{{Short description|Australian botanist and orchidologist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = Dr. | name = Mark Alwin Clements | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = <!--(filename only, i.e. without "File:" prefix)--> | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1949}} | birth_place = | death_date = <!--{{death date and age |YYYY|MM|DD |YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date)--> | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!--{{coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline,title}}--> | other_names = | residence = | citizenship = | fields = Botany | workplaces = | patrons = | education = | alma_mater = | thesis_title = <!--(or | thesis1_title = and | thesis2_title = )--> | thesis_url = <!--(or | thesis1_url = and | thesis2_url = )--> | thesis_year = <!--(or | thesis1_year = and | thesis2_year = )--> | doctoral_advisor = <!--(or | doctoral_advisors = )--> | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | author_abbrev_bot = M.A.Clem. | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse = <!--(or | spouses = )--> | partner = <!--(or | partners = )--> | children = | signature = <!--(filename only)--> | signature_alt = | website = <!--{{URL|www.example.com}}--> | footnotes = }} '''Mark Alwin Clements''' ({{born in|1949}}) is an Australian [[botanist]] and [[orchidologist]]. He obtained his doctorate at the [[Australian National University]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/staff/clements_staff.html |title=Mark Clements |publisher=Center for Australian National Biodiversity Research |access-date=27 June 2017 }}</ref> defending his thesis ''Reproductive Biology in Relation to Phylogeny of the Orchidaceae, Especially the Tribe Diurideae''.<ref name="RSNSW">{{cite journal|title=Student theses abstracts in Volumes 123-132|journal=Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales|date=1996|volume=129|pages=83–84|url=http://nsw.royalsoc.org.au/journal_archive/theses96.html|access-date=26 June 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527143300/http://nsw.royalsoc.org.au/journal_archive/theses96.html#clements|archive-date=27 May 2011}}</ref>
In 2008, Clements was a researcher at the Center for Research on Plant Biodiversity at the [[Australian National Botanic Gardens]] in [[Canberra]].<ref>{{cite journal | last1=Indsto |first1=James O. |last2=Weston |first2=Peter H. |last3=Clements |first3=Mark A. |last4=Dyer |first4=Adrian G. |last5=Batley |first5=Michael |last6=Whelan |first6=Robert J. |date=2006 |title=Pollination of Diuris maculata (Orchidaceae) by male Trichocolletes venustus bees |journal=Australian Journal of Botany |volume=54 |pages=669–679 |doi=10.1071/BT05146 }}</ref> As of January 2012, it had identified and classified 1,992 new species.
== Publications == * {{cite journal |last1=Weston |first1=P.H. |last2=Clements |first2=M.A. |last3=Dyer |first3=A.G. |last4=Batley |first4=M |last5=Whelan |first5=R.J. |last6=Indsto |first6=J.O. |date=2007 |title=Generalised pollination of ''Diuris alba'' (Orchidaceae) by small bees and wasps |journal=Australian Journal of Botany |volume=55 |pages=628 }} * Indsto, JO; Weston PH; Clements MA; Dyer AG; Batley M; Whelan RJ. 2006. [http://www.publish.csiro.au/?paper=BT05146 ''Pollination of ''Diuris maculata'' (Orchidaceae) by male ''Trichocolletes venustus'' bees'']. Australian Journal of Botany 54 (7): 669 * MA Clements. 2006. [http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=18269740 ''Molecular phylogenetic systematics in Dendrobieae (Orchidaceae)'']. Aliso 22: 465—480 * Indsto, JO; PH Weston; MA Clements; RJ Whelan. 2005. ''Highly sensitive DNA fingerprinting of orchid pollinaria remnants using AFLP''. Australian Systematic Botany 18 (3): 207 - 213 * MA Clements. 2003. [http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/72723/Tel10Cle247.pdf ''Molecular phylogenetic systematics in the Dendrobiinae (Orchidaceae), with emphasis on Dendrobium section Pedilonum''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110329190821/http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/72723/Tel10Cle247.pdf |date=29 March 2011 }}. Telopea 10: 247—298 * Jones, DL; MA Clement. 2002. ''A Review of Pterestylis (orchidaceae).'' Ed. Australian Orchid Foundation. {{ISBN|0-642-54904-4}}
== Honours == * ([[Orchidaceae]]) ''[[Flickingeria]] clementsii'' [[David L. Jones (botanist)|D.L.Jones]]<ref>Orchadian 14(8: Scientific Suppl.): ix (-x) 2004</ref> * (Orchidaceae) ''[[Microtatorchis]] clementsii'' D.L.Jones and [[Bruce Gray|B.Gray]]<ref>Orchadian 15(5): 201 (200-202; fig.) 2006</ref>
{{botanist|M.A.Clem.|Mark Alwin Clements}}
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== External links == * {{IPNI author|id=17309-1}} * [https://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/staff/clements_staff.html Mark Clements] at the Center for Australian National Biodiversity Research
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