Anthony 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.

From at least 1989, he was working at CSIRO, Division of Plant Industry, in Nambour, Queensland, and much of that work was on Eucalypts.

In later years he has contributed to the history of Australian botany, with work on Ludwig Leichhardt, Frederick Kenny, and Cyril Tenison White,

IPNI lists 343 names published by Bean. Examples are:

• Alphitonia pomaderroides (Fenzl) A.R.Bean.
• Eucalyptus exilipes M.I.H. Brooker & A.R. Bean

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