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      Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria |  | 
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| LAAN, Adolf van der | fl. 1717-1768 | Botanical engraver (probably Dutch) | 
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| LABILLARDIERE, Jacques Julien Houtou ["Houton", "Houtton"] de | 1755-1834 | French naturalist, botanist, author | ||
| LADIGES. Pauline Yvonne, Dr* | 1948- | Numerical taxonomist, phylogenetic systematist, VIC | ||
| LAIDLAW, William | -1925 | Botanist, Gardens Director | 
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| LAING, Robert Malcolm | 1865- | Naturalist | 
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| LAING, W. | 
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| LAIRD, Norman Ramsay | 1915-1978 | Collector, wildlife photographer, filmmaker, TAS | ||
| LALLY, Terena | fl.1990s-2000s | Herbarium botanist, Perth and Canberra, WA, ACT | 
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| LAM, Johannes Herman, Prof.* | 1892-1977 | Botanist | 
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| LAMARTINIERE. Bossieu | fl. 1785-88 | Medical officer, botanist | 
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| LAMBERT | 
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| LAMBTON, Alfred Harbord, Rev. | 1887-1979 | Priest, Qld and PNG | 
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| LAMONT, Byron Bernard | 1945- | Ecologist, physiologist | 
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| LAMONT, E., Miss | fl. 1888 | Phycologist | 
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| LAMONT, Eva Frances (later Mrs BOWKETT) | 1861-1945 | Collected for Mueller in QLD | 
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| LAMONT, G.F., Miss | 
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| LAMONT, James, Rev. | 1844-1928 | Presbyterian Moderator, UK, Hong Kong, NSW | ||
| LANDER, Nicholas Sean | 1948- | Herbarium botanist, Asteraceae, Malvaceae, NSW, WA | ||
| LANDSBOROUGH, Miss | fl.1890s | Collected for Mueller near Toowoomba, QLD | 
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| LANDSBOROUGH, William | 1825-1886 | Explorer, naturalist | 
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| LANE POOLE, Charles Edward | 1885-1970 | Forest Inspector-General, writer, WA | ||
| LANG, John Dunmore, Rev., Dr | 1799-1878 | Presbyterian minister, politician, writer | 
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| LANG, Peter John* | 1955- | 
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| LANG, William H., Prof | 1874-ob. | Palaeobotanist | 
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| LANGDON | fl. 1930s | 
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| LANGDON, Raymond Forbes Newton* | 1916- | Botanist | 
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| LANGE, Robert Terence Dr* | 1934- | Botanist, plant palaeobotanist | 
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| LANGFIELD, Ernest Clarence Boyd | fl. 1948-52 | 
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| LANGLEY, Jean | fl. 1960s | 
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| LANGLEY, Laurence Joseph | 1917-2007 | Seed supplier (esp eucalypts), horticulturist, VIC, NSW | ||
| LANGOIS, Vincent Marie | 1756-? | Botanical engraver, France | 
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| LANGDON, Raymond Forbes Newton | 1916-2014 | Mycologist at Univ. Qld from 1940 to 1981, QLD | 
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| LANKESTER, A.E. | fl. 1890s | 
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| LANYON, M. | 
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| LAPINPURO, Liisa | 
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| LARGE, Richard | 1882-1967 | Forrester, NSW | 
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| LASERON, Charles Francis | 1887-1959 | Antarctic expeditioner, museum curator, NSW | ||
| LASSAK, Erich V. | 1934-2015 | Researched essential oils in Aust plants, NSW | ||
| LA TROBE, Charles Joseph | 1801-1875 | Governor, city planner | 
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| LATTORFF, H. | fl. 1880s | 
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| LATZ, Peter Kenneth* | 1941- | Herbarium botanist, ethnobotanist, agrostologist, NT | ||
| LAU [LAW], Hermann | fl. 1860s | 
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| LAUGHTON, Annie Watson | 1853-1903 | Flower painter, watercolour and oil, Mt Lofty ranges, SA | 
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| LAUTERBACH, Carl Adolf George | 1864-1937 | Botanist, in Aust Oct-Nov 1889, also PNG | 
