Gwen Harden

{{short description|Australian botanist and author}}

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Gwenneth Jean Harden {{post-nominals|country=AUS|OAM}} (born 1940) is an Australian botanist and author.

In 1990 the first of her four volumes of the Flora of New South Wales was published.{{Citation | author1=Harden, G. J. (Gwenneth Jean) | title=Flora of New South Wales | date=1990 | publisher=NSW University Press | isbn=978-0-86840-188-1 }} The four-volume set was fully revised in 2000.{{Citation | author1=Harden, G. J. (Gwenneth Jean) | title=Flora of New South Wales | date=2000 | publisher=Kensington, N.S.W. UNSW University Press | edition=Rev. | isbn=978-0-86840-188-1 }}

The nightcap oak (Eidothea hardeniana) is named in her honour.{{cite web|author = |title=Eidothea hardeniana|url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eidothea~hardeniana|work=PlantNet -New South Wales Flora Online|publisher=|access-date=May 7, 2020}}{{cite web|author = |title=Harden, Gwenneth J. (1940-)

|url=https://www.ipni.org/a/39281-1|work=International Plant Name Index|publisher=|access-date=May 7, 2020}}

Harden was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2004 Australia Day Honours for her "service to botany as a researcher, publisher, conservationist and educator".{{Cite web |title=Mrs Gwenneth Jean HARDEN |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1056250 |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=Australian Honours Search Facility}}

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