Paul Irwin Forster (born 1961) is an Australian botanist. He obtained his doctorate from the

University of Queensland , mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work , established = , endowment = A$224.3 million , budget = A$2.1 billion , type = Public research university , chancellor = Peter Varghese , vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry , city = B ...

in 2004 with his thesis ''The pursuit of plants : studies on the systematics, ecology and chemistry of the vascular flora of Australia and related regions''. He has worked at the

Queensland Herbarium The Queensland Herbarium (Index Herbariorum code: BRI) is situated at the Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mount Coot-tha, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is part of Queensland's Department of Environment and Science. It is responsible for disco ...

since 1991 as a plant taxonomist and has been editor of ''

Austrobaileya ''Austrobaileya'' is the sole genus consisting of a single species that constitutes the entire flowering plant family Austrobaileyaceae. The species ''Austrobaileya scandens'' grows naturally only in the Wet Tropics rainforests of northeast ...

'' since 2005. His research interests are the systematics of vascular plants and reproductive and conservation biology of

cycads Cycads are seed plants that typically have a stout and woody (ligneous) trunk with a crown of large, hard, stiff, evergreen and (usually) pinnate leaves. The species are dioecious, that is, individual plants of a species are either male or ...

. He has also published extensively on plant-insect interactions. See, e.g.,

Plants named in his honour

* '' Aristida forsteri'' B.K.Simon * '' Boronia forsteri''

Duretto Marco Duretto (born 1964) is a manager and senior research scientist at the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney in Australia. His primary research interests are systematics and conservation of Rutaceae, Rubiaceae, Orchidaceae, Stylidiaceae and evoluti ...

* '' Hibiscus forsteri'' F.D.Wilson * ''

Medicosma forsteri ''Medicosma forsteri'' is a species of small tree in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of Queensland. It has elliptical leaves and cream-coloured flowers borne singly or in small groups in leaf axils. Description ''Medicos ...

T.G.Hartley Thomas Gordon Hartley (9 January 1931 in Beaumont, Texas – 8 March 2016 in Canberra, Australia) was an American botanist. Biography In 1955 Hartley graduated in botany with the academic degree Bachelor of Science at the University of Wisconsin- ...

* '' Marsdenia forsteri'' I.M.Turner * '' Micromyrtus forsteri''

A.R.Bean Anthony Russell Bean (born 1957) is an Australian botanist who works at the Queensland Herbarium and Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mount Coot-tha. Since 1982, he has led the Eucalyptus Study Group of the Society for Growing Australian Plants. Caree ...

* '' Parmotrema forsteri''

Elix Elix may refer to: * Əlix, a village in the municipality of Quturğan in the Qusar Rayon of Azerbaijan * John Alan Elix (born 1941) (Elix), an Australian lichenologist See also * Helix (disambiguation) A helix is a spiral-like space curve. Heli ...

& R.W.Rogers * '' Parsonsia paulforsteri'' J.B.Williams * '' Prolixus forsteri'' J.J.Beard * ''

Psydrax forsteri ''Psydrax'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It consists of trees, shrubs, and a few lianas in the paleotropics. Taxonomy The genus was named by Joseph Gaertner in 1788 in his book, ''De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum ...

S.T.Reynolds Sally T. Reynolds (born 1932) is an Australian botanist. She worked at the Queensland Herbarium as principal botanist and as a specialist on Australian Sapindaceae. Paul Irwin Forster, Paul Forster named ''Synima reynoldsiae'' in recognition of ...

& R.J.F.Hend. (from CHAH biography)

Some published names

* '' Aloe bruynsii'' P.I.Forst. * ''

Borya inopinata ''Borya'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boryaceae, endemic to Australia. , the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families accepted 11 species:Search for "Borya", The Western Australia Flora lists nine current taxa. * ''Borya ...

'' P.I.Forst. & E.J.Thomps. * ''

Zieria vagans ''Zieria vagans'', commonly known as Gurgeena stink bush, is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and endemic to a small area near Binjour in south-eastern Queensland. It is an open, straggly shrub with densely hairy branches, three-part leaves ...

