Lindy Webster Cayzer CF (born 25 April 1952) is an Australian botanist. (The

Australian Plant Name Index The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is an online database of all published names of Australian vascular plants. It covers all names, whether current names, synonyms or invalid names. It includes bibliographic and typification details, informati ...

consistently gives her author abbreviation as L.Cayzer.)

Early life and education

Cayzer was born on 25 April 1952, daughter of Robert and Rita Webster. She graduated from the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public university, public research university and member of the Group of Eight (Australian universities), Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton, A ...

with a PhD in 1997.

Career

Cayzer was awarded a

Churchill Fellowship Winston Churchill Memorial Trusts (WCMT) are three independent but related living memorials to Sir Winston Churchill, based in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. They exist for the purpose of administering Churchill Fellowships, a ...

in 2016 which enabled her to visit herbaria in Europe and South-East Asia to study the taxonomic data held on the Australian plant family

Pittosporaceae Pittosporaceae is a family of flowering plants that consists of 200–240 species of trees, shrubs, and lianas in 9 genera. Habitats range from tropical to temperate climates of the Afrotropical, Indomalayan, Oceanian, and Australasian r ...

. She was supported in this by her husband, Robin Cayzer. She has continued to work on Australian plants, publishing further work on

, a monograph on ''

Gastrolobium ''Gastrolobium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. There are over 100 species in this genus, and all but two are native to the south west region of Western Australia. A significant number of the species accumulate monofluo ...

'', and more recently, a monograph on ''

Daviesia ''Daviesia'', commonly known as bitter peas, is a genus of about 130 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, and is endemic to Australia. Plants in the genus ''Daviesia'' are shrubs or small trees with leaves modified as phyllodes or ...

'', and work on insect pests in timber.

Publications

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cayzer, Lindy W. 1952 births Living people 20th-century Australian botanists Australian National University alumni 21st-century Australian botanists 20th-century Australian women scientists

Early life and education

Career

Publications

See also

References