Robert Wayne Davis (born 1959), Australian botanist.

Standard IPNI abbreviation: R.W.Davis

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 28 taxon names authored by Robert Wayne Davis

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

• Davis, R.W. & Butcher, R. 2010. Re-evaluation of Ptilotus polystachyus sens. lat. (Amaranthaceae) and creation of the new combination Ptilotus giganteus. Nuytsia 20: 217–227. PDF Reference page. 

• Davis, R.W. & Tauss, C. 2011. A new and rare species of Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae) from a suburban wetland of the eastern Swan Coastal Plain, Western Australia. Nuytsia 21(3): 98–101. PDF Reference page. 

• Davis, R.W. 2012. Ptilotus christineae is synonymous with the previously Presumed Extinct taxon P. pyramidatus. Nuytsia 22(5): 335. Online (with link to PDF). Reference page. 

• Davis, R.W. & Jobson, P. 2013. Two new species of Westringia sect. Cephalowestringia (Lamiaceae: Westringieae) from the south-west of Western Australia. Nuytsia 23: 271–276. Online (with link to PDF). Reference page. 

• Davis, R.W., Hammer, T.A. & Thiele, K.R. 2014. Two new and rare species of Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae) from the Eneabba sand plains, Western Australia. Nuytsia 24: 123–129. Online (with link to PDF).

• Davis, R.W. 2015. Corrigendum to: Two new and rare species of Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae) from the Eneabba sandplains, Western Australia. Nuytsia 24: 319. Online (with link to PDF). Reference page. 

• Davis, R.W. 2015. A new and rare species of Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae) from the Yalgoo bioregion, Western Australia. Nuytsia 25: 195–196. Online (with link to PDF). Reference page. 

• Hammer, T., Davis, R. & Thiele, K.R. 2015. A molecular framework phylogeny for Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae): Evidence for the rapid diversification of an arid Australian genus. Taxon 64(2): 272–285. DOI: 10.12705/642.6 Reference page. 

• Davis, R., Hammer, T. & Thiele, K.R. 2016. A new and rare species of Nymphoides (Menyanthaceae) from the North West of Western Australia. Nuytsia 27: 245–252. Online (with link to PDF). Reference page. 

• Hammer, T.A., Davis, R.W. & Thiele, K.R. 2017[2018]. Species of Ptilotus, in: KeyBase: Flowering plants of Australia. Reference page. 

• Hammer, T.A., Davis, R.W. & Thiele, K.R. 2017. Wadithamnus, a new monotypic genus in Amaranthaceae. Phytotaxa 295(2): 173–184. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.295.2 Reference page. 

• Davis, R.W. & Hammer, T.A. 2017. Ptilotus benlii (Amaranthaceae), a new species from Western Australia. Nuytsia 28: 299–302. Online, (with link to PDF). Reference page. 

• Hammer, T., Davis, R. & Thiele, K. 2018. The showy and the shy: reinstatement of two species from Ptilotus gaudichaudii (Amaranthaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 31(1): 1–7. DOI: 10.1071/SB17026 Reference page. 

• Hammer, T.A. & Davis, R.W. 2018. Ptilotus actinocladus (Amaranthaceae), a new and rare species from the Gascoyne bioregion, Western Australia. Nuytsia 29: 145–149. Online (with link to PDF). Reference page. 

• Davis, R.W. & Hammer, T.A. 2018. Ptilotus yapukaratja (Amaranthaceae), a new species from the Gascoyne bioregion of Western Australia. Nuytsia 29: 157–160. Online (with link to PDF). Reference page. 

• Hammer, T.A., Macintyre, P.D., Nge, F.J., Davis, R.W., Mucina, L. & Thiele, K.R. 2018. The noble and the exalted: a multidisciplinary approach to resolving a taxonomic controversy within Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 31(3): 262–280. DOI: 10.1071/SB17062 Reference page.