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Joy Thompson
Born
Joy Gardiner-Garden

3 October 1923
Manly, Sydney
Died15 August 2018(2018-08-15) (aged 94)[1]
Moss Vale
NationalityAustralian
EducationSydney University
SpouseMax Thompson
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
Author abbrev. (botany)Joy Thomps.

Joy Thompson (born Joy Gardiner-Garden, 1923, died 2018) was an Australian botanist. Her main research areas were taxonomy and Myrtaceae.

Life and career

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Thompson's university studies occurred during the second world war and in university vacations she worked in the Land Army near Maitland. She graduated in 1946 with a B.Sc. (Agric) from the University of Sydney, and went to work at the New South Wales Herbarium (then a part of the NSW department of Agriculture).[2] She was Honorary Secretary of the Systematic Botany Committee of ANZAAS from 1952 to 1954.[2]

In 1956 she married Max Thompson and, as a public servant, resigned from her position as was required at the time. Ten years later, after the birth of her two children, she returned to work at the Herbarium, in a part-time position.[2] On her retirement in 1982, she became an Honorary Research Associate,[3][1] and until 2009, continued to work in this role, making the 2.5 hour train journey from Mittagong once a week.[2]

The standard author abbreviation Joy Thomps. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[4]

Some publications

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  • 1993. A revision of the genus Swainsona (Fabaceae). Telopea 5(3): 427-581
  • 1992. (with J. Everett) New alpine and subalpine species in Craspedia sens. strict. (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae). Telopea 5(1): 45-51
  • 1991. Swainsona pyrophila (Fabaceae), a new name and synonymisation. Telopea 4(2): 359-359
  • 1990. New species and new combinations in the genus Swainsona (Fabaceae) in New South Wales. Telopea 4(1): 1-5
  • 1989. (with J.R. Clarkson) A revision of the genus Neofabricia (Myrtaceae). Telopea 3(3): 291-300
  • 1989. A revision of the genus Leptospermum (Myrtaceae). Telopea 3(3): 301-449
  • 1986. (with L.A.S. Johnson) Callitris glaucophylla Australia's 'White Cypress Pine' - a new name for an old species. Telopea 2(6): 731-736
  • 1983. Redefinitions and nomenclatural changes within the Leptospermum suballiance of Myrtaceae. Telopea 2(4): 379-383
  • 1981. A key to the plants of the subalpine and alpine zones of the Kosciusko region. Telopea 2(3): 219-297
  • 1981. (with Max Gray)A check-list of the subalpine and alpine species found in the Kosciusko region of New South Wales. Telopea 2(3): 299-346
  • 1976. A Revision of the Genus Tetratheca (Tremandraceae). Telopea 1(3): 139-215

Books

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  • 1993. A Revision of the Genus Swainsona (Fabaceae). Telopea (Sydney) 5 (3): 156 pp.
  • 1986. A Revision of the Genus Leptospermum: Including a Discussion of the Variation Contained Within the Genus and Its Probable Significance as Indicating the Origin, Subsequent Evolution and Spread of the Group. Editor Univ. of Sydney, 678 pp.
  • 1978. Polygalaceae. Flora of New South Wales 112: 118 pp.
  • 1961. Papilionaceae. Flora of New South Wales 101: 91 pp.

Honours

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Eponymy

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References

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  1. ^ a b CHAH: Joy Thompson
  2. ^ a b c d Wilson, K.L.; Briggs, B.G. (2018). "Vale Joy Thompson 3 October 1923 – 15 August 2018" (PDF). Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter. 176: 23.
  3. ^ RBGS: Joy Thompson (honorary research associate)
  4. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Joy Thomps.
  5. ^ Conn, BJ; Richards, PG (1994). "A new species of Oxalis section Corniculatae (Oxalidaceae) from Australasia". Australian Systematic Botany. 7 (2): 171. doi:10.1071/SB9940171. ISSN 1030-1887.
  6. ^ Jacobs, S.W.L. (2002). "Four new species of Agrostis (Gramineae) from Australia". Telopea. 9 (3): 679–683. doi:10.7751/telopea20024007.
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