Joy Everett (born 1953) is an Australian botanist. During her 28-year career at the National Herbarium in Sydney, she described 121 genera, species and subspecies. Her research focused on

Asteraceae Asteraceae () is a large family (biology), family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the Order (biology), order Asterales. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchi ...

and

Poaceae Poaceae ( ), also called Gramineae ( ), is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivate ...

and she has collected 2,285 specimens across Australia, but none in the Northern Territory. In 1990 Everett graduated from the

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD) is a public university, public research university in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in both Australia and Oceania. One of Australia's six sandstone universities, it was one of the ...

with a MSc for her thesis, "Systematic relationships of the Australian stipeae (Poaceae)".

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1953 births Living people Australian women botanists University of Sydney alumni {{Australia-botanist-stub