Alma_Theodora_Lee
Alma Theodora Lee
Australian botanist
Alma Theodora Lee (née Melvaine; 12 April 1912 — 20 October 1990) was an Australian botanist and plant taxonomist who worked at the National Herbarium of New South Wales, University of Sydney, and CSIRO.[1] She is notable for raising the standard of systematic botany in Australia, and for her revisions of Swainsona and Typha. She also studied the Fabaceae with colleagues.[2][3] The standard author abbreviation A.T.Lee is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[4][5][6] She described over 40 species.[7] The March 1991 issue of the journal Telopea was dedicated to her memory.[1]