
Summary
Joan Taylor joined the staff of the Australian National Botanic Gardens having obtained a Horticulture Certificate from the Canberra TAFE. Although her position was classified as Gardener, her duties included plant identification and herbarium curation. She became highly skilled in these areas. Later she was able to move into the technical stream where, with encouragement from senior botanists, particularly Mike Crisp, she worked on taxonomic projects, especially the families Fabaceae and Pittosporaceae. Her publications included a revision (with Crisp) of the genus Chorizema. Between 1979 and 1991 Taylor made extensive collecting trips, particularly to southwest Western Australia, the Kozsciusko National Park, and Queensland, with colleagues from the Gardens. Specimens collected on these trips were lodged in the Gardens's herbarium.
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Chronology
- c. 1970
- Career event - Joined the Canberra Botanic Gardens
- 1978 - 1992?
- Career position - Gardener (later Technical officer) , Australian National Botanic Gardens
- October 1979
- Career event - Collecting trip to southwest Western Australia (with Michael Crisp and Ron Jackson)
- January 1981 - February 1981
- Career event - Collecting trip to Kozsciusko National Park (with Julia Rymer, Barry Hadlow, Ron Jackson)
- September 1983
- Career event - Collecting trip to southwest Western Australia (with Peter Ollerenshaw)
- October 1984 - November 1984
- Career event - Collecting trip to northern New South Wales (with Michael Crisp)
- September 1991
- Career event - Collecting trip to central Central and far north Queensland
- 1992?
- Life event - Retired
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Published resources
Journal Articles
- Crisp, M. D. and Taylor, J. M., 'Chorizema', Australian plants, 17 (3) (1993), 100-26. Details
- Crisp, Mike, 'Joan Margaret Taylor, 1929 - 2017', Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, 173 (2017), 31-3. Details
- Taylor, J. M. and Crisp, M. C., 'A revision of Chorizema (Leguminoase: Mirbelieae)', Australasian systematic botany, 5 (1992), 249-335, https://doi.org/10.1071/SB9920249. Details
Resources
- 'Taylor, Joan Margaret (1929-20171231)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1772649. Details
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Created: 13 March 2018, Last modified: 23 June 2026