Gwenda Louise Davis | |
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Born | Dorothy Gwenda Louise Rodway 1911 |
Died | 22 September 1993 | (aged 81–82)
Nationality | Australian |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Botany |
Institutions | University of New England (Australia) |
Author abbrev. (botany) | G.L.Davis |
Gwenda Louise Davis (1911–1993) was an Australian botanist.[1] She is known for her work on embryology,[2][3] in particular, for work on the embryology of Australian Asteraceae and the genus Eucalyptus.[4]
She started her career as a plant taxonomist in 1945 at the New England University College at Armidale (now the University of New England, and was largely responsible for the creation of the Department of Botany there. After a fire in 1958, which destroyed the building housing the Botany Department, she concentrated her research on plant embryology.[4]
The standard author abbreviation G.L.Davis is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]
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In 1936 she married Harrold Fosbery Consett Davis.[6] He died in an aircraft accident in New Guinea in 1944, aged 31, leaving Davis to bring up their three children.[7] Her father was the physician-botanist Frederick Arthur Rodway, and her paternal grandfather was the dentist-botanist Leonard Rodway.