Timothy Andrew Hammer


Timothy Andrew Hammer is an Australian botanist and plant taxonomist at the University of Adelaide and State Herbarium of [South Australia]. He was awarded a PhD from the University of [Western Australia] in 2019, completing a thesis on the taxonomy and systematics of Ptilotus and related genera in Amaranthaceae. In addition to Ptilotus, he has published taxonomic revisions and new species for the very diverse genus Hibbertia in the family Dilleniaceae, and he has authored the Flora of Australia treatments of Dilleniaceae, including the genera Dillenia, Hibbertia and Tetracera. In 2021, Tim Hammer and Kevin Thiele submitted proposals to amend the International Code of Nomenclature for [algae, fungi, and plants] to allow the rejection of offensive scientific names.

Some taxa authored by T.Hammer