John Maconochie

Australian botanist (1941-1984).

John Richard Maconochie (13 June 1941 — 24 January 1984) was a botanist from Australia. He collected Acacia. Maconochie was born in Adelaide. He was in charge of the herbarium in Alice Springs from 1967 until 1984. He helped establish the National Herbarium of Oman. Plant specimens he collected are also at the Northern Territory Herbarium. Cycas maconochiei is named for him and Maconochie Road in the Desert Springs suburb of Alice Springs was gazetted 17 September 1987 and dedicated to "the town's longest serving botanist". He died in a traffic accident in Somalia.

Abbreviations: Maconochie
Occupations: scientific collector, botanist, botanical collector
Citizenships: Australia
Dates: 1941-06-13T00:00:00Z – 1984-01-24T00:00:00Z
Birth place: Adelaide
Direct attributions: 20 plants, 0 fungi
Authorship mentions: 20 plants, 0 fungi
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20 plants attributed to20 plants:

Acacia olgana Maconochie 1978
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia olgana, commonly known as Kata Tjuta wattle or Mount Olga wattle, is a shrub or tree in the genus Acacia that is found in central Australia.
Acacia ayersiana Maconochie 1978
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia ayersiana, commonly known as Ayers Rock mulga, broad-leaf mulga, Uluru mulga, or blue mulga, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to arid areas of inland Australia. It is a rounded or conical shrub with the narrower end towards the base or a singe-stemmed tree, its phyllodes narrowly elliptic to lance-shaped, the flowers yellow and arranged in cylindrical spikes, and papery pods up to 40 mm (1.6 in) long on a short stalk.
Cycas calcicola (Cycad) Maconochie 1978
vulnerable plant species in the cycadaceae family
Cycas calcicola is a species of cycad in the genus Cycas, native to northern Australia in the northwest of Northern Territory. The stems are erect, 2–5 m tall and 16–22 cm diameter. The leaves are variably deep green and glabrous to white tomentose above, and persistently white tomentose below, 60–130 cm long, pinnate, with 210-410 leaflets. The leaflets are 5–12 cm long and 2–4 mm wide, and lie flat either side of the leaf stem (not in a 'v'-shape like most other Cycas species). The petioles are 18–30 cm long, and armed with sharp spines at the base. The female cones are open, with
Cycas pruinosa Maconochie 1978
plant species in the cycadaceae family
Cycas pruinosa is a small to medium species of cycad, a palm-like seed plant. It is a widespread but sporadic species in the eastern and southern Kimberley region of Western Australia, occurring also in the Spirit Hills on Bullo River Station in the Northern Territory.
Acacia multisiliqua (Benth.) Maconochie 1978
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia multisiliqua is a shrub or tree of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves that is endemic to northern Australia.
Acacia macdonnelliensis (Acacia Macdonnellensis) Maconochie 1978
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia macdonnelliensis, commonly known as the MacDonnell mulga or the Hill mulga, is a species of Acacia native to central Australia. The Indigenous Australians the Alyawarr peoples know the plant as irrar, the Kaytetye know it as arleth-arlethe or arwele arleth-arlethe and the Western Arrernte peoples know it as irrkwarteke.
Acacia jasperensis Maconochie 1983
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia jasperensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the north of Australia. It is an erect, slender shrub or tree with erect, thread-like phyllodes, spherical heads of yellow flowers and flat, papery pods rounded over the seeds.
Acacia ammobia (Mount Conner Wattle) Maconochie 1978
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia ammobia, commonly known as the Mount Connor wattle, or Mount Conner wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to areas near the border between South Australia and the Northern Territory. It is a shrub or small tree with linear phyllodes, flowers arranged in 1 or 2 spikes on side shoots, each spike with densely crowded yellow flowers. The fruit is a linear pods 55–110 mm (2.2–4.3 in) long with dar brown seeds.
Tephrosia arenicola Maconochie 1980
plant species in the fabaceae family
Tephrosia arenicola is a plant in the Fabaceae family, native to the north of Western Australia. The species has no synonyms.
Indigofera ammobia Maconochie 1980
perennial plant species in the fabaceae family
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Hakea standleyensis Maconochie 1973
vulnerable plant species in the proteaceae family
Hakea standleyensis is a small flowering shrub in the family Proteaceae. It has white flowers, needle-shaped leaves and a twisted growth habit. It grows on cliff ledges in the Northern Territory, Australia.
Hakea minyma Maconochie 1973
plant species in the proteaceae family
Hakea minyma, commonly known as watjula, is a species of shrub that is endemic to Australia. It has long, flat leaves, fragrant pink or white flower from late winter to spring.
Isotropis centralis Maconochie 1980
plant species in the fabaceae family
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Trachymene rotundifolia (Benth.) Maconochie 1980
plant species in the araliaceae family
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Trachymene psammophila Maconochie 1980
plant species in the araliaceae family
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Trachymene longipedunculata Maconochie 1980
plant species in the araliaceae family
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Trachymene inflata Maconochie 1980
plant species in the araliaceae family
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Trachymene dendrothrix Maconochie 1980
plant species in the araliaceae family
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Acacia macdonnellensis ssp. macdonnellensis Maconochie 1987
plant subspecies in the fabaceae family
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Acacia macdonnellensis Maconochie 1978
plant species in the fabaceae family
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