Malcolm Eric Trudgen Explained

Malcolm Eric Trudgen (born 1951) is a West Australian botanist.He has published some 105 botanical names.^[1] He currently runs his own consulting company, ME Trudgen and Associates.^[2]

He has worked in the Pilbara.

Some publications

• • Trudgen, M.E. . 1986. Reinstatement and revision of Rinzia Schauer (Myrtaceae, Leptospermeae, Baeckeinae). Nuytsia. 5. 415–439. .
• Book: Trudgen, M.E., & Griffin, E.A. . 2001. A Flora, Vegetation and Floristic Survey of the Burrup Peninsula, Some Adjoining Areas and Part of the Dampier Archipelago with Comparisons to the Floristics of Areas on the Adjoining Mainland: Floristic Analysis of Vegetation Site Data from the Burrup Peninsula, Dolphin, Angel and Gidley Islands with Data from Cape Preston, the Chichester Ranges and Other Localities. ME Trudgen and Associates.
• Book: Trudgen, M.E. . 1984. A flora and vegetation survey of the Weeli Wolli Creek area. (Unpublished report prepared for the Mt Newman Mining Company.).
• Book: Trudgen, M.E. & Casson, N.. 1998. Flora and vegetation survey of Orebody A and Orebody B in the West Angelas Hill area, an area surrounding them, and of rail route options considered to link them to the existing Robe River Iron Associates rail line. (Unpublished report for Robe River Iron Associates.).
• Book: Trudgen, M.E.. 2002. A flora, vegetation and floristic survey of the Burrup Peninsula, some adjoining areas and part of the Dampier Archipelago, with comparisons to the floristic of areas on the adjacent mainland. (Unpublished report for the Department of Minerals & Petroleum Resources: Perth.).
• Rye, B.L. & Trudgen, M.E. . 2008 . Seorsus a new Gondwanan genus of Myrtaceae with a disjunct distribution in Borneo and Australia . . 18 . 235–257 .

Honours

• A daisy, Pilbara trudgenii, which he and Colma Keating discovered in 1985 east of Paraburdoo in the Hamersley Range and which has been named in his honour.^{[3] [4]}
• Micromyrtus trudgenii, a Myrtaceae species,
• a wattle, Acacia trudgeniana (Trudgen's wattle)^{[5] [6]} and
• a trigger plant, Stylidium trudgenii,^{[7] [8]} also honour Trudgen, because it was he who drew attention the existence of these plants.

Some published names

• Aluta Rye & Trudgen, Nuytsia 13(2): 347 (2000).
• Angasomyrtus Trudgen & Keighery, Nuytsia 4(3): 435 (1983). (not accepted, synonymous with Kunzea)
• Astartea granitica Rye & Trudgen, Nuytsia 23: 239 (2013).
• Astus Trudgen & Rye, Nuytsia 15(3): 502 (498-503) (2005).
• Enekbatus Trudgen & Rye, Nuytsia 20: 241 (-242) (2010).
• Ochrosperma Trudgen, Nuytsia 6(1): 11 (1987).
• Seorsus Rye & Trudgen, Nuytsia 18: 248 (-249) (2008).

Notes and References

1. https://www.ipni.org/a/27931-1 IPNI: Trudgen, Malcolm Eric (1951-)
2. Web site: M.E. Trudgen and Associates. 2020-07-04. Research Data Australia. en.
3. Web site: Western Australian Herbarium, Biodiversity and Conservation Science. 2013. FloraBase—the Western Australian Flora: Plant of the month Pilbara trudgenii. 2020-07-04. florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au. en.
4. Web site: Pilbara trudgenii International Plant Names Index. 2020-07-04. www.ipni.org.
5. Web site: Factsheet - trudgeniana. 2020-07-04. worldwidewattle.com.
6. Maslin, B.R. & van Leeuwen, S.. 2008. New taxa of Acacia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) and notes on other species from the Pilbara and adjacent desert regions of Western Australia. Nuytsia. 18. 180–183, Fig. 11.
7. Web site: Vascular Plants. 2020-07-04. biodiversity.org.au.
8. Lowrie, A. & Kenneally, K.F.. 2004. Two new species of Stylidium (Stylidiaceae) from the south-east of Western Australia. The Western Australian Naturalist. 24. 3.