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Joy Thompson (born Joy Gardiner-Garden, 1923, died 2018) was an Australian botanist. Her main research areas were taxonomy and Myrtaceae.

Joy Thompson
Born	Joy Gardiner-Garden 3 October 1923 Manly, Sydney
Died	15 August 2018(2018-08-15) (aged 94)[1] Moss Vale
Nationality	Australian
Education	Sydney University
Spouse	Max Thompson
Scientific career
Fields	Botany
Author abbrev. (botany)	Joy Thomps.

Life & Career

Thompson's university studies occurred during the second world war and in university vacations she worked in the Land Army near Maitland. She graduated in 1946 with a B.Sc. (Agric) from the University of Sydney, and went to work at the New South Wales Herbarium (then a part of the NSW department of Agriculture).[2] She was Honorary Secretary of the Systematic Botany Committee of ANZAAS from 1952 to 1954.[2]

In 1956 she married Max Thompson and, as a public servant, resigned from her position as was required at the time. Ten years later, after the birth of her two children, she returned to work at the Herbarium, in a part-time position.[2] On her retirement in 1982, she became an Honorary Research Associate,[3][1] and until 2009, continued to work in this role, making the 2.5 hour train journey from Mittagong once a week.[2]

The standard author abbreviation Joy Thomps. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[4]

Some publications

• 1993. A revision of the genus Swainsona (Fabaceae). Telopea 5(3): 427-581
• 1992. (with J. Everett) New alpine and subalpine species in Craspedia sens. strict. (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae). Telopea 5(1): 45-51
• 1991. Swainsona pyrophila (Fabaceae), a new name and synonymisation. Telopea 4(2): 359-359
• 1990. New species and new combinations in the genus Swainsona (Fabaceae) in New South Wales. Telopea 4(1): 1-5
• 1989. (with J.R. Clarkson) A revision of the genus Neofabricia (Myrtaceae). Telopea 3(3): 291-300
• 1989. A revision of the genus Leptospermum (Myrtaceae). Telopea 3(3): 301-449
• 1986. (with L.A.S. Johnson) Callitris glaucophylla Australia's 'White Cypress Pine' - a new name for an old species. Telopea 2(6): 731-736
• 1983. Redefinitions and nomenclatural changes within the Leptospermum suballiance of Myrtaceae. Telopea 2(4): 379-383
• 1981. A key to the plants of the subalpine and alpine zones of the Kosciusko region. Telopea 2(3): 219-297
• 1981. (with Max Gray)A check-list of the subalpine and alpine species found in the Kosciusko region of New South Wales. Telopea 2(3): 299-346
• 1976. A Revision of the Genus Tetratheca (Tremandraceae). Telopea 1(3): 139-215

Books

• 1993. A Revision of the Genus Swainsona (Fabaceae). Telopea (Sydney) 5 (3): 156 pp.
• 1986. A Revision of the Genus Leptospermum: Including a Discussion of the Variation Contained Within the Genus and Its Probable Significance as Indicating the Origin, Subsequent Evolution and Spread of the Group. Editor Univ. of Sydney, 678 pp.
• 1978. Polygalaceae. Flora of New South Wales 112: 118 pp.
• 1961. Papilionaceae. Flora of New South Wales 101: 91 pp.

Honours

Eponymy

• (Oxalidaceae) Oxalis thompsoniae B.J.Conn & P.G.Richards[5]
• (Poaceae) Agrostis thompsoniae S.W.L.Jacobs[6]

References

External links

• Data related to Joy Thompson at Wikispecies

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