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Lyndley Alan Craven (1945 – 11 July 2014) was a botanist who became the Principal Research Scientist of the Australian National Herbarium.
Lyndley ("Lyn") Craven worked for the CSIRO plant taxonomy unit of the New Guinea Survey Group, Division of Land Research and Regional Survey from 1964 to 1967. This was part of a unit that became the Australian National Herbarium, Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research. Craven's duties included botanical support for land resources surveys.
Craven then left to study horticulture at Burnley Horticultural College, Victoria, earning the degree of Diploma of Horticultural Science in 1970 before being briefly employed by the Parks and Gardens Branch of Department of the Interior, Canberra. Part of this department later became the Canberra Botanic Garden and eventually the Australian National Herbarium, Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research at the Australian National Botanic Gardens. In 1984, he earned the degree of Master of Science from Macquarie University. Craven was employed by the CSIRO at the National Herbarium from 1971, until his retirement in 2009 from the position of Principal Research Scientist.
Craven continued his association with CSIRO as a post-retirement fellow, working actively on a range of taxonomic projects.
Craven worked on the genera Melaleuca and Syzygium (family Myrtaceae) and related groups, as well as Australian representatives of the genera Hibiscus and Gossypium. He had many other interests including the herbarium library, botanical Latin, and agrihorticultural botany. Plant collecting was also a high priority.
Published works
- "Physiological, anatomical and biochemical characterisation of photosynthetic types in genus Cleome (Cleomaceae)". Functional Plant Biology. Volume 34, Number 4. 2007.
- "Callistemon of New Caledonia transferred to Melaleuca (Myrtaceae)". Adansonia 20(1): 191-194. 1998.
- "Australian representatives of Macrostelia transferred to Hibiscus (Malvaceae), with the description of a new species". Adansonia 26(2): 235-240. 2004.
Species for which Craven is a taxon authority
- Glycine albicans
- Glycine hirticaulis
- Glycine lactovirens
- Glycine pindanica
- Hibiscus aneuthe
- Hibiscus aphelus
- Hibiscus bacalusius
- Hibiscus cravenii
- Hibiscus fallax
- Hibiscus marenitensis
- Hibiscus orarius
- Hibiscus reflexus
- Hibiscus saponarius
- Hibiscus squarrulosus
- Hibiscus stewartii
- Melaleuca amydra
- Melaleuca atroviridis
- Melaleuca barlowii
- Melaleuca beardii
- Melaleuca boeophylla
- Melaleuca borealis
- Melaleuca brophyi
- Melaleuca caeca
- Melaleuca calyptroides
- Melaleuca campanae
- Melaleuca carrii
- Melaleuca clavifolia
- Melaleuca croxfordiae
- Melaleuca delta
- Melaleuca dempta
- Melaleuca eulobata
- Melaleuca eurystoma
- Melaleuca eximia
- Melaleuca exuvia
- Melaleuca fabri
- Melaleuca glena
- Melaleuca grieveana
- Melaleuca halophila
- Melaleuca hnatiukii
- Melaleuca hollidayi
- Melaleuca huttensis
- Melaleuca idana
- Melaleuca interioris
- Melaleuca johnsonii
- Melaleuca keigheryi
- Melaleuca laetifica
- Melaleuca lara
- Melaleuca leuropoma
- Melaleuca linguiformis
- Melaleuca longistaminea
- Melaleuca monatha
- Melaleuca monatha
- Melaleuca nematophylla
- Melaleuca orbicularis
- Melaleuca osullivanii
- Melaleuca papillosa
- Melaleuca penicula
- Melaleuca phoidophylla
- Melaleuca podiocarpa
- Melaleuca procera
- Melaleuca ryeae
- Melaleuca sapientes
- Melaleuca scalena
- Melaleuca similis
- Melaleuca societatis
- Melaleuca squamophloia
- Melaleuca stereophloia
- Melaleuca stipitata
- Melaleuca stramentosa
- Melaleuca sylvana
- Melaleuca systena
- Melaleuca thapsina
- Melaleuca tinkeri
- Melaleuca uxorum
- Melaleuca venusta
- Melaleuca villosisepala
- Melaleuca vinnula
- Melaleuca wonganensis
- Melaleuca zeteticorum
- Melaleuca zonalis
- Plethodon chlorobryonis
Species assessed
- Lithops hermetica