& P.I.Forst. * See also :Taxa named by Paul Irwin Forster, and
International Plant Name Index: Plant names authored by Paul Irwin Forster

Some publications

* (1989) ''Ecophysiological, morphological and anatomical variation between selected provenances of Eucalyptus grandis and E. saligna (Myrtaceae)'' * (1990) ''Proposal to Conserve Marsdenia R. Br. against Stephanotis Thouars (Asclepiadaceae)''. Taxon 39 ( 2): 364-367 * (1991) ''A taxonomic revision of Cynanchum L. (Asclepiadaceae: Asclepiadoideae) in Australia''. Australian systematic botany 3 * (1991) ''A taxonomic revision of Gymnanthera R.Br. (Asclepiadaceae: Periplocoideae) in Australia''. Australian systematic botany 4 * (1992) ''A taxonomic revision of Alstonia (Apocynaceae) in Australia''. Australian systematic botany 5 * 1992b. ''New Varietal Combinations in Agave Vivipara (Agavaceae)''. Brittonia 44 ( 1): 74-75 * (1993) ''Rediscovery of Euphorbia carissoides (Euphorbiaceae)''. Australian Systematic Botany 6 (3): 269-272 * (1993) ''Taxonomic Relationships and Status of the Genus Dorystephania (Asclepiadaceae: Marsdenieae) from the Philippines and Borneo''. Australian Systematic Botany 6 ( 4): 351-357 * (1994) '' Type collections of Asclepiadaceae at Herbarium Bogoriense (BO)''. Australian Systematic Botany 7 (5 ): 507-519 * (1995) '' New names and combinations in Marsdenia (Asclepiadaceae: Marsdenieae) from Asia and Malesia (excluding Papusia)''. Australian Systematic Botany 8 ( 5): 691-701 * (1995) ''Corrigenda — Circumscription of Marsdenia (Asclepiadaceae: Marsdenieae), with a revision of the genus in Australia and Papuasia''. Australian Systematic Botany 8 (5 ): 703-933 * (1995) ''Circumscription ofMarsdenia (Asclepiadaceae: Marsdenieae), with a revision of the genus in Australia and Papuasia''. Australian Systematic Botany 8 ( 5): 703-933 * ----, PC van Welzen. 1999. ''The Malesian species of Choriceras, Fontainea, and Petalostigma (Euphorbiaceae)''. Blumea, J.Plant Taxonomy & Geography 44-1 * Terry, I., CJ Moore, GH Walter, PI Forster, RB Roemer, J Donaldson, P Machin. (2004) ''Association of cone thermogenesis and volatiles with pollinator specificity in Macrozamia cycads''. Plant Systematics and Evolution 243: 233-247 * Chemnick, J, R Oberprieler, J Donaldson, I Terry, R Osborne, W Tang, PI Forster. (2004) ''Insect pollinators of cycads: protocol for collecting and studying cycad pollinators''. The Cycad Newsletter 27 (5): 3-7 * Terry, I, G Walter, C Moore, PI Forster, P Machin, J Donaldson. (2004) ''Cone volatiles of selected Macrozamia species and their possible role in pollinator specificity and species isolation''. pp. 155–169. En Ed. A. Lindstrom (ed.). Proc. from the 61º International Cycad Conference on Cycad Biology, Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden, Tailandia. 155-169 * Rasikari, HL, Leach, DN, Waterman, PG, Spooner-Hart, RN, Basta, AH, Banbury, LK & Forster, PI. (2005) ''Acaricidal and cytotoxic activities of extracts from selected genera of Australian Lamiaceae''. J. of Economic Entomology 98 ( 4): 1259-1266 * Rasikari, HL, Leach, DN, Waterman, PG, Spooner-Hart, RN, Basta, AH, Banbury, LK, Winter, KM & Forster, PI. (2005) ''Cytotoxic clerodane diterpenes from Glossocarya calcicola''. Phytochemistry 66 ( 24): 2844-2850 * Terry, I, G Walter, C Moore, PI Forster, J Donaldson. (2005) ''Pollination of Australian Macrozamia cycads - effectiveness and behavior of specialist vectors in a dependent mutualism''. Am. J. of Botany * Wanntorp, L; PI Forster. (2007). ''Phylogenetic relationships between ''Hoya'' and the monotypic genera ''Madangia'', ''Absolsmia'', and Micholitzia (Apocynaceae, Marsdenieae): Insights from flower morphology.'' Missouri Botanical Garden * Terry, I, PI Forster, R Roemer, P Machin, C Moore. (2008). ''Does Macrozamia platyrhachis (Zamiaceae) deserve endangered species status? Conservation and pollination biology of a geographically restricted cycad''. Australian J. of Botany

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Forster, Paul 1961 births 20th-century Australian botanists Living people 21st-century Australian botanists