Parris, Margaret Jean   (1915 - 1999)

Born 11 Nov 1915, Kew, Victoria, Australia; died 1 Oct 1999, Canberra, ACT (aged 83).

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Ecologist, east-coast Aust, NSW



Undertook a vegetation survey in the Nadgee Wilderness Area (or nature Reserve as it was then known) with many research plots in the 1970s and 1980s.



She was a close associate of Dane Wimbush, and did some collecting with Dave Albrecht.



She is honoured in the plant name:
Pomaderris parrisiae N.G. Walsh, sp. nov.
"The specific epithet honours Mrs Margaret Parris of Merimbula who has been an avid and skilled collector and observer of plants in the N.S.W. south-coast area, and who first brought this taxon to my attention."

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Portrait Photo: none known.

Collecting localities for 'Parris, M.' from AVH (2025)

Data from 4,748 specimens