Kevin R. Thiele is currently an adjunct associate professor at the

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and the director of Taxonomy Australia. He was the

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of the Western Australian Herbarium from 2006 to 2015. His research interests include the

systematics Biological systematics is the study of the diversification of living forms, both past and present, and the relationships among living things through time. Relationships are visualized as evolutionary trees (synonyms: cladograms, phylogenetic tre ...

of the plant families

Proteaceae The Proteaceae form a family of flowering plants predominantly distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises 83 genera with about 1,660 known species. Together with the Platanaceae and Nelumbonaceae, they make up the order Pro ...

Rhamnaceae The Rhamnaceae are a large family of flowering plants, mostly trees, shrubs, and some vines, commonly called the buckthorn family. Rhamnaceae is included in the order Rosales. The family contains about 55 genera and 950 species. The Rhamnaceae h ...

and

Violaceae Violaceae is a family of flowering plants established in 1802, consisting of about 1000 species in about 25 genera. It takes its name from the genus ''Viola'', the violets and pansies. Older classifications such as the Cronquist system placed t ...

, and the

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of grassy

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s. He also works in biodiversity informatics, developing and teaching the development of interactive

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s, and has been involved in the design of software for the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. He obtained a

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from the

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in 1993, and has since published many papers, notably a treatment of the

for the '' Flora of Australia'' series of monographs, and, with Pauline Ladiges, a taxonomic arrangement of ''Banksia''. In 2007 he collaborated with Austin Mast to transfer ''

Dryandra ''Banksia'' ser. ''Dryandra'' is a series of 94 species of shrub to small tree in the plant genus ''Banksia''. It was considered a separate genus named ''Dryandra'' until early 2007, when it was merged into ''Banksia'' on the basis of extensiv ...

'' to '' Banksia''. More recently, he has worked on pollination systems, taxonomy, vegetation dynamics, and described further new species. He has contributed over 2000 images to Wikipedia Commons of Western Australian plants and weeds.Wikimedia commons - Photographs by Kevin Thiele
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Selected recent publications

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Some taxa authored by K.R.Thiele

* Taxa named by Kevin Thiele

References

External links

Taxonomy AustraliaKevin Thiele Publications (UWA)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Thiele, Kevin Richard Botanists active in Australia Botany in Western Australia Living people Scientists from Western Australia 1959 births