Anthony Russell Bean (born 1957) is an Australian botanist who works at the Queensland Herbarium and

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. Since 1982, he has led the Eucalyptus Study Group of the Society for Growing Australian Plants.

Career

From at least 1989, he was working at

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, Division of Plant Industry, in Nambour, Queensland, and much of that work was on Eucalypts. In later years he has contributed to the history of Australian botany, with work on

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, Frederick Kenny, and

Cyril Tenison White Cyril Tenison ("C.T.") White (17 August 1890 – 15 August 1950) was an Australian botanist. Early life White was born in Brisbane to Henry White, a trade broker, and Louisa ''nee'' Bailey. He attended school at South Brisbane State School, an ...

Names published

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lists 343 names published by Bean. Examples are: * ''

Alphitonia pomaderroides ''Alphitonia'' is a genus of arborescent flowering plants comprising about 20 species, constituting part of the buckthorn family (Rhamnaceae). They occur in tropical regions of Southeast Asia, Oceania and Polynesia. These are large trees or shrub ...

'' (Fenzl) A.R.Bean. * '' Eucalyptus exilipes'' M.I.H. Brooker & A.R. Bean

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