Dr. Mark Alwin Clements | |
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Born | 1949 (age 74–75) |
Nationality | Australian |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Botany |
Author abbrev. (botany) | M.A.Clem. |
Mark Alwin Clements (b. 1949) is an Australian botanist and orchidologist. He obtained his doctorate at the Australian National University[1] defending his thesis entitled Reproductive Biology in relation to phylogeny of the Orchidaceae, especially the tribe Diurideae.[2]
In 2008 he was a researcher at the Center for Research on Plant Biodiversity at the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra.[3] As of January 2012, it had identified and classified 1,992 new species.