Mark Alwin Clements () 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 ...

and orchidologist. He obtained his doctorate at 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 ...

defending his thesis entitled ''Reproductive Biology in relation to phylogeny of the Orchidaceae, especially the tribe Diurideae''. In 2008, Clements was a researcher at the Center for Research on Plant Biodiversity at the

Australian National Botanic Gardens The Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) is a heritage-listed botanical garden located in , Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Established in 1949, the Gardens is administered by the Australian Government's Departme ...

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. As of January 2012, it had identified and classified 1,992 new species.

Publications

* * Indsto, JO; Weston PH; Clements MA; Dyer AG; Batley M; Whelan RJ. 2006
''Pollination of ''Diuris maculata'' (Orchidaceae) by male ''Trichocolletes venustus'' bees''
Australian Journal of Botany 54 (7): 669 * MA Clements. 2006
''Molecular phylogenetic systematics in Dendrobieae (Orchidaceae)''
Aliso 22: 465—480 * Indsto, JO; PH Weston; MA Clements; RJ Whelan. 2005. ''Highly sensitive DNA fingerprinting of orchid pollinaria remnants using AFLP''. Australian Systematic Botany 18 (3): 207 - 213 * MA Clements. 2003
''Molecular phylogenetic systematics in the Dendrobiinae (Orchidaceae), with emphasis on Dendrobium section Pedilonum''
Telopea 10: 247—298 * Jones, DL; MA Clement. 2002. ''A Review of Pterestylis (orchidaceae).'' Ed. Australian Orchid Foundation.

Honours

* (

Orchidaceae Orchids are plants that belong to the family (biology), family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant. Orchids are cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan plants that ...

) '' Flickingeria clementsii'' D.L.Jones * (Orchidaceae) '' Microtatorchis clementsii'' D.L.Jones and B.GrayOrchadian 15(5): 201 (200-202; fig.) 2006

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Mark Clements
at the Center for Australian National Biodiversity Research {{DEFAULTSORT:Clements, Mark Alwin Australian National University alumni 20th-century Australian botanists 1949 births Living people 21st-century Australian botanists Orchidologists