Juliet Ann Wege (born 1971 in

Western Australia Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Aust ...

) is an Australian

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 ...

. She graduated in 1992 and gained a PhD at The

University of Western Australia University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Crawley, Western Australia, Crawley, a suburb in the City of Perth local government area. UW ...

in 1999 with a thesis titled "Morphological and anatomical variation within Stylidium (Stylidiaceae): a systematic perspective". As of 2021 she works as a researcher at the

Western Australian Herbarium The Western Australian Herbarium is the state Herbarium, situated in Perth, the capital of Western Australia. It houses a collection of more than 845,000 dried specimens of plants, algae, bryophytes (mosses, liverworts and hornworts), lichens, fu ...

run by Western Australia's Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions and is managing editor of ''Nuytsia''. Her main area of expertise is in

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and study of the Stylidiaceae family of triggerplants. During 2005 and 2006 she was the Australian Botanical Liaison Officer at the Royal Botanic Gardens in

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Juliet Wege
Profile at Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions

* Botanists with author abbreviations Botanists active in Australia Botany in Western Australia Australian women botanists Australian Botanical Liaison Officers 1971 births Living people Scientists from Western Australia {{Australia-botanist-stub