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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2012-01-25 human Rebecca Rigby and Helen Cohn updated 2026-03-31 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004927b.htm person Lee Alma Theodora AACR2 Melvaine, Alma 12 April 1912 20 October 1990 Place of Birth New South Wales, Australia Place of Death Wellington, New South Wales, Australia Botanist Botanical collector Alma Lee was a botanist at the National Herbarium of New South Wales from 1938. Her research focused on the families Lomandraceae, Xanthorrhoeaceae and Fabaceae, in which family she concentrated on the genera Swainsona, Bossiaea, Psoralea, Crotalaria, Platylobium, Templetonia, Hovea, and Aenictphyton. She sought to understand species and subspecies in relation to population variability, hybridism, and environmental and evolutionary concepts. In this she influenced the development of Australian botanical taxonomic studies more broadly. Lee was senior author of the second part of the general treatment of Fabaceae in the "Flora of New South Wales" series. The plant genus Almaleea (Fabaceae) was named in her honour. 1935 1935 Education - Bachelor of Science (Botany) 1938 1947? Career position - Botanist, National Herbarium of New South Wales 1963? 1982 Career position - Botanist (part-time), National Herbarium of New South Wales 1982 1986 Career position - Honorary Research Associate, National Herbarium of New South Wales National Herbarium of New South Wales, Colony and State of New South Wales (1896 - )

Botanist 1938 - ?1947, 1963? - 1982

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 'Lee, Alma Theodora', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Lee, Alma Theodora Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Joyce Winifred Vickery 1908-1979 Lee, Alma Joyce Winifred Vickery 1908-1979 1980 Telopea 2 1 1-9 Journal Article: Alma Theodora Lee (1912-1990) Briggs, Barbara Alma Theodora Lee (1912-1990) 1991 Telopea 4 2 141-3 Resource: Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators Fagg, Murray Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria (CHAH) 2010