Kevin Thiele

Kevin R. Thiele is currently an adjunct associate professor at the University of Western Australia and the director of Taxonomy Australia. He was the curator of the Western Australian Herbarium from 2006 to 2015. and has been involved in the design of software for the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

He obtained a PhD from the University of Melbourne in 1993, and has since published many papers, notably a treatment of the Rhamnaceae for the Flora of Australia series of monographs, In 2007 he collaborated with Austin Mast to transfer Dryandra to Banksia. More recently, he has worked on pollination systems, taxonomy, vegetation dynamics, and described further new species.

In 2021, Kevin Thiele and Tim Hammer submitted a proposals to amend the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants to allow the rejection of offensive scientific names.

He has contributed over 2000 images to Wikipedia Commons of Western Australian plants and weeds.

Selected recent publications

Some taxa authored by K.R.Thiele