Joy Thompson (born Joy Gardiner-Garden, 1923, died 2018) was an Australian botanist. Her main research areas were
taxonomy and
Myrtaceae.
Life and career
Thompson's university studies occurred during the second world war and in university vacations she worked in the Land Army near Maitland. She graduated in 1946 with a B.Sc. (Agric) from the
University of Sydney, and went to work at the New South Wales Herbarium (then a part of the NSW department of Agriculture).[2] She was Honorary Secretary of the Systematic Botany Committee of ANZAAS from 1952 to 1954.[2]
In 1956 she married Max Thompson and, as a public servant, resigned from her position as was required at the time. Ten years later, after the birth of her two children, she returned to work at the Herbarium, in a part-time position.[2] On her retirement in 1982, she became an Honorary Research Associate,[3][1] and until 2009, continued to work in this role, making the 2.5 hour train journey from Mittagong once a week.[2]
1983. Redefinitions and nomenclatural changes within the Leptospermum suballiance of Myrtaceae. Telopea 2(4): 379-383
1981. A key to the plants of the subalpine and alpine zones of the Kosciusko region. Telopea 2(3): 219-297
1981. (with Max Gray)A check-list of the subalpine and alpine species found in the Kosciusko region of New South Wales. Telopea 2(3): 299-346
1976. A Revision of the Genus
Tetratheca (Tremandraceae). Telopea 1(3): 139-215
Books
1993. A Revision of the Genus
Swainsona (Fabaceae). Telopea (Sydney) 5 (3): 156 pp.
1986. A Revision of the Genus Leptospermum: Including a Discussion of the Variation Contained Within the Genus and Its Probable Significance as Indicating the Origin, Subsequent Evolution and Spread of the Group. Editor Univ. of Sydney, 678 pp.
1978. Polygalaceae. Flora of New South Wales 112: 118 pp.
1961. Papilionaceae. Flora of New South Wales 101: 91 pp.
^Conn, BJ; Richards, PG (1994). "A new species of Oxalis section Corniculatae (Oxalidaceae) from Australasia". Australian Systematic Botany. 7 (2): 171.
doi:
10.1071/SB9940171.
ISSN1030-1887.