Australian botanist (1911-1993).
Gwenda Louise Davis (1911–1993) was an Australian botanist. She is known for her work on embryology, in particular, for work on the embryology of Australian Asteraceae and the genus Eucalyptus. She started her career as a plant taxonomist in 1945 at the New England University College at Armidale (now the University of New England, and was largely responsible for the creation of the Department of Botany there. After a fire in 1958, which destroyed the building housing the Botany Department, she concentrated her research on plant embryology. The standard author abbreviation G.L.Davis is used t