Edwin Cheel was an Australian botanist and collector.

Before being appointed as a staff member of Centennial Park in 1897 he was a gardener in New South Wales and Queensland. Later he transferred to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney

Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney

The Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney, Australia, are the most central of the three major botanical gardens open to the public in Sydney....

. In 1908 he joined the National Herbarium, and was appointed Chief Botanist and Curator from 1933 to 1936. He described plants in the Myrtle family

Myrtaceae

The Myrtaceae or Myrtle family are a family of dicotyledon plants, placed within the order Myrtales. Myrtle, clove, guava, feijoa, allspice, and eucalyptus belong here. All species are woody, with essential oils, and flower parts in multiples of four or five...

 such as Melaleuca howeana

Melaleuca howeana

Melaleuca howeana is a shrub or bush to 3 m tall in the myrtle family. It grows at the Lord Howe Island group. Common in exposed areas, on cliffs and ridges, occasionally forming pure stands....

. Apart from the myrtles, his other main botanic interest were the lichen

Lichen

Lichens are composite organisms consisting of a symbiotic organism composed of a fungus with a photosynthetic partner , usually either a green alga or cyanobacterium...

s. He traveled extensively in collection of botanical specimens, which are lodged in New South Wales

New South Wales

New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

. He has a street named after him in the suburb of Farrer

Farrer, Australian Capital Territory

Farrer is a suburb in the Canberra, Australia district of Woden. The postcode is 2607.-Name origin:Named for William James Farrer , a wheat-breeding pioneer, many of whose experiments were conducted at Lambrigg near Tharwa.-Location:...

, in the Australian Capital Territory

Australian Capital Territory

The Australian Capital Territory, often abbreviated ACT, is the capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia and is the smallest self-governing internal territory...

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External links

• http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/cheel-edwin.html
• http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Cheel
• http://www.ipni.org/ipni/editAdvAuthorSearch.do;jsessionid=A84EA40E26987D793BBFC0B31BA4C870?find_abbreviation=Cheel&find_surname=&find_isoCountry=&find_forename=&output_format=normal