Donald Frederick Blaxell OAM (born 1 February 1934, Sydney, New South Wales), is an Australian botanist, botanical collector and taxonomist.[1]
Blaxell worked at the University of New South Wales for 11 years and joined the New south Wales Herbarium in 1968. He was particularly interested in plants from family Orchidaceae and the genus Eucalyptus. He worked extensively with Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson through the 1960s completing descriptions of many species. He was also an avid collector, particularly Eucalyptus species, usually with Johnson or L D. Pryor.[2]
Blaxell was appointed as the Australian Botanical Liaison Officer at Kew Gardens between 1974 and 1975.[2] In 2001, he was awarded an OAM in the Australia Day honours.[3] Eucalyptus blaxellii was named in his honour by L.A.S.Johnson & K.D. Hill in 1992.[1]