Roger Charles Carolin
Roger Charles Carolin | |
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| Born | 15 October 1929 London, England |
| Died | 3 February 2025 (aged 95) Jaspers Brush, New South Wales, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Education | University of Sydney (Ph.D. 1962) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany |
| Institutions | University of Sydney |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Carolin |
Roger Charles Carolin (15 October 1929 – 3 February 2025) was an Australian botanist and pteridologist. He was appointed a lecturer in botany at the University of Sydney in 1955 earned a Ph.D. from Sydney University in 1962 with a thesis on the floral morphology of the campanales, and retired as an associate professor in 1989.
Much of his research focussed on the Campanulales, in the particular the families, Brunoniaceae and Goodeniaceae. He co-authored the Flora of the Sydney Region (various editions: 1972–1993), and served on the editorial Committees for the Flora of Central Australia and the Flora of Australia. Carolin was the principal author of Flora of Australia Vol. 35. Brunoniaceae, Goodeniaceae (1992).
Carolin died on 3 February 2025, at the age of 95.
The standard author abbreviation Carolin is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.