| Gwenda Louise Davis | |
| Birth Name: | Dorothy Gwenda Louise Rodway |
| Birth Date: | 1911 |
| Birth Place: | Chatswood, New South Wales |
| Death Place: | Port Macquarie, New South Wales |
| Fields: | Botany |
| Workplaces: | University of New England (Australia) |
| Nationality: | Australian |
| Author Abbrev Bot: | G.L.Davis |
Gwenda Louise Davis (1911–1993) was an Australian botanist.[1] She is known for her work on embryology,[2] [3] in particular, for work on the embryology of Australian Asteraceae and the genus Eucalyptus.
She started her career as a plant taxonomist in 1945 at the New England University College at Armidale (now the University of New England, and was largely responsible for the creation of the Department of Botany there. After a fire in 1958, which destroyed the building housing the Botany Department, she concentrated her research on plant embryology.[4]
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In 1936 she married Harrold Fosbery Consett Davis.[5] He died in an aircraft accident in New Guinea in 1944, aged 31, leaving Davis to bring up their three children.[6] Her father was the physician-botanist Frederick Arthur Rodway, and her paternal grandfather was the dentist-botanist Leonard Rodway.