Andrew Phillip Brown

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Andrew Phillip Brown (born 1951) is a conservation biologist and plant scientist from Western Australia. He works as a taxonomist with the Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation and is the curator for the Orchidaceae and Myoporaceae at the Western