Norman Byrnes (botanist)

Norman Brice Byrnes (1922 – 1998) was an Australian botanist, specialising in taxonomy.

Byrnes was born in Adelaide on 18 December 1922. He served in the Australian Defence Force during World War II^[1] and following the war, in 1946 gained a Bachelor of Science from the University of Sydney.^[2]

Byrnes worked in Darwin in the Northern Territory from 1966 to 1973 then began at the Queensland Herbarium. He specialised in the families Combretaceae and Myrtaceae and his plant collections are stored in the Queensland and Northern Territory herbaria.^[3][4]

In 1986, Byrnes retired to live at Bingil Bay where he established an arboretum in Ross Overton Park at nearby Mission Beach and acted as coordinator for a local environment group called "C4". After his death, the arboretum was named the Norman Byrnes Arboretum in his honour.^[5][6]

He is the author of A revision of Combretaceae in Australia^[7] and of papers formally describing plants including Lophopetalum arnhemicum,^[8] Melaleuca biconvexa,^[9] Melaleuca punicea^[10] and Verticordia verticillata.^[11] The genus Neobyrnesia^[12] and plant species including Goodenia byrnesii^[13] and Grevillea byrnesii have been named in his honour.^[14]

References

1. "Byrnes, Norman Brice". Returned & Services League of Australia SA Branch. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
2. "Bachelors of Science" (PDF). University of Sydney. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
3. "Byrnes, Norman B." Australian National Botanic Garden. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
4. "Byrnes, Norman Brice (1922-1998)". jstor Global Plants. Retrieved 26 April 2016. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
5. "Mission Beach Historical Sites". Mission Beach Tourism. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
6. "Bulletin No. 156 December 2010" (PDF). Community for Coastal and Cassowary Conservation. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
7. Byrnes, Norman Brice (1977). A revision of Combretaceae in Australia. Brisbane: Queensland Herbarium, Dept. of Primary Industries. ISBN 978-0724204342.
8. Byrnes, Norman Brice (1971). "A new species of Lophopetalum (Celastraceae), a genus new for Australia". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 96 (425): 85–86. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
9. "Melaleuca biconvexa". APNI. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
10. "Melaleuca punicea". APNI. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
11. "Verticordia verticillata". APNI. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
12. Armstrong, James; Powell, Jocelyn (14 March 1980). "Neobyrnesia (Rutaceae): a new genus endemic to Northern Australia". Telopea. 1 (6): 399–408. doi:10.7751/telopea19803602.
13. Carolin, Roger (12 April 1990). "Nomenclatural notes and new taxa in the genus Goodenia (Goodeniaceae)". Telopea. 3 (4): 517–570. doi:10.7751/telopea19904905.
14. McGillivray, D.J. (1986). New names in Grevillea (Proteaceae). Castle Hill, N.S.W.: D.J. McGillivray. p. 3. ISBN 978-0731628971.
15. International Plant Names Index.  Byrnes.

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