Malcolm Eric Trudgen

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Malcolm Eric Trudgen (born 1951) is a West Australian botanist.

He has published some 105 botanical names.[https://www.ipni.org/a/27931-1 IPNI: Trudgen, Malcolm Eric (1951-)] He currently runs his own consulting company, ME Trudgen and Associates.{{Cite web|title=M.E. Trudgen and Associates|url=https://researchdata.edu.au/me-trudgen-associates/689760|access-date=2020-07-04|website=Research Data Australia|language=en}}

He has worked in the Pilbara.{{Cite Q|Q100730205}}{{Cite Q|Q97898124}}{{Cite Q|Q96016698}}

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Some publications

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  • {{cite journal|author=Trudgen, M.E. |date=1986|title= Reinstatement and revision of Rinzia Schauer (Myrtaceae, Leptospermeae, Baeckeinae)|journal= Nuytsia|volume= 5|pages= 415–439|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53192033}}.
  • {{cite book|author=Trudgen, M.E., & Griffin, E.A. |date=2001| title=A Flora, Vegetation and Floristic Survey of the Burrup Peninsula, Some Adjoining Areas and Part of the Dampier Archipelago with Comparisons to the Floristics of Areas on the Adjoining Mainland: Floristic Analysis of Vegetation Site Data from the Burrup Peninsula, Dolphin, Angel and Gidley Islands with Data from Cape Preston, the Chichester Ranges and Other Localities| publisher=ME Trudgen and Associates}}
  • {{cite book|author=Trudgen, M.E. |date=1984|title= A flora and vegetation survey of the Weeli Wolli Creek area|publisher= (Unpublished report prepared for the Mt Newman Mining Company.)}}
  • {{cite book|author=Trudgen, M.E. & Casson, N.|date=1998|title= Flora and vegetation survey of Orebody A and Orebody B in the West Angelas Hill area, an area surrounding them, and of rail route options considered to link them to the existing Robe River Iron Associates rail line|publisher= (Unpublished report for Robe River Iron Associates.)}}
  • {{cite book|author=Trudgen, M.E.|date=2002|title= A flora, vegetation and floristic survey of the Burrup Peninsula, some adjoining areas and part of the Dampier Archipelago, with comparisons to the floristic of areas on the adjacent mainland|publisher= (Unpublished report for the Department of Minerals & Petroleum Resources: Perth.)}}
  • {{cite journal | author = Rye, B.L. & Trudgen, M.E. | year = 2008 | title = Seorsus a new Gondwanan genus of Myrtaceae with a disjunct distribution in Borneo and Australia | journal = Nuytsia | volume = 18 | pages = 235–257 |url=http://www.dec.wa.gov.au/images/stories/nature/science/nuytsia/18/235-257.pdf}}
  • {{Cite Q|Q98565601}}
  • {{Cite Q|Q100730234}}

Honours

  • A daisy, Pilbara trudgenii, which he and Colma Keating discovered in 1985 east of Paraburdoo in the Hamersley Range and which has been named in his honour.{{Cite web|last=Western Australian Herbarium, Biodiversity and Conservation Science|date=2013|title=FloraBase—the Western Australian Flora: Plant of the month Pilbara trudgenii|url=https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/potm/?y=2013&m=6|access-date=2020-07-04|website=florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Pilbara trudgenii {{!}} International Plant Names Index|url=https://www.ipni.org/n/77136330-1|access-date=2020-07-04|website=www.ipni.org}}
  • Micromyrtus trudgenii, a Myrtaceae species,{{cite Q|Q100730356}}
  • a wattle, Acacia trudgeniana (Trudgen's wattle){{Cite web|title=Factsheet - trudgeniana|url=http://worldwidewattle.com/speciesgallery/descriptions/pilbara/html/trudgeniana.htm|access-date=2020-07-04|website=worldwidewattle.com}}{{cite journal|author=Maslin, B.R. & van Leeuwen, S.|date=2008|title=New taxa of Acacia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) and notes on other species from the Pilbara and adjacent desert regions of Western Australia|url=https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/science/nuytsia/479.pdf|journal=Nuytsia|volume=18|pages=180–183, Fig. 11}} and
  • a trigger plant, Stylidium trudgenii,{{Cite web|title=Vascular Plants|url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/name/apni/236658|access-date=2020-07-04|website=biodiversity.org.au}}{{cite journal|author=Lowrie, A. & Kenneally, K.F.|date=2004|title=Two new species of Stylidium (Stylidiaceae) from the south-east of Western Australia|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59135072|journal=The Western Australian Naturalist|volume=24|issue=3}} also honour Trudgen, because it was he who drew attention the existence of these plants.

Some published names

  • Aluta Rye & Trudgen, Nuytsia 13(2): 347 (2000).
  • Angasomyrtus Trudgen & Keighery, Nuytsia 4(3): 435 (1983). (not accepted, synonymous with Kunzea)
  • Astartea granitica Rye & Trudgen, Nuytsia 23: 239 (2013).
  • Astus Trudgen & Rye, Nuytsia 15(3): 502 (498-503) (2005).
  • Enekbatus Trudgen & Rye, Nuytsia 20: 241 (-242) (2010).
  • Ochrosperma Trudgen, Nuytsia 6(1): 11 (1987).
  • Seorsus Rye & Trudgen, Nuytsia 18: 248 (-249) (2008).

See also

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