Gwenda Louise Davis
{{short description|Australian botanist (1911-1993)}}
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| birth_name = Dorothy Gwenda Louise Rodway
| birth_date = 1911
| birth_place = Chatswood, New South Wales
| death_date = {{dda|1993|09|22|1911|df=y}}
| death_place = Port Macquarie, New South Wales
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| fields = Botany
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| workplaces=University of New England (Australia)
| nationality = Australian
| author_abbrev_bot = G.L.Davis
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Gwenda Louise Davis (1911–1993) was an Australian botanist.{{cite web|url=https://www.ipni.org/a/2027-1|title=Davis, Gwenda Louise (1911-1993)|website=The International Plant Name Index|access-date=22 January 2020}}
She is known for her work on embryology,{{Cite book|title=Systematic embryology of the angiosperms|last=Davis|first=G.L.|publisher=Wiley|year=1966|location=New York}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/|title=Angiosperm Phylogeny Website|website=www.mobot.org|access-date=2020-01-21}} in particular, for work on the embryology of Australian Asteraceae and the genus Eucalyptus.
She started her career as a plant taxonomist in 1945 at the New England University College at Armidale (now the University of New England, and was largely responsible for the creation of the Department of Botany there. After a fire in 1958, which destroyed the building housing the Botany Department, she concentrated her research on plant embryology.{{Cite web|url=https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/davis-gwenda.html|title=Davis, Gwenda|website=www.anbg.gov.au|access-date=2020-01-21}}
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Names published
- Brachyscome ascendens G.L.Davis, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 73: 175 (1948).
- Brachyscome blackii G.L.Davis, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 73: 207 (1948).
- Calotis cuneata (F.Muell. ex Benth.) G.L.Davis, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 77: 175 (1952)
- Podolepis neglecta G.L.Davis, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 81:. 259 (1957)
(These may not be accepted names.)
Publications
(incomplete)
- (1966) [https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10649095 Systematic embryology of the angiosperms]
- (1949) [https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/21929318 Revision of the genus Brachycome Cass. Part II, New Zealand species]
- (1948-1954) [https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/210013968 Revision of the genus Brachycome Cass.]
- (1950) [https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/21929268 Revision of the genus Solenogyne Cass.]
Personal
In 1936 she married Harrold Fosbery Consett Davis.{{cite news|date=6 December 1936|title=The Jottings OF A LADY ABOUT TOWN|page=37|newspaper=Truth|issue=2448|location=New South Wales, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article169585080|access-date=29 November 2020|via=National Library of Australia}} He died in an aircraft accident in New Guinea in 1944, aged 31, leaving Davis to bring up their three children.{{cite news|date=30 December 1944|title=Family Notices|page=18|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|issue=33,391|location=New South Wales, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27940480|access-date=29 November 2020|via=National Library of Australia}} Her father was the physician-botanist Frederick Arthur Rodway, and her paternal grandfather was the dentist-botanist Leonard Rodway.
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Category:20th-century Australian botanists
Category:Australian women botanists
Category:20th-century Australian women scientists
Category:Academic staff of the University of New England (Australia)