{{short description|Australian botanist and author}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox scientist |name = Gwen Harden | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100|OAM}} |image = |image_size =150px |caption = |birth_date = 1940 |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |residence = |citizenship = Australian |ethnicity = |field = botany |work_institutions = |alma_mater = |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = Botanist |author_abbrev_bot = G.J.Harden |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = |religion = |footnotes = 4-volume ''Flora of New South Wales'' |signature = }} '''Gwenneth Jean Harden''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|OAM}} (born 1940) is an Australian botanist and author.
In 1990 the first of her four volumes of the ''Flora of New South Wales'' was published.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Harden, G. J. (Gwenneth Jean) | title=Flora of New South Wales | date=1990 | publisher=NSW University Press | isbn=978-0-86840-188-1 }}</ref> The four-volume set was fully revised in 2000.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Harden, G. J. (Gwenneth Jean) | title=Flora of New South Wales | date=2000 | publisher=Kensington, N.S.W. UNSW University Press | edition=Rev. | isbn=978-0-86840-188-1 }}</ref>
The nightcap oak (''Eidothea hardeniana'') is named in her honour.<ref name="plantnet">{{cite web|author = |title=Eidothea hardeniana|url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eidothea~hardeniana|work=PlantNet -New South Wales Flora Online|publisher=|access-date=May 7, 2020}}</ref><ref name="ipni">{{cite web|author = |title=Harden, Gwenneth J. (1940-) |url=https://www.ipni.org/a/39281-1|work=International Plant Name Index|publisher=|access-date=May 7, 2020}}</ref>
Harden was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2004 Australia Day Honours for her "service to botany as a researcher, publisher, conservationist and educator".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mrs Gwenneth Jean HARDEN |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1056250 |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=Australian Honours Search Facility}}</ref>
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