Robert Chinnock

Robert J. (Bob) Chinnock (born 1943) is an Australian botanist who worked at the State Herbarium of South Australia as a senior biologist. He retired in 2008 but still works as an Honorary Research Associate.

His research interests include Eremophila[1] and related genera, the weedy Cactaceae, especially those in the genus Opuntia, and Australian ferns and clubmosses.[2]

His PhD thesis at Flinders University in 1982 was focused upon Myoporaceae [3]

He is the author of Eremophila and allied genera : a monograph of the plant family Myoporaceae.[4] (Plants in these genera are now included in the family Scrophulariaceae.)

References

  1. ↑ Richmond, Guy S; Chinnock, Robert J (1994-10-01), "Seed germination of the Australian desert shrub Eremophila (Myoporaceae)", The Botanical Review, New York Botanical Garden, v60 (n4): p483(21), ISSN 0006-8101
  2. ↑ "Dr RJ (Bob) Chinnock". Government of South Australia, Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  3. ↑ Chinnock, R. J. (Robert James) (1982), Taxanomy and relations in the Myoporaceae, retrieved 7 September 2016
  4. ↑ Chinnock, R.J. (Bob) (2007). Eremophila and allied genera : a monograph of the plant family Myoporaceae (1st ed.). Dural, NSW: Rosenberg. ISBN 9781877058165.
  5. ↑ IPNI.  Chinnock.

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