# Kelly Anne Shepherd

Kelly Anne Shepherd (born 1970) is an Australian botanist, who has published some 91 names.
The standard author abbreviation K.A.Sheph. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

## Career

Shepherd earned a B.Sc. (Hon) in 1992 with a thesis entitled "Faecal Analysis of Mammalian Herbivores in the Perup Forest, Western Australia." and a Ph.D. ("Systematic Analysis of the Australian Salicornioideae (Chenopodiaceae)" in 2005, both from the University of Western Australia.
From 2004 to 2005 she was a research scientist with the University of Western Australia and Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority. In 2006 she was a post doctoral researcher at the UK Millennium Seed Bank, working on seed dormancy on Australian species with undifferentiated species. From 2006 to 2009, she was a research scientist with the Western Australian Herbarium, where, since September 2009, she has been working as a senior research scientist.

## Selected publications

* Shepherd, K.A. (2007). "Three new species of Tecticornia (formerly Halosarcia) (Chenopodiaceae: Salicornioideae) from the Eremaean Botanical Province, Western Australia" (PDF). Nuytsia. 17: 353–366.
* Shepherd, K.A. (2007). "Tecticornia indefessa (Chenopodiaceae: Salicornioideae), a new mat samphire (formerly Tegicornia) from north of Esperance, Western Australia" (PDF). Nuytsia. 17: 367–374.
* Shepherd, Kelly A.; Wilson, Paul G. (2007). "Incorporation of the Australian genera Halosarcia, Pachycornia, Sclerostegia and Tegicornia into Tecticornia (Salicornioideae, Chenopodiaceae)". Australian Systematic Botany. 20 (4): 319. doi:10.1071/SB07002. ISSN 1030-1887.
* Shepherd, K.A. (2007). "Pityrodia iphthima (Lamiaceae), a new species endemic to banded ironstone in Western Australia, with notes on two informally recognised Pityrodia" (PDF). Nuytsia. 17: 347–352.
* Shepherd, K.A. & van Leeuwen, S.J. (2007). "Tecticornia bibenda (Chenopodiaceae: Salicornioideae), a new C4 samphire from the Little Sandy Desert, Western Australia" (PDF). Nuytsia. 16 (2): 383–391.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
* Shepherd, K.A. (2008). "Tecticornia papillata (Chenopodiaceae: Salicornioideae), a new andromonoecious samphire from near the Carnarvon Range, Western Australia" (PDF). Nuytsia. 18: 259–266.
* Shepherd, K.A. & Wilson, P.G. (2008). "New combinations in the genus Dysphania (Chenopodiaceae)" (PDF). Nuytsia. 18: 267–272.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
* Shepherd, K.A. & Lyons, M.N. (2009). "Three new species of Tecticornia (Chenopodiaceae, subfamily Salicornioideae) identified through Salinity Action Plan surveys of the central wheatbelt region, Western Australia" (PDF). Nuytsia. 19 (1): 167–180.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
* Shepherd, K.; van Leeuwen, S. (2011). "Tecticornia globulifera and T. medusa (subfamily Salicornioideae: Chenopodiaceae), two new priority samphires from the Fortescue Marsh in the Pilbara region of Western Australia". Telopea. 13 (1–2): 349–358. doi:10.7751/telopea20116026.
* Shepherd, K.A.; Thiele, K.R.; Sampson, J.; Coates, D.; Byrne, M. (2015). "A rare, new species of Atriplex (Chenopodiaceae) comprising two genetically distinct but morphologically cryptic populations in arid Western Australia: implications for taxonomy and conservation". Australian Systematic Botany. 28 (4): 234. doi:10.1071/SB15029. ISSN 1030-1887. S2CID 85903596.
* Shepherd, K.A. & Thiele, K.R. (2017). "Teucrium disjunctum, a new name for Spartothamnella canescens (Lamiaceae)" (PDF). Nuytsia. 28: 139–140.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)