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| LAUTERER, Joseph, Dr | 1848-1911 | Medical Doctor, Phytochemist | 
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| LAVARACK, Peter S. (Bill) Dr | 1942- | Botanist, orchidologist, QLD | ||
| LAVERY, H.J. | fl. 1960s | 
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| LAW-SMITH, Joan, Lady* | 1919- | Artist | 
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| LAWES, William George, Rev. | 1839-1907 | Missionary | 
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| LAWLER, Len | 1925-2011 | Orchid ethnologist, collector, QLD | ||
| LAWRENCE, Margaret Elizabeth | 1953- | Botanist | 
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| LAWRENCE, Robert William | 1807-1833 | Naturalist, plant collector, TAS | 
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| LAWSON, Abercrombie Anstruther | 1870-1927 | Prof Botany Uni Sydney from 1913, NSW | ||
| LAWSON, John, Prof. | El.1870s | 
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| LAWSON, Marmaduke Alexander, Prof | 1840--1896 | Botanist | 
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| LAY, Brendan Gregory* | 1947- | Ecologist | 
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| LAYARD | fl. 1850s | Algae collector | 
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| LAZARIDES, Michael* | 1928-2011 | Botanist, agrostologist, with CSIRO Canberra, ACT | ||
| LEA, Arthur Mills | 1868-1932 | Entomologist | 
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| LEA, Thomas Simcox, Rev. | 1857-1939 | Anglican clergyman, UK, SA | 
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| LEACH | fl. 1890s | 
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| LEACH, Gregory John, Dr* | 1952- | University lecturer, herbarium botanist, NT | ||
| LEAFERS | fl. 1890s | 
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| LEAKE, Georgiana Mary (nee Kingsford) | 1812-1896 | Amateur flower painter, Perth, WA | 
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| LEAKE, Robert Buck | c.1837-1924 | Pharmaceutical chemist | 
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| LEARMONT, Noel Ful[ord | 1880-1970 | Naturalist, historian | 
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| LEARY, E. | 
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| LEBLER, Beryl A., Mrs | fl. 1970s | Botanist | 
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| LEDGER, Charles | 1818-1905 | Adventurer, plant/animal exporter | 
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| LEE, Alma T., Mrs, (née MELVAINE*) | 1912-1990 | Botanist, initially CSIRO Canberra, later Herbarium Sydney, NSW | ||
| LEE, Arthur | fl. 1900-15 | 
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| LEE, Helen Mary, Mrs, (née PURNELL*) | 1925- | Botanist | 
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| LEE, Ida, see MARRIOI'T | 
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| LEE, Robert D. | fl. 1940s | Photographer, mycologist | 
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| LEECH, Penny | 1947 | Botanical/architectural artist | 
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| LEFROY, John Henry, Sir | 1817-1890 | Governor | 
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| LEFROY, de Courcy | fl. 1885-1889 | 
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| LE GRAND | 
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| LEHMANN, Friedrich Carl | 1850-1903 | German consul in Columbia, S America, amateur botanist; never visited Australia | 
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| LEHMANN, Johann Georg Christian | 1792-1860 | Botanist/professor in Hamburg, Germany; never visited Australia | 
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| LEIBOLD, Fredrich Ernst | 1804-1864 | 
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| LEIBOLDT | 
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| LEICHHARDT, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig, Dr | 1813-1848 | Explorer, NSW, QLD | ||
| LEIGH, John Holland | 1936- | Ecologist, grazing research, CSIRO, S.Africa, NSW, ACT | 
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| LEISMAN, Gilbert Arthur. Prof. | 1924- | Botanist, palaeobotanist | 
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| LEMAIRE, Charles | 1800-1871 | Botanical artist, France (did not visit Aust.) | 
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| LENDENFELD, Robert Lendlmayer von, Dr | 1858-1913 | Phycologist, geologist, from Europe, SA, NSW, NZ | ||
| LE PLASTRIER, Constance M. | fl. 1930s | Author, ?botanist | 
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| LEPP, Heino | fl. 1990s- | Herbarium Associate, fungi curator, Aust National Herbarium, Canberra, ACT | ||
