Barbara Rae Randell (born:Barbara Rae Redgen 1942) is an Australian botanist.
Early life
During the 1960s, Randell lived on her family's farm in
Redford in the western
Darling Downs
The Darling Downs is a farming region on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range in southern Queensland, Australia. The Downs are to the west of South East Queensland and are one of the major regions of Queensland. The name was generally ...
in
Queensland
Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...
, Australia.
Botanical career
The author's international identifier on the International Plant Names Index is 25305–1.
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Randell described plants in the genera ''Senna'' and '']Acacia
''Acacia'', commonly known as wattles or acacias, is a genus of about of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially, it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa, South America, and Austral ...
''.
Bibliography
References
20th-century Australian botanists
21st-century Australian botanists
University of Queensland alumni
Flinders University alumni
Living people
Date of birth missing (living people)
1942 births
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