Michael Crisp
Michael Douglas Crisp (born 1950) is an emeritus professor in the Research School of Biology at the Australian National University located in Canberra. In 1976 he gained a PhD from the University of Adelaide, studying long-term vegetation changes in arid zones of South Australia. Together with others he has revised various pea-flowered legume genera ("Daviesia", "Gastrolobium", "Gompholobium", "Pultenaea" and "Jacksonia"). He has made considerable contributions to biogeography, phylogeny and plant evolution.