Peter Heenan

Peter Brian Heenan (born 1961) is a New Zealand botanist.

Heenan has a 1984 diploma from Lincoln University, and graduated from the University of Canterbury with a PhD in 2000. In 2024, Heenan was awarded the Leonard Cockayne Memorial Lecture by the Royal Society Te Apārangi for "his decades-long commitment to Aotearoa New Zealand’s rich botany and sharing his knowledge with audiences across the country and the world".

Names published (incomplete list - 193 names published) Alternanthera nahui Heenan & de Lange, New Zealand J. Bot. 47(1): 102 (99–104; figs. 2B, 3C, 4B) (2009). Arthropodium bifurcatum Heenan, A.D.Mitch. & de Lange, New Zealand J. Bot. 42(2): 239 (−242; fig. 7) (2004). Brachyscome lucens Molloy & Heenan, Phytotaxa 415(1): 35 (2019). (These may not all be accepted names.)

See also Taxa named by Peter Brian Heenan. Selected publications