Roger Charles Carolin

Australian botanist (1929 - 2025).

Roger Charles Carolin (15 October 1929 – 3 February 2025) was an Australian botanist and pteridologist. He was appointed a lecturer in botany at the University of Sydney in 1955, earned a Ph.D. from there in 1962 with a thesis on the floral morphology of the campanales, and retired as an associate professor at the university in 1989. Much of his research focused on the Campanulales, in particular the families Brunoniaceae and Goodeniaceae. He co-authored the Flora of the Sydney Region (various editions: 1972–1993), and served on the editorial committees for the Flora of Central Australia and

Abbreviations: Carolin
Occupations: university teacher, botanist, naturalist, botanical collector
Citizenships: Australia
Languages: English
Dates: 1929-10-15T00:00:00Z – 2025-02-03T00:00:00Z
Birth place: London
Direct attributions: 206 plants, 0 fungi
Authorship mentions: 235 plants, 0 fungi

206 plants attributed, 29 plants contributed to235 plants:

Schreiteria macrocarpa (Speg.) Carolin 1985
plant species in the montiaceae family
Schreiteria is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Montiaceae. It is represented by the single species of Schreiteria macrocarpa (Speg.) Carolin. It is native to north-western Argentina.
Geranium solanderi (Solander's Geranium) Carolin 1965
perennial plant species in the geraniaceae family
Geranium solanderi (common names - native geranium, Australian cranesbill, Austral cranesbill, Cut-leaf cranesbill, native carrot, and hairy geranium) is a species of plant in the family Geraniaceae. It is native to Australia (New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania), and to New Zealand. It was first described in 1800 by Daniel Solander as Geranium pilosum, from a specimen found in New Zealand. However, the name was illegal (having already been used in 1787 by Antonio José Cavanilles) and it was renamed in 1965 by Roger Charles Carolin, with the
Coopernookia (Coopernookias) Carolin 1968
plant genus in the goodeniaceae family
Coopernookia is a plant genus of six species of small perennial shrubs that are all endemic to Australia. They have hairy, often sticky leaves, and flowers with bilateral symmetry.
Goodenia berardiana (Gaudich.) Carolin 1979
annual plant species in the goodeniaceae family
Goodenia berardiana is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is an erect, widely distributed and variable annual herb with linear to egg-shaped, sometimes lobed or toothed leaves, and yellow flowers arranged in leafy racemes or few-flowered umbels.
Erodium crinitum (Eastern Stork's-bill) Carolin 1958
annual plant species in the geraniaceae family
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Erodium aureum Carolin 1958
plant species in the geraniaceae family
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Scaevola globosa (Carolin) Carolin 1990
plant species in the goodeniaceae family
Scaevola globosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It is a small, spreading shrub with fan-shaped yellow flowers and elliptic to egg-shaped leaves.
Scaevola glabrata Carolin 1986
plant species in the goodeniaceae family
Scaevola glabrata is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It is a small, spreading shrub with fan-shaped blue flowers and elliptic to egg-shaped leaves.
Scaevola basedowii Carolin 1980
plant species in the goodeniaceae family
Scaevola basedowii, commonly known as Basedow's fanflower and as akwen-akwene or kwenpaye in the Kaytetye language, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to inland areas of Australia. It is a stiff, erect perennial herb with many stems, sessile, narrowly elliptic leaves at the base of the plant and more or less triangular stem leaves, pale mauve or white flowers with darker lines, and ribbed, hairy, spherical to elliptic fruit.
Scaevola angustata Carolin 1986
plant species in the goodeniaceae family
Scaevola angustata is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Goodeniaceae. It has pale blue to purple flowers and is endemic to South Australia.
Goodenia triodiophila Carolin 1980
perennial plant species in the goodeniaceae family
Goodenia triodiophila, commonly known as spinifex goodenia in the Northern Territory, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to arid inland areas of Central Australia. It is a stiff, wiry, much-branched, ascending perennial herb with needle-shaped or linear leaves on the stems and racemes of yellow flowers with a brownish centre.
Goodenia pilosa (R.Br.) Carolin 1990
annual plant species in the goodeniaceae family
Goodenia pilosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is native to northern Australia and to parts of Asia. It is a prostrate to low-lying herb with erect hairs, narrow oblong to narrow elliptic leaves at the base of the plant and racemes of yellow flowers with a purplish base.
