Tanja Schuster


Tanja Magdalena Schuster is a taxonomist from Austria, and the first Pauline Ladiges Plant Systematics Fellow, holding a joint position with the School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and the National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal [Botanic Gardens Melbourne]. Schuster also worked as curator of the Norton-Brown Herbarium at the University of [Maryland, College Park].
In 2011, Schuster created the genus Duma for some species previously placed in Muehlenbeckia, but which were shown by molecular phylogenetic studies to form a distinct clade. The name is derived from the Latin for "thorn-bush."

Selected works

Schuster is listed in the International Plant [Names Index] as the author or co-author of 62 names, including: