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Born in 1944 in Hobart, Tasmania;
She was an Australian botanist, taxonomist, illustrator, and ecologist at the Plant Biodiversity Center at CSIRO in Canberra.
Her main works focus around the systematics of the family Sterculiaceae, and the conservation biology of forest and grassland ecosystems.
She also worked for the State of Western Australia, in the Department of Conservation and Land Management, and in biodiversity at the Global Biodiversity Infrastructure Facility.
In 1982 she produced a report 'Guide to the gazetted rare flora of Western Australia'.
She is listed as a significant botanical illustrator for WA in 'A Botanical Journey, The Story of the Western Australian Herbarium' (2011) p.175.
Source: Extracted from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_J._Patrick
R.Underwood, 'A Botanical Journey, The Story of the Western Australian Herbarium' (2011) p.221
Portrait Photo: 2001, M.Fagg.
Data from 1,179 specimens