Alexander Segger George

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Alexander George

Alexander Segger George (born April 4, 1939 in East Fremantle , Western Australia ) is an Australian botanist . Its botanical author abbreviation is " ASGeorge ".

Working life

George took up the post of laboratory assistant at the Western Australian Herbarium in 1959, at the age of 20 . He worked under Charles Austin Gardener for a year until he retired. He attributes part of his interest in Banksien to this first boss . In 1963 he received his bachelor's degree from the University of Western Australia and the following year he added a major in botany. He continued to work at the Western Australian Herbarium, but was appointed "Australian Botanical Liaison Officer" at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew near London in 1968 . George is also interested in history, particularly the biographies of Western Australian naturalists . He also published a number of historical articles, including a history of the Royal Society of Western Australia and a throwback to the naturalist Rica Erickson . In 1999 he published a book on William Dampier's collection of naturalists in Western Australia, entitled William Dampier in New Holland: Australia's First Natural Historian .

George initially specialized in orchids , but soon he focused on the genera Banksia and Dryandra from the Proteaceae family . He wrote the text for Celia Rosser's three-volume work "The Banksias", which appeared between 1981 and 2001 and in which Rosser's drawings of each individual Banksia type are included. In 1981 the magazine “Nuytsia” published George's seminal monograph “The genus Banksia L. f. (Proteceae) ”, the first taxonomic treatise on Banksien since George Bentham's “ Flora Australiensis ”from the 1870s. Three years later he published the popular "The Banksia Book" and again a year later "An Introduction to the Proteceae of Western Australia". In 1999 his taxonomy of the Banksien and Dryandren was published as part of the "Flora Australiensis" monograph series.

From 1981 to 1993 George lived in Canberra and worked as editor of the monograph series "Flora Australiensis". His comprehensive revision of the genus Verticordia with new taxa was published in "Nuytsia" in 1991. Today George lives in Perth again and works as a botanical and publishing consultant. He is also an Honory Research Associate with the Western Australian Herbarium and Associate Professor at the School of Biological Sciences at Murdoch University .

Honors

In 1976, the peculiar genus Alexgeorgea from the Restionaceae family was named after Alexander Segger George.

On June 11, 2012, Dr. George made a member of the Order of Australia because of his

“Service to conservation and the environment as a botanist, historian and author, particularly in the area of ​​Australian flora, and through roles with national and international professional organizations.” (German: “Service for the preservation of the environment as botanists, historians and Author, especially in the field of Australian flora and through his involvement with national and international professional organizations ”).

Publications (selection)

  • Orchids of Western Australia (1969)
  • A New Eucalypt from Western Australia (1970)
  • A List of the Orchidaceae of Western Australia (1971)
  • Flowers and Plants of Western Australia (1973)
  • The Genus Banksia (1981)
  • The Banksias (1981–2002, with Celia Rosser)
  • The Banksia Book (1984)
  • An Introduction to the Proteaceae of Western Australia (1985)
  • "New taxa, combinations and typifications in Verticordia (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae)." Nuytsia (1991)
  • Notes on Banksia Lf (Proteaceae) (1996)
  • Wildflowers of Southern Western Australia (1996, with Margaret G. Corrick and Bruce A. Fuhrer)
  • Banksia in Flora of Australia: Volume 17B: Proteaceae 3: Hakea to Dryandra (1999)
  • Dryandra in Flora of Australia: Volume 17B: Proteaceae 3: Hakea to Dryandra (1999)
  • William Dampier in New Holland: Australia's First Natural Historian
  • The Long Dry: Bush Colors of Summer and Autumn in South-Western Australia

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AS George . Author Query, International Plant Name Index (IPNI) . Retrieved May 8, 2013
  2. ↑ Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia - The Queen's Birthday 2012 Honors Lists, p. 93. (PDF) In: gov.au. 2012, archived from the original on June 19, 2012 ; accessed on December 13, 2017 (English).

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Web links

Author entry and list of the described plant names for Alexander Segger George at the IPNI

personal data
SURNAME George, Alexander Segger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian botanist
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH East Fremantle , Western Australia, Australia