Roger David Spencer

Roger David Spencer (born 6 October 1945) is an Australia horticultural botanist. was born at Alfreton, Derbyshire. He has an honours degree in botany from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, a Masters and Doctorate degrees from the University of Melbourne (in phycology) and a technical certificate in Gardening and Turf Maintenance from Oakleigh Technical College, Melbourne. He is currently Horticultural Botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne where he works in the Plant Identification Service, contributing locally and internationally to the study of cultivated plant taxonomy.[1]

He has written popular articles on horticultural taxonomy for various journals and newspapers, and a regular column on plant names for Australian Horticulture, also several books on topics including landscape conservation, elms, silver foliage plants and between 1995 ans 2005 the five-volume Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia and an international third edition of the booklet Plant Names, and a book Sustainable Gardens with Rob Cross.[2] He has contributed to the Australian native Floras of Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia, and is currently chairman of the Australian Cultivar Registration Authority.[3]

The standard author abbreviation R.D. Spencer is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[4]

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References

  1. ^ Gardening Australia Transcript -Episode 26 (12 August 2006)
  2. ^ Science publications
  3. ^ Aitken & Looker, p. 564
  4. ^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do. 

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