Jeanes, Jeffrey A. (Jeff)   (1952 - )

Jeff was a Senior Botanist at Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne and later an Honorary Associate focusing mainly on indigenous and naturalised vascular plants of Victoria.

His research interests include the taxonomy of native orchids particularly members of the large, principally Australian, genus Thelymitra (Sun Orchids).

He has published several journal papers, resolving various species complexes within Thelymitra including the identification and description of many new species. This work has also resulted in the submission of a taxonomic revision of the genus for the Flora of Australia.

Jeff has also worked on the family Ranunculaceae and is co-author of this family in the Flora of Australia.

He was also part of a team looking at the taxonomy, fruit and seed morphology and germination response in Australian members of the genus Melicytus (Tree Violets). He has also published on Podolepis and Tetratheca.

In 2013 he was Botanist and Project Coordinator Victorian Conservation Seedbank/Millennium Seedbank Project - National Herbarium of Victoria.

He is co-author, with Gary Backhouse, of 'Wild Orchids of Victoria, Australia' (2006).

Source: Extracted from:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-jeanes-30b35373/?originalSubdomain=au
https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_A._Jeanes
http://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/staff/jeffrey-jeanes/jeffrey-jeanes (2013)
https://natureglenelg.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Seeds-of-Success-.pdf
Portrait Photo: http://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/staff/jeffrey-jeanes/jeffrey-jeanes (2013)

Collecting localities for 'Jeanes, J.A.' from AVH (2025)

Data from 5,351 specimens