Marco Duretto (born 1964) is a manager and senior research scientist at the

Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney is a heritage-listed major botanical garden, event venue and public recreation area located at Farm Cove, New South Wales, Farm Cove on the eastern fringe of the Sydney central business district, in the City of ...

in Australia. His primary research interests are systematics and conservation of Rutaceae, Rubiaceae, Orchidaceae, Stylidiaceae and evolution of Australasian flora. Duretto's projects have included "Phylogeny and biogeography of '' Boronia'' (Rutaceae)", "Mutual pollination system involving ''Boronia'' (Rutaceae) and moths of the Heliozelidae", "A molecular and morphological phylogeny of the ''

Phebalium ''Phebalium'' is a genus of thirty species of shrubs or small trees in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to Australia. The leaves are arranged alternately, simple and often warty, the flowers arranged singly or in umbels on the ends of bran ...

'' Group (Rutaceae)", and "East coast species limits in ''

Stylidium ''Stylidium'' (also known as triggerplants or trigger plants) is a genus of dicotyledonous plants that belong to the family Stylidiaceae. The genus name ''Stylidium'' is derived from the Greek ''στύλος'' or ''stylos'' (column or pillar), wh ...

''". Marco Duretto was previously a research scientist with the University of Tasmania.

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Asterolasia exasperata ''Asterolasia'' is a genus of seventeen species of erect or prostrate shrubs in the family Rutaceae, and is endemic to Australia. The leaves are simple and arranged alternately, the flowers arranged in umbel-like groups on the ends of branchlet ...

'' P.R.Alvarez & Duretto *''

Asterolasia sola ''Asterolasia'' is a genus of seventeen species of erect or prostrate shrubs in the family Rutaceae, and is endemic to Australia. The leaves are simple and arranged alternately, the flowers arranged in umbel-like groups on the ends of branchlet ...

'' Duretto & P.R.Alvarez *''

Boronia amplectens ''Boronia amplectens'' is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is only known from two specimens collected from the Arnhem Land plateau in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is a sprawling shrub with narrow elliptic leaves and four-peta ...

'' Duretto *''

Cyanothamnus acanthocladus ''Cyanothamnus acanthocladus'' is a plant in the citrus family, Rutaceae and is endemic to a small area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low, prickly shrub with small leaves and white, four-petalled flowers. Description ''Cyanotha ...

'' ( PaulG.Wilson)Duretto & Heslewood *''

Drummondita ''Drummondita'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rutaceae. Its native range is Southwestern and Northern Australia. The genus name of ''Drummondita'' is derived from Thomas Drummond Captain Thomas Drummond (10 October ...

borealis'' Duretto *''

Leionema bilobum ''Leionema bilobum'', commonly known as notched phebalium, is a shrub species of the family Rutaceae. It is endemic to south-eastern Australia. The species was first formally described by English botanist John Lindley from material collected dur ...

subsp. thackerayense'' Duretto & K.L.Durham *'' Pterostylis extranea'' (

D.L.Jones David Lloyd Jones (born 1944) is an Australian horticultural botanist and the author of many books and papers, especially on Australian orchids. Jones was born in Victoria and in his youth was a student at Burnley Horticultural College, then th ...

) Janes & Duretto *'' Zieria vagans'' Duretto &

P.I.Forst. Paul Irwin Forster (born 1961) is an Australian botanist. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Queensland in 2004 with his thesis ''The pursuit of plants : studies on the systematics, ecology and chemistry of the vascular flora of A ...

Selected publications

*Barrett, R.L., Barrett, M.D., & Duretto, M.F. (2015) Four new species of ''Boronia'' (Rutaceae) from the Kimberley region of Western Australia
Nuytsia, 26; 89-109.

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* *Duretto, M.F. (2009). ''49 Gunneraceae''
Flora of Tasmania Online
* Duretto, M.F. (2009) ''87 Rutaceae''.
Version 2009:1, Flora of Tasmania Online

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* Choia, B.K. & Duretto, M.F. (2008) ''Correa alba'' Andrews var. ''rotundifolia'' DC.(Rutaceae): an old name for a newly recognised variety endemic to south-eastern Tasmania
Muelleria, 26(2), 45-53.
* Duretto, M.F. & Forster, P.I. (2007) “A Taxonomic Revision of the Genus Zieria Sm. (Rutaceae) in Queensland.�
Austrobaileya, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 473–544.JSTOR
* Duretto, M.F., Durham, K.L., James, E.A.,Ladige, P.Y. (2006) ''New subspecies of

(Rutaceae)''
Muelleria 23: 7–14.
*Duretto, M.F. (2003) ''Notes on Boronia (Rutaceae) in eastern and northern Australia''
Muelleria 17 19–135.
* * Weston, P.H & Duretto, M.F. (1999)
''Boronia fraseri'' New South Wales Flora Online

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