Eleanor Marion Bennett

{{Short description|Botanist}}

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|birth_date = {{birth-date and age|4 February 1942}}

|birth_place = Subiaco, Western Australia

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|citizenship = Australian

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|field = botany

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|alma_mater = The University of Western Australia{{cite web|title=50th Reunion of the Graduates of 1964|url=http://www.convocation.uwa.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/2746095/Booklet_1964.pdf|publisher=University of Western Australia|accessdate=2 January 2016}}

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Eleanor Marion Bennett (born 4 February 1942) (née Scrymgeour) is an Australian botanist who was employed by the Western Australian Herbarium from 1965 to 1970. She collected Eucalyptus species in the south-west of Western Australia and published a revision of the genus Hybanthus in 1972.{{cite web|title=Scrymgeour, Eleanor Marion (1942 - ) [Bennett, Eleanor Marion]|url=http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/scrymgeour-eleanor-marion.html|publisher=Australian National Botanic Garden|accessdate=2 January 2016}}{{cite journal|last1=Bennett|first1=Eleanor M.|title=A revision of the Australian species of Hybanthus Jacquin (Violaceae)|journal=Nuytsia|date=14 November 1972|volume=1|issue=3|pages=218–241}} She is the author of two books: Bushland Plants of Kings Park, Western Australia{{cite book|last1=Bennett|first1=Eleanor M.|title=The bushland plants of Kings Park, Western Australia|date=1988|publisher=Kings Park and Botanic Garden|location=Perth|isbn=073165031X}} and Common and aboriginal names of Western Australian plant species.{{cite book|last1=Bennett|first1=Eleanor M.|title=Common and Aboriginal names of Western Australian plant species|date=1991|publisher=Wildflower Society of Western Australia, Eastern Hills Branch|location=Boya, Western Australia|isbn=0959544348|edition=2nd}} Bennett was also one of the authors of Flora of the Perth region.{{cite book|last1=Marchant|first1=N.G. |display-authors=etal |title=Flora of the Perth region|date=1987|publisher=Western Australian Herbarium|location=Perth|isbn=0724489665}}

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