Goodenia helmsii (E.Pritz.) Carolin 1990
plant species in the goodeniaceae family
Goodenia helmsii is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to inland parts of the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect or ascending shrub with cylindrical stem leaves and spikes of white flowers with purplish spots.
Goodenia gibbosa Carolin 1980
perennial plant species in the goodeniaceae family
Goodenia gibbosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to central Australia. It is a prostrate to low-lying, often stoloniferous herb covered with soft hairs. It has elliptic to lance-shaped leaves and small groups of yellow flowers.
Goodenia convexa Carolin 1990
perennial plant species in the goodeniaceae family
Goodenia convexa is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a low-lying herb with egg-shaped to lance-shaped, usually toothed leaves mostly at the base of the plant, and racemes of yellow flowers.
Geranium obtusisepalum Carolin 1965
perennial plant species in the geraniaceae family
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Geranium neglectum Carolin 1965
perennial plant species in the geraniaceae family
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Geranium antrorsum (Rosetted Crane's-bill) Carolin 1965
perennial plant species in the geraniaceae family
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Erodium angustilobum Carolin 1970
plant species in the geraniaceae family
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Dampiera dysantha (Shrubby Dampiera) (Benth.) Rajput & Carolin 1986
perennial plant species in the goodeniaceae family
Dampiera dysantha, the shrubby dampiera, is an undershrub in the family Goodeniaceae. The species grows to 70 cm high The flowers are blue, or occasionally white to lilac and are covered on the outside with grey and rusty hairs. These generally appear between September and October in its native range. The species was first formally described as a variety of Dampiera rosmarinifolia by English botanist George Bentham in Flora Australiensis in 1868.
Coopernookia strophiolata (F.Muell.) Carolin 1968
plant species in the goodeniaceae family
Coopernookia strophiolata is a shrub in the Goodeniaceae family, endemic to Australia and found in both Western Australia and South Australia.
Wahlenbergia graniticola (Tufted Bluebell) Carolin 1965
perennial plant species in the campanulaceae family
Wahlenbergia graniticola, commonly known as the granite bluebell, is a herbaceous plant in the family Campanulaceae native to eastern Australia. The tufted perennial herb typically grows to a height of 0.07 to 0.95 metres (0 to 3 ft). It blooms throughout the year producing blue flowers. The species is found in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria.
Scaevola virgata Carolin 1990
plant species in the goodeniaceae family
Scaevola virgata is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It is a perennial, much-branched, small shrub has white to blue flowers and endemic to Western Australia.
Scaevola tenuifolia Carolin 1990
plant species in the goodeniaceae family
Scaevola tenuifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It is a prostrate herb with white to blue flowers and endemic to Western Australia.
Scaevola spicigera Carolin 1990
plant species in the goodeniaceae family
Scaevola spicigera is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It is a small, spreading shrub with white flowers and is endemic to Western Australia.
Scaevola pulchella Carolin 1990
plant species in the goodeniaceae family
Scaevola pulchella is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It is a small, spreading shrub with blue to mauve flowers borne on terminal spikes and is endemic to Western Australia.
Scaevola parvibarbata (Small-beard Fanflower) Carolin 1986
plant species in the goodeniaceae family
Scaevola parvibarbata is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It is an upright herb with fan-shaped mauve or greenish flowers and grows in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and the Northern Territory.
Scaevola eneabba Carolin 1990
plant species in the goodeniaceae family
Scaevola eneabba is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It is a small, spreading shrub with fan-shaped white to pink flowers and is endemic to Western Australia.
Scaevola densifolia Carolin 1990
plant species in the goodeniaceae family
Scaevola densifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It is a small, spreading shrub with fan-shaped cream or white flowers and is endemic to Western Australia.
Scaevola chrysopogon Carolin 1990
plant species in the goodeniaceae family
Scaevola chrysopogon is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It is a small, understorey shrub with fan-shaped cream or white flowers and is endemic to Western Australia.
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