About Theodore Aplin
Lived 1927 – 1991 (aged 63–64). Theodore Aplin was a botanist and botanical collector.
Theodore Ernest Holmes Aplin (1927 – 3 July 1991), known as Ted Aplin, was an Australian botanist who was educated in India and Australia. He spent most of his working life at the Western Australian Herbarium as an identification botanist, also doing administrative work for John Green. Aplin collected more than 6,000 plant specimens for the herbarium, and the genus Taplinia is named in his honour.
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Australian botanist
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Theodore Aplin was born in 1927.
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Theodore Aplin died on 3 July 1991.
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Theodore Aplin was a botanist and botanical collector.
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