| LEPSCHI, Brendan John | 1969- | Herbarium botanist, curator, nomenclature editor, Perth and Canberra, WA, ACT | ||
| LEQUERRE | fl. 1908 | 
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| LESCHENAULT DE LA TOUR, Baptist Louis Theodore | 1773-1826 | Botanist on Baudin's voyages, French | ||
| LE SOUEF, Albert Sherbourne | 1877-1951 | Zoo director, NSW, VIC | 
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| LE SOUEF, William Henry Dudley | 1860-1923 | (Botanical assistant ?) Zoo Director, Melbourne, VIC | ||
| LESSING | fl. 1948 | Botanist | 
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| LESSON, Pierre Adolphe [A.] | 1805-? | Surgeon, botanist | 
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| LESSON, Rene Primevere | 1794-1849 | Naturalist on ship Astrolabe, French | ||
| LESTANG, de | fl. 1940s | 
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| LESTER, George Mackenzie, Archdeacon | 1861-1944 | Anglican clergyman, Brisbane, Rockhampton, QLD | 
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| LESTER, Nita Clare | fl.1990s-2000s | Botanist, ecologist, artist, brigalow, south-east QLD | ||
| LE TALL, Benjamin Bower | 1858-1906 | Botanist, teacher | 
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| LEVI, P. | 
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| LEVITT, Dulcie Carmen* | 1914-1994 | Missionary, ethnobiologist, Groote Eylandt, NT | ||
| LEVRING, Carl Tore Christian [T.] | 1913-1980 | 
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| LEWELLIN, Madeline Mary Ravenna | 1854-1944 | Fungal artist, collected for Mueller in VIC. | 
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| LEWIN, John William | ?1770-1819 | Artist, UK, NSW | 
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| LEWIS, John W. | fl. 1870s | 
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| LEWIS, N.B. | fl. 1950s | 
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| LEWIS, Watkin E. | fl. 1940s | 
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| LEYCESTER, Augustus Adolphus [?A.R.] | -1892 | Farmer, naturalist | 
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| L'HORSCHY | 
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| LHOTSKY, Johann [Jan] | 1795-1866 | Explorer, naturalist, Ukraine, Brazil, NSW | 
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| LIDGETT, James | 1874-1941 | Entomologist | 
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| LIDGEY, Ernest | 1863-?1909 | Geologist, mining engineer, UK, VIC, WA | ||
| LILLEY, Miss | 
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| LIND | fl. 1873-74 | 
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| LINDER, Brita | 
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| LINDLEY, G. | 
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| LINDON, L.H., Mrs | 
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| LINDSAY, Lionel Arthur | 1874-1961 | Artist, engraver, occasionally of eucalypts, VIC | ||
| LINEY, Jennifer Fay, (Jenny) | 1931-2022 | Botanist, Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Garden, NSW | ||
| LISTER, Joseph Jackson | 1857-1927 | Zoologist, Christmas Island expedition leader | 
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| LITTLE, Emma | fl. 2020s | Ecologist, bryologist, University of Tasmania, TAS | ||
| LITTLE, R. | 
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| LITTLEJOHN, Robert | 1756-1818 | Naturalist | 
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| LOADER, Miss | fl.1885 | Collected for Mueller at Wakefield R., SA | 
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| Lobber, Angela | 1966- | Botanical artist, watercolour, NSW | ||
| LOCKWOOD, Leslie | fl.1980s-1990s | Horticulturist, records manager, author, ACT | ||
| LODDER, Mark | fl.1970s | Horticulturalist at ANBG, collected with E.M. Canning, ACT | 
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| LODDER, Mary, Miss | 1853-1911 | Collected algae for Mueller in TAS | 
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| LODDIGES, George | 1784-1846 | Botanical artist, UK | 
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| LODER, Andrew Charles | 1861-?1910 | Assistant Forester | 
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| LODDER, Mark | fl.1970s | Horticulturalist at ANBG, CSIRO, esp. grasses 1970-80s, ACT | 
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| LODER, Mary, Mrs [suggest this is LODDER above] | fl. 1889 | Algae collector | 
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| LOFTHOUSE, Gerry B. | fl.1978 | Horticultural officer, Canberra Botanic Gardens, ACT | 
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| LOGUE, Kate French G. (later Mrs W.J. BLIGHT) | 1867-1968 | Teacher, collected for Mueller in WA | ||
