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Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators (O)

 1700s – 2000

Based on the list  published by J.H. Willis, D. Pearson, M.T. Davis, and J.W. Green, Western Australian Herbarium Research Notes Number 12, August 1986.
Enhanced with information from George, A.S. (2009) Australian Botanist's Companion, Four Gables Press, WA.

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Surnames (Family names) starting with:
A     B     C     D     E     F     G     H     I     J     K     L     M     N     O     P-Q     R     S     T     U-V     W     X-Y-Z

OAKDEN, Emma, Miss

1848-1889

Collected for Mueller in TAS

notes

 

OAKLEY, Agnes Elizabeth

1864-1942

Flower painter, often native plants, Melbourne, VIC

notes 

 

OAKMAN, Harry

1906-2002

Horticulturist, landscape designer, botanical photographer, NSW, ACT

notes

portrait

OBENBERGER,

fl. 1915

Botanical artist, Prague

notes

 

O'BRIEN, Terence Phillip, Dr

1937-

Botanist, Reader Botany Monash Uni, VIC

notes

portrait

O'CONNOR, Anne

1939-

Botanical artist, NSW

notes

portrait

O'DONNELL, H.J.

fl.1886

See entry for O'DONNELL, William J.

 

 

O'DONNELL, William J.

fl.1883-88

Expedition leader, explorer, Kimberley region, NT, WA

notes

 

OFFICER, Edith (sister)

1872-1908

Amateur collector, nursing student, NSW

notes

 

OFFICER, Ernest (brother)

1870-1936

Pastoralist, collector, expeditioner, NSW

notes

portrait

OFFLER, Christina E., Dr

1945-

Palaeobotanist, SA, QLD

 

 

OGILVIE, P.

 

 

 

 

O'HALLORAN, Florence Julia

1874-1921

Collected for Mueller in SA.

notes

 

O'HALLORAN, Thomas Joseph Shuldham

1835-1922

Stipendiary magistrate, SA

 

 

OKTOBER, Tricia

fl. 2000s

Botanical illustrator

notes

 

OLDFIELD, Augustus Frederick

1820-1887

Botanist, TAS, WA

notes

 

OLDHAM, Thomas, Dr

fl. 1850-60

Geologist

 

 

OLIVER, J.

 

Collector of lichens

 

 

OLIVER, Walter Reginald Brook

1883-1957

Botanist, collected Pacific islands and NZ

 

 

OLLERENSHAW, Peter

fl. 1970s

Horticuluralist, nurseryman, ACT

notes

portrait

OLSEN, Albert Mervyn (Mick)

1917-2008

Fisheries offices, Alginates (Aust), TAS, SA

notes

portrait

OLSEN, Ian Sinclair

1943-

 

notes

 

O'NEILL, Margaret Molly

1913-2000

Naturalist, plant photographer, NSW

notes

portrait

ORAM, Nicola

1966-

Botanical illustrator

notes

portrait

ORAM, Rex Neville, Dr

1931-

Plant breeder

 

 

ORCHARD, Anthony Edward, Dr*

1946-

Botanist, Herbarium Curator, editor, SA, Tas, ACT

notes

portrait

ORCHARD, Theresa Ann, née HALLIDAY

1942–

Collector, author, SA, NZ, ACT

notes

portrait

O'REILLY, M.

fl. 1940s-60s

 

 

 

ORMAY, Peter I.

1938-2016

Carpenter, ranger, author, collector. Antarctic, ACT

notes

portrait

ORME, Andrew Edward

1978-

Photographer and collector for Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, NSW

 

 

O'ROURKE, J.

 

 

 

 

ORR, D.

 

 

 

 

O'RYAN, Clara, Mrs

 

 

 

 

O'RYAN, Kathleen Marie

1958-

Botanical illustrator, ACT

notes

 

OSBBORN, G.

fl. 1915

 

 

 

OSBORN, Edith May

1887-1958

English-born botanist, phycologist, UK, NSW, SA

notes

portrait

OSBORN, Theodore George Bentley

1887-1973

English-born botanist, ecologist, Professor, Koonamore, UK, NSW, SA

notes

portrait

OSBORNE, Elizabeth (Betsy) Jane

1954-

Botanical illustrator, worked for Flora of Aust., ACT

notes

portrait

O'SHANESY, John

1834-1899

Nurseryman, QLD

notes

 

O'SHANESY, Patrick Adams

1837-1884

Nurseryman, QLD

notes

 

OSSWALD, Ferdinand Carl

fl.1840s-1850s

German-born pharmacist, collector, Adelaide, SA

notes

 

OSTENFELD, Carl Emil Hansen

1873-1931

Danish botanist, Gardens Director, coll. WA

notes

portrait

OSTENFELD, Gertrud Hansen

1904-

Phycologist, illustrator; daughter of C.E.H.Ostenfeld

 

 

OSTERKAMP-MADSEN, Monika

fl. 2000's

Botanical illustrator, Darwin, NT

 

portrait

OVENDEN, Peter John

1929-

Forester, NSW

notes

 

OVERALL, J.

fl. 1920s

 

 

 

OWER, Leslie H.

fl. 1920-

Geologist

 

 

OXENFORD, R.A.

fl. 1940s

 

 

 

OXLEY, John Joseph William Molesworth

1783-1828

English-born Australian explorer and Surveyor-General, NSW

 

 portrait

 

Surnames (Family names) starting with:
A     B     C     D     E     F     G     H     I     J     K     L     M     N     O     P-Q     R     S     T     U-V     W     X-Y-Z


* = information contributed by the collector/illustrator themselves (to Willis et al) pre 1986

^^ = information from: George, A.S. (2009) Australian Botanist's Companion, Four Gables Press, WA.


Last Updated on 27 February, 2024 by CHAH webmaster (cpbr-info@anbg.gov.au)