Barbara G. Briggs
Encyclopedia
Barbara Gillian Briggs is one of the foremost Australian botanists. The IK
lists 205 names of plants which have been published or co-published by her. She was one of the botanists in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group
, of the 1998 APG system
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Since her retirement she continues as an Honorary Research Associate at the Sydney Botanical Gardens.
Index Kewensis
The Index Kewensis , maintained by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is a publication that aims to register all botanical names for seed plants at the rank of species and genera...
lists 205 names of plants which have been published or co-published by her. She was one of the botanists in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group
The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, or APG, refers to an informal international group of systematic botanists who came together to try to establish a consensus on the taxonomy of flowering plants that would reflect new knowledge about plant relationships discovered through phylogenetic studies., three...
, of the 1998 APG system
APG system
The APG system of plant classification is the first, now obsolete, version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy that was published in 1998 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. It was superseded in 2003 by a revision, the APG II system, and then in 2009 by a further...
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Since her retirement she continues as an Honorary Research Associate at the Sydney Botanical Gardens.