| LOMBE, Thomas Robert, Dr | fl. 1840s | 
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| LONG, F.H. | 
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| LONGMAN | 
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| LONGMAN, Herber Albert | 1880-1954 | 
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| LOOKER, H. Waldo | 
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| LOPEZ, Enguidnos Vinz. | fl. 1790s | Botanical engraver, Spain | 
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| LORD, C. | 
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| LORD, Ernest Edward | 1899-1970 | English-born horticulturist, garden curator, author, VIC | ||
| LORIA, A. | fl. 1830s-40s | 
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| LOTHIAN, Thomas Robert Noel* | 1915-2004 | Gardens Director, author, horticulturist, SA | 
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| LOUDON, Jane Wells | 1807-1858 | Novelist and botanical artist, England, UK | ||
| LOVE, J.H. | fl. 1882 | Forester | 
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| LOVE, J.R.B., Rev. | fl. 1930s | 
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| LOVEGROVE, Gertrude Louisa (married name BLACKET) | 1859-1961 | Botanical artist, joint author with W.Bauerlen, NSW | 
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| LOVIS, John Donald, Prof. | 1930- | Botanist | 
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| LOWE, R. | fl. 1939-69 | 
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| LOWERY, Bede Barlow | 1924-1996 | Catholic priest, teacher, ant collector, NSW, SA, VIC, TAS | ||
| LOWRIE, Allen | 1948-2021 | Businessman, Drosera, Stylidium botanist, WA | ||
| LUCANUS, Augustus | 
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| LUCAS, Arthur Henry Shakespeare, Prof | 1853-1936 | Phycologist, naturalist, mathematician, author, NSW | ||
| LUCAS, Robert | fl. 1887 | Carpenter | 
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| LUCAS, Thomas Pennington, Dr | 1843-1917 | Medical doctor, naturalist, entomologist, collector, UK, VIC, QLD | ||
| LUCAS, W.H. | 
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| LUCHMANN | 
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| LUDBROOK, N.H., Dr | fl. 1960s | Geologist, paleobotonist | 
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| LUEHMANN, Johann Georg W. | 1843-1904 | Government Botanist, writer, VIC | ||
| LUERSSEN, C. [?Christian] | 1843-? | 
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| LUGERT | 
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| LUKE, George | fl.1960-1990s | Scottish forester, Aust from 1960, QLD | 
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| LUKE, Robert Henry | 1909- | Forester, fire authority, NSW | 
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| LUKIN, Laura (later Mrs Phillips) | 1857-1933 | Collected for Mueller in WA | 
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| LULLFITZ, Frederick Conrad James | 1914-1983 | Seed collector for Kings Park Botanic Gdns, consultant, WA | 
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| LUMHOLTZ, Carl Sophus | 1851-1922 | Norwegian scientist, anthropologist, traveller, author, Aust.1880-1884, QLD | ||
| LUMLEY, Peter F. | 1938- | Herbarium botanist, horticultural botanist, Vict. | 
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| LYALL, David, Dr | 1817-1895 | Surgeon | 
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| LYCETT, Joseph | ?1774-?1825 | Convict, artist, NSW | 
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| LYELL, George | 1866-1951 | Entomologist, orchidologist, VIC | ||
| LYNCH | fl. 1904-13 | 
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| LYND, B. | 
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| LYND, Robert [Lieutenant] | 1800-1851 | Naturalist, fungal collector, NSW | 
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| LYNE, Andrew M. | fl. 1990s | Herbarium technician, collector, Aust National Herbarium, Canberra, ACT | ||
| LYNDON, S. | before 1898 | 
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| LYONS, Robert (Bob) G. | fl.1970s | National Parks director, forests dept, SA | 
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Surnames (Family names) starting with: 
  A     B     C 
      D     E     F 
      G     H     I 
      J     K     L 
      M     N     O 
      P-Q     R     S 
      T     U-V     W 
      X-Y-Z 
* = information contributed by the collector/illustrator themselves (to Willis et al) pre 1986
^^ = information from: George, A.S. (2009) Australian Botanist's Companion, Four Gables Press, WA.
 
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