Barry John Conn (Barry Conn, born 1948), is an Australian botanist.[1] He was awarded a Ph.D. from Adelaide University in 1982 for work on Prostanthera.[2]
Conn's first appointment as a botanist was with the Lae Herbarium in 1974. He then became herbarium curator and a lecturer at the Papua New Guinea Forestry College, Bulolo (1976–1979). He is a scientific advisor to the Food and Agriculture Organisation. In Australia, he has been senior botanist at the National Herbarium of Victoria (1982–1987), and botanist (and principal research scientist) at the National Herbarium of New South Wales (1987–2015). In 1994-1995, he was Australian Botanical Liaison Officer at Kew. While with the National Herbarium of New South Wales, he managed the Australia’s Virtual Herbarium Project for New South Wales, and was scientific editor of the journal Telopea from 2013 to 2015.[4]
Womersley, J.S.; Henty, E.E.; Conn, B.J., eds. (1978). Handbooks of the flora of Papua New Guinea(Vol I). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
Henty, E.E.; Womersley, J.S.; Conn, B.J., eds. (1981). Handbooks of the flora of Papua New Guinea (Vol II). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
Conn, B.J., ed. (1995). Handbooks of the flora of Papua New Guinea (Vol III). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
Articles
Conn, B. J.; Streiber, N.; Brown, E. A.; Henwood, M. J.; Olmstead, R. G. (2009). "Infrageneric phylogeny of Chloantheae (Lamiaceae) based on chloroplast ndhF and nuclear ITS sequence data". Australian Systematic Botany. 22 (4): 243. doi:10.1071/SB09011.
Conn, Barry J. (1984). "A taxonomic revision of Prostanthera Labill. section Klanderia (F.v. Muell.) Benth.(Labiatae)". Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. 6 (3): 207–348. JSTOR23873911.
Hadiah, Julisasi T.; Conn, Barry J.; Quinn, Christopher J. (2008). "Infra-familial phylogeny of Urticaceae, using chloroplast sequence data". Australian Systematic Botany. 21 (5): 375. doi:10.1071/SB08041. pdf