Michael D. Ferrero (born 1968) is a botanist who specialises in the

systematics 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: phylogenetic trees, phylogenies). Phy ...

and ecology of the

Arecaceae The Arecaceae () is a family (biology), family of perennial plant, perennial, flowering plants in the Monocotyledon, monocot order Arecales. Their growth form can be climbing palm, climbers, shrubs, tree-like and stemless plants, all commonly k ...

, with emphasis on the genera, ''

Calyptrocalyx ''Calyptrocalyx'' is a genus of plants in the palm family Arecaceae, native to New Guinea and the nearby Maluku Islands. Ranging from small to large, the palms in this genus are increasingly found in cultivation owing largely to their purple, re ...

'', ''

Gronophyllum ''Hydriastele'' is a diverse and widespread genus of flowering plant in the palm family found throughout northern Australia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and Southeast Asia. It consisted of just nine species until 2004, when molecular research, suppor ...

'', ''

Hydriastele ''Hydriastele'' is a diverse and widespread genus of flowering plant in the palm family found throughout northern Australia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and Southeast Asia. It consisted of just nine species until 2004, when molecular research, suppor ...

'' and has described more than 20 new species of palms. He has collected in Indo China,

Thailand Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spa ...

Australasia Australasia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising Australia, New Zealand (overlapping with Polynesia), and sometimes including New Guinea and surrounding islands (overlapping with Melanesia). The term is used in a number of different context ...

and

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...

Some publications

*Dowe,J.L. & Ferrero, M.D. (2000) ''Gronophyllum cariosum'', an Ornamental New Species from Papua New Guinea, ''Palms'' 2000 Vol.44 No.4 pp. 161–165. *Dowe, J.L. & Ferrero, M.D. (2001) Revision of ''Calyptrocalyx'' and the New Guinea species of ''Linospadix'' (Linospadicinae: Arecoideae: Arecaceae
''Blumea'' 46: 207-251
*Dowe, J,L. & Ferrero, M.D. (2000) A new species of rheophytic palm from New Guinea. ''Palms'', 44 (4). pp. 194–197.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ferrero, Michael D. 20th-century Australian botanists 1968 births Living people 21st-century Australian botanists