Michael Douglas Crisp (born 1950) is an emeritus professor in the Research School of Biology at the

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located in

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. In 1976, he gained a PhD from the

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, studying long-term vegetation changes in arid zones of South Australia. In 2020, Crisp moved to

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, where he has an honorary position at the

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. Together with colleagues, he revised various pea-flowered legume genera (''

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 ...

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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 ...

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Gompholobium ''Gompholobium'', commonly known as glory peas or wedge-peas, is a genus of plants in the pea family Fabaceae and is Endemism, endemic to Australia. Most species have compound leaves composed of three leaflets and all have ten stamens which are f ...

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Pultenaea ''Pultenaea'' is a genus of about 100 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, and is endemic to Australia. Plants in this genus are shrubs with simple leaves and orange or yellow flowers similar to others in the family but with the ...

'' and ''Jacksonia''). He has made considerable contributions to

biogeography Biogeography is the study of the species distribution, distribution of species and ecosystems in geography, geographic space and through evolutionary history of life, geological time. Organisms and biological community (ecology), communities o ...

phylogeny A phylogenetic tree or phylogeny is a graphical representation which shows the evolutionary history between a set of species or Taxon, taxa during a specific time.Felsenstein J. (2004). ''Inferring Phylogenies'' Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, M ...

and plant evolution.

Some taxa authored

*See :Taxa named by Michael Crisp

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Crisp, Michael 1950 births Living people University of Adelaide alumni Academic staff of the Australian National University Australian Botanical Liaison Officers