Mark Alwin Clements (b. 1949) is an Australian botanist and

orchidologist This is a list of orchidologists, botanists specializing in the study of orchids. The list is sorted in the surname alphabetical order. A * Oakes Ames (botanist) (1874–1950), an American biologist specializing in orchids Joseph Arditti (1932- ...

. He obtained his doctorate at the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and ...

defending his thesis entitled ''Reproductive Biology in relation to phylogeny of the Orchidaceae, especially the tribe Diurideae''. In 2008 he 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 Departm ...

in Canberra. 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

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Orchidaceae Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant. Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering ...

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Flickingeria ''Dendrobium'' is a genus of mostly epiphytic and lithophytic orchids in the family Orchidaceae. It is a very large genus, containing more than 1,800 species that are found in diverse habitats throughout much of south, east and southeast Asia, i ...

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D.L.Jones David Lloyd Jones (born 1944) is an Australian horticultural botanist and the author of many books and papers, especially on Australian orchids. Jones was born in Victoria and in his youth was a student at Burnley Horticultural College, then th ...

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Microtatorchis ''Taeniophyllum'', commonly known as ribbon roots or 带叶兰属 (dai ye lan shu) is a genus of about 240 species of epiphytic or lithophytic plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Plants in this genus are more or less leafless with a very ...

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