Anna Monro (born 1974) is an

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botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

, who is working on compiling the

Australian Plant Census The Australian Plant Census (APC) provides an online interface to currently accepted, published, scientific names of the vascular flora of Australia, as one of the output interfaces of the national government Integrated Biodiversity Information Sys ...

. Her interests include the

taxonomy image:Hierarchical clustering diagram.png, 280px, Generalized scheme of taxonomy Taxonomy is a practice and science concerned with classification or categorization. Typically, there are two parts to it: the development of an underlying scheme o ...

of the Australian members of the family ''

Polygalaceae The Polygalaceae or the milkwort family are made up of flowering plants in the order Fabales. They have a near-cosmopolitan range, with about 27 genera and ''ca''. 900 known species of herbs, shrubs and trees. Over half of the species are in on ...

'', in preparation for their inclusion in the ''

Flora of Australia The flora of Australia comprises a vast assemblage of plant species estimated to over 21,000 vascular and 14,000 non-vascular plants, 250,000 species of fungi and over 3,000 lichens. The flora has strong affinities with the flora of Gondwana, ...

''. She is the leader for the "Communications and Outreach" program at the Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research. From 2004 to 2008, she served as treasurer of the Australasian Systematic Botany Society (ASBS) and, , is its publicity officer. She was awarded life membership of the ASBS in 2024. Her name, along with that of Brendan Lepschi is honoured in the name of the species of flowering plant, '' Goodenia brendannarum''.

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Monro's research
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1974 births 20th-century Australian botanists Living people Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Australian botanists {{Australia-botanist-stub