Barry John Conn


Barry John Conn, born 1948, is an Australian botanist. He was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Adelaide in 1982 for work on Prostanthera.

Career

Conn's first appointment as a botanist was with the Lae Herbarium in 1974. He then became herbarium curator and a lecturer at the Papua New Guinea Forestry College, Bulolo. He is a scientific advisor to the Food and Agriculture Organisation. In Australia, he has been senior botanist at the National Herbarium of Victoria, and botanist at the National Herbarium of New South Wales. In 1994-1995, he was Australian Botanical Liaison Officer at Kew. While with the National Herbarium of New South Wales, he managed the Australia’s Virtual Herbarium Project for New South Wales, and was scientific editor of the journal Telopea from 2013 to 2015.

Some published names

  • Acacia aureocrinita B.J.Conn & Tame, Austral. Syst. Bot. 9: 851 .
  • Acacia cremiflora B.J.Conn & Tame, Austral. Syst. Bot. 9: 853 .
  • Actephila forsteri B.J.Conn, Telopea 20: 11.
  • Dasymalla chorisepala B.J.Conn & Henwood, Austral. Syst. Bot. 24: 6.
  • Drosera hookeri R.P.Gibson, B.J.Conn & Conran, J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 24: 41.
  • Mentha atrolilacina B.J.Conn & D.J.Duval, Telopea 12: 521
See IPNI.

Plants named in his honour

  • ''Prostanthera conniana''

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