Person
Pedley, Leslie (Les) (1930 - 2018)
- Born
- 19 May 1930
Ipswich, Queensland, Australia - Died
- 27 November 2018
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Occupation
- Botanist
Summary
Les Pedley was a taxonomic botanist who joined the Queensland Herbarium in 1848 as a cadet and retired in 1988 as Assistant Director. His principal research was in the Leguminosae, particularly Acacia. Pedley had an extensive knowledge of the Queensland flora, in part from numerous field surveys including for CSIRO in the 1960s. He published descriptions of over 180 new species, although his proposal that Australia's species of Acacia be referred to Racospermum did not meet with the agreement of the Australian botanical community. His collection of over 4,000 specimens is in the Queensland Herbarium. The genus Pedleya (Leguminosae) was named in his honour.
Details
Chronology
- 1948 - 1952
- Career position - Cadet, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Stock
- 1952?
- Education - BSc, University of Queensland
- 1953 - 1988
- Career position - Assistant Botanist (Later Assistant Director), Queensland Herbarium
- 1971 - 1972
- Career position - Australian Botanical Liaison Officer, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- 1977 - 1988
- Career position - Editor, Austrobaileya
- 1980
- Education - BA, University of Queensland
- 1980 - 1988
- Career position - Member, Editorial Committee, Flora of Australia
- 1988
- Life event - Retired
Related entries
Archival resources
Queensland Herbarium
- L. Pedley - Records, 1950 - 1970; Queensland Herbarium. Details
Published resources
Journal Articles
- Forster, Paul I., 'Mostly about wattles: the publications of Les Pedley', Austrobaileya, 10 (3) (2019), 291-6. Details
- Guymer, Gordon, 'Les Pedley', Australasian Systematic Botany Society newsletter, 178 (2019), 50-2, http://www.asbs.org.au/newsletter/pdf/19-march-178.pdf. Details
- Pedley, L., 'Stanley Thatcher Blake', Queensland naturalist, 44 (1/3) (2006), 17. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4347893. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/36029448. Details
- 'Pedley, L', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-559503. Details
Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 6 October 2023
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