Joy Thompson

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). She was Honorary Secretary of the Systematic Botany Committee of ANZAAS from 1952 to 1954.

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. On her retirement in 1982, she became an Honorary Research Associate,[https://web.archive.org/web/20070314152640/http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/organisation_businesses/our_people/research_associates/Joy_Thompson RBGS: Joy Thompson (honorary research associate)][https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/thompson-joy.html CHAH: Joy Thompson] and until 2009, continued to work in this role, making the 2.5 hour train journey from Mittagong once a week.

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• 1993. A revision of the genus Swainsona (Fabaceae). [http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/emuwebnswlive/objects/common/webmedia.php?irn=75803&reftable=ebibliography Telopea 5(3): 427-581]
• 1992. (with J. Everett) New alpine and subalpine species in Craspedia sens. strict. (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae). [http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/emuwebnswlive/objects/common/webmedia.php?irn=75647&reftable=ebibliography Telopea 5(1): 45-51]
• 1991. Swainsona pyrophila (Fabaceae), a new name and synonymisation. [http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/emuwebnswlive/objects/common/webmedia.php?irn=75773&reftable=ebibliography Telopea 4(2): 359-359]
• 1990. New species and new combinations in the genus Swainsona (Fabaceae) in New South Wales. [http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/emuwebnswlive/objects/common/webmedia.php?irn=75748&reftable=ebibliography Telopea 4(1): 1-5]
• 1989. (with J.R. Clarkson) A revision of the genus Neofabricia (Myrtaceae). [http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/emuwebnswlive/objects/common/webmedia.php?irn=75738&reftable=ebibliography Telopea 3(3): 291-300]
• 1989. A revision of the genus Leptospermum (Myrtaceae). [http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/emuwebnswlive/objects/common/webmedia.php?irn=75739&reftable=ebibliography 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. [http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/emuwebnswlive/objects/common/webmedia.php?irn=75612&reftable=ebibliography 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

• 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.

• (Oxalidaceae) Oxalis thompsoniae B.J.Conn & P.G.Richards{{cite journal|last1=Conn|first1=BJ|last2=Richards|first2=PG|title= A new species of Oxalis section Corniculatae (Oxalidaceae) from Australasia|journal=Australian Systematic Botany|volume=7|issue=2|year=1994|pages=171|issn=1030-1887|doi=10.1071/SB9940171}}
• (Poaceae) Agrostis thompsoniae S.W.L.Jacobs{{cite journal|

author=Jacobs, S.W.L. |date=2002|title=Four new species of Agrostis (Gramineae) from Australia. |url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/emuwebnswlive/objects/common/webmedia.php?irn=39168&reftable=ebibliography| journal= Telopea|

volume= 9| issue=3 |pages=679–683|doi=10.7751/telopea20024007|doi-access=free}}

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