{{Short description|Australian botanist}} {{use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Barry John Conn | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 1948 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | education = | fields = Botany<br>Plant Systematics<br> Lamiaceae<br> Urticaceae<br> Loganiaceae | title = | spouse = | parents = | workplaces= | author_abbrev_bot = B.J.Conn | thesis_title = A taxonomic revision of Prostanthera Labill. section Klanderia (F.v. Muell.) Benth. (Labiatae) | thesis_url =https://adelaide.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=ALMA21123231510001811&context=L&vid=SUA_NEW&lang=en_US&search_scope=Everything&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=default_tab&query=creator,contains,Barry%20John%20Conn,AND&mode=advanced&offset=0 | thesis_year = 1982 }} {{Scholia|author}} '''Barry John Conn''', born 1948, is an Australian botanist.<ref name=IPNI/> He was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Adelaide in 1982 for work on ''Prostanthera''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://adelaide.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=ALMA21123231510001811&context=L&vid=SUA_NEW&lang=en_US&search_scope=Everything&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=default_tab&query=creator,contains,Barry%20John%20Conn,AND&mode=advanced&offset=0|title=A taxonomic revision of Prostanthera Labill. section Klanderia (F.v. Muell.) Benth. (Labiatae)|last=Conn, B.J.|date=1982|website=adelaide.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com|access-date=2019-10-30}}</ref>
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== Career == 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.<ref name="Telopea" />
==Some published names==
*''Acacia aureocrinita'' B.J.Conn & Tame, Austral. Syst. Bot. 9(6): 851 (1996) (1996). *''Acacia cremiflora'' B.J.Conn & Tame, Austral. Syst. Bot. 9(6): 853 (1996) (1996). *''Actephila forsteri'' B.J.Conn, Telopea 20: 11 (2017). *''Dasymalla chorisepala'' (Munir) B.J.Conn & Henwood, Austral. Syst. Bot. 24(1): 6 (2011). *''Drosera hookeri'' R.P.Gibson, B.J.Conn & Conran, J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 24: 41 (2010). *''Mentha atrolilacina'' B.J.Conn & D.J.Duval, Telopea 12(4): 521 (2010)
See IPNI.<ref name=IPNI/><br>(Some 174 species listed, not all currently accepted)
== Plants named in his honour == *''Prostanthera conniana'' (and in honour of his wife)<ref name="Telopea">{{cite journal |last1=Wilson |first1=Trevor C. |last2=Elkan |first2=Lesley |last3=Henwood |first3=Murray J. |last4=Murray |first4=Louisa |last5=Renner |first5=Matt A.M. |last6=Wardrop |first6=Catherine |title=''Prostanthera conniana'' (Lamiaceae, Westringieae), a new species from the Southern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia |journal=Telopea |date=2015 |volume=18 |pages=519–526 |doi=10.7751/telopea8882 |url=https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/emuwebnswlive/objects/common/webmedia.php?irn=83740&reftable=ebibliography}}</ref>
== Publications == (incomplete)
===Books=== *{{cite book|title=Handbooks of the flora of Papua New Guinea(Vol I)|publisher=Melbourne University Press|location=Melbourne|date=1978|editor1=Womersley, J.S.|editor2=Henty, E.E.|editor3=Conn, B.J.}} *{{cite book|title=Handbooks of the flora of Papua New Guinea (Vol II)|publisher=Melbourne University Press|location=Melbourne|date=1981|editor2=Womersley, J.S.|editor1=Henty, E.E.|editor3=Conn, B.J.}} *{{cite book|title=Handbooks of the flora of Papua New Guinea (Vol III)|publisher=Melbourne University Press|location=Melbourne|date=1995|editor1=Conn, B.J.}}
===Articles=== *{{cite journal|last1=Conn|first1=B. J.|last2=Streiber|first2=N.|last3=Brown|first3=E. A.|last4=Henwood|first4=M. J.|last5=Olmstead|first5=R. G.|title=Infrageneric phylogeny of Chloantheae (Lamiaceae) based on chloroplast ndhF and nuclear ITS sequence data|journal=Australian Systematic Botany|volume=22|issue=4|year=2009|pages=243 |doi=10.1071/SB09011}} *{{cite journal |doi=10.7751/telopea20105843|title=Mentha atrolilacina (Lamiaceae), a new species from South Australia|journal=Telopea|pages=521–524|year=2010|last1=Conn|first1=Barry|last2=Duval|first2=David|doi-access=free}} *{{cite journal | author = Conn, Barry J. | year = 1998 | title = Contributions to the systematics of ''Prostanthera'' (Labiatae) in south-eastern Australia | journal = Telopea | volume = 7 | issue = 4 | pages = 319–332 | doi = 10.7751/telopea19982003 | doi-access = free }} *{{cite journal|title=A new species of Saurauia (Actinidiaceae) from Papua New Guinea|journal=Telopea|volume=15|pages=9–12|author=Conn, B.J.|date=2013|doi=10.7751/telopea2013003|doi-access=free}} *{{cite journal |jstor = 23873911|title = A taxonomic revision of Prostanthera Labill. section Klanderia (F.v. Muell.) Benth.(Labiatae)|journal = Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens|volume = 6|issue = 3|pages = 207–348|last1 = Conn|first1 = Barry J.|year = 1984}} *{{cite journal |last=Conn |first=B. J. |year=1980 |url=https://www.narcis.nl/publication/RecordID/oai:naturalis.nl:525473 |title=A taxonomic revision of Geniostoma subg. Geniostoma (Loganiaceae) |journal=Blumea - Biodiversity, Evolution and Biogeography of Plants |volume=26 |issue=2 |pages=245–364}} *{{cite journal|last1=Hadiah|first1=Julisasi T.|last2=Conn|first2=Barry J.|last3=Quinn|first3=Christopher J.|title=Infra-familial phylogeny of Urticaceae, using chloroplast sequence data|journal=Australian Systematic Botany|volume=21|issue=5|year=2008|pages=375 |doi=10.1071/SB08041}} [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Barry_Conn/publication/240509795_Infra-familial_phylogeny_of_Urticaceae_using_chloroplast_sequence_data/links/5541c8170cf2b790436be65a.pdf pdf] *{{cite journal|url=https://data.environment.sa.gov.au/Content/Publications/JABG03P091_Conn.pdf|journal=Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=91–100|date=1981| author=Conn, B.J.|title=THE DROSERA PELTATA -D. AURICULATA COMPLEX}} *{{cite journal|url=https://data.environment.sa.gov.au/Content/Publications/JABG24P039_Gibson.pdf|title=Drosera hookeri R.P.Gibson, B.J.Conn & Conran, a replacement name for Drosera foliosa Hook.f. ex Planch., nom. illeg. (Droseraceae)|author1=Gibson, R.P. |author2=Conn, B.J.|author3=Conran, J.G.|journal=Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden |volume=24 |pages=39–42|date=2010}}
== References == <references>
<ref name=IPNI>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ipni.org/a/13263-1|title=International Plant Names Index: Barry John Conn|website=www.ipni.org|access-date=2019-10-30}}</ref>
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