{{Short description|Australian botanist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox person/Wikidata | fetchwikidata=ALL | dateformat = dmy|suppressfields=birth_date spouse children }} '''Alison Kellow''' is a botanist and research scientist from Australia, and a lecturer at La Trobe University.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nhbs.com/an-illustrated-guide-to-new-zealand-hebes-book|title=An Illustrated Guide to New Zealand Hebes|website=www.nhbs.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-10-03}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> As of 2023, she is curator of the La Trobe University Herbarium.<ref>{{cite web |title=Herbarium |url=https://www.latrobe.edu.au/department-of-environment-and-genetics/about-us/facilities/herbarium |publisher=La Trobe University |access-date=10 December 2023 |language=en-AU}}</ref>
Kellow completed a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Melbourne, and postgraduate studies in environmental science at Monash University. She completed her doctoral degree in Natural Resource Sciences at the University of Adelaide.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.latrobe.edu.au/she/staff/profile?uname=akellow|title=Staff profile|last=University|first=La Trobe|website=www.latrobe.edu.au|language=en|access-date=2017-10-03}}</ref>
Kellow is the joint author, with Michael Bayly, of ''An Illustrated Guide to New Zealand Hebes''''',''' which was a finalist in the 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10443112|title=Posthumous nominations for authors in Montana book awards|date=2007-06-01|work=NZ Herald|access-date=2017-10-03|language=en-NZ|issn=1170-0777}}</ref> The pair worked on the project while both were researchers for the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.<ref name=":0" /> Kellow also held a position at Industrial Research Ltd, working on flavonoid chemistry.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rnzih.org.nz/pages/hebe.htm|title=RNZIH - Horticulture Pages - Hebe|website=www.rnzih.org.nz|access-date=2017-10-03}}</ref>
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== Eponym == ''Veronica kellowiae'' was named in Kellow's honour by Phil Garnock-Jones, in 2007.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Garnock-Jones |first1=Phil |last2=Albach |first2=Dirk |last3=Briggs |first3=Barbara G. |date=2007 |title=Botanical names in Southern Hemisphere Veronica (Plantaginaceae): sect. Detzneria, sect. Hebe, and sect. Labiatoides |journal=Taxon |volume=56 |issue=2 |pages=571–582|doi=10.1002/tax.562028 |bibcode=2007Taxon..56..571G }}</ref>
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