Keighery, Gregory John   (1950 - )

Born in 1950;

Attended Bunbury Senior High School, WA, 1963 - 1967.

Graduated from The University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Science, Botany/Zoology double major, 1968 - 1973.

Worked at Kings Park Botanic Garden on pollination and breeding systems of native plants, March 1974 - Feb 1984.

Greg was one of the first staff members at Kings Park to undertake detailed taxonomic studies on the Western Australian flora. Recognising that many of the species and even some genera being collected were unnamed, Keighery wrote a series of papers on the systematics of the Australian flora during his time at Kings Park and undertook preparatory work for many treatments of lilies and allied plants that would be published in volume 45 of the Flora of Australia in 1987.

With wide-ranging interests in the ecology and evolution of the Australian flora, Keighery published accounts and observations on many poorly known or often overlooked topics, including ballistochory, breeding systems, chromosome numbers, cleistogamy, fauna, floral structure, geocarpy, hybridisation, phytogeography, pollination, rare flora, reproductive strategies, seed viability, vegetation surveys and weeds.

He joined the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Woodvale Research Centre, in 1984 to undertake Regional Biological Surveys of the Goldfields and Nullarbor.
He was then involved in botanical surveys throughout Western Australia, reserve design, taxonomy of weeds and selected native species, and community led botanical surveys.

From 2005 he was senior principal research scientist at the Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation.

Keighery is honoured by Acacia keigheryi Maslin, Calectasia keigheryi R.L.Barrett & K.W.Dixon, Eleocharis keigheryi K.L.Wilson, Gonocarpus keigheryi M.L.Moody, Macarthuria keigheryi Lepschi, Melaleuca keigheryi Craven, Stylidium keigheryi Lowrie & Carlquist and Tribonanthes keigheryi E.J.Hickman & Hopper.

Source: Extracted from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_John_Keighery
www.linkedin.com/in/greg-keighery-ab014649/?originalSubdomain=au
Barratt, Russell, 'Half a Century of Botanical Research and Discovery in Western Australia by Kings Park and Botanic Garden', J. Zool. Bot. Gard. , 2026, 7, 15
Portrait Photo: 2009, M.Fagg

Collecting localities for 'Keighery, G.J.' from AVH (2024)

Data from 32,782 specimens