Christopher Francis Puttock

Christopher Francis Puttock
Born	1954 (age 71–72)
Citizenship	Australia
Alma mater	University of New South Wales
Scientific career
Fields	Botany
Author abbrev. (botany)	Puttock

Christopher Francis Puttock (born 1954), often cited as C.F.Puttock, is an Australian botanist and taxonomist who has interests in the Rubiaceae and Asteraceae flowering plant families as well as Pteridophyta (ferns) and Rhodophyta (red algae).

Career

Puttock has done field work in Australia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and South Africa, and museum studies in Hawaii, the mainland United States, Europe, Australia and Asia.

He has held the following positions:

• Research assistant, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW (1978-1979).
• Research assistant, (Electron Microscopist), Sydney University, Sydney, NSW (1979-1981).
• Technical officer, University of NSW, Sydney, NSW (1981-1988).
• Senior technical officer, University of NSW, Sydney, NSW (1988-1992).
• Research scientist. Australian Nature Conservation Agency (now known as Parks Australia), Canberra, ACT (1992-?).
• Research associate, Smithsonian Institution.

Legacy

C.F. Puttock is the authority for 47 taxa. Following is a list of existing Wikipedia articles as of May 2021. For a comprehensive list of all taxa authored by Puttock, see his profile at IPNI.

• Atractocarpus benthamianus
• Atractocarpus chartaceus
• Atractocarpus fitzalanii
• Atractocarpus hirtus
• Atractocarpus stipularis
• Cremnothamnus
• Gardenia actinocarpa
• Gardenia dacryoides
• Gardenia ewartii
• Gardenia gardneri
• Gardenia jabiluka
• Gardenia kakaduensis
• Gardenia psidioides
• Gardenia pyriformis
• Gardenia scabrella
• Gardenia sericea
• Ozothamnus cupressoides