Theodore Ernest Holmes Aplin (1927 – 3 July 1991), known as Ted Aplin, was an Australian botanist who was educated in India and Australia. He spent most of his working life at the

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as an identification botanist, also doing administrative work for

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. Aplin collected more than 6,000 plant specimens for the herbatium, and the genus '' Taplinia'' is named in his honour.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Aplin, Theodore 20th-century Australian botanists 1927 births 1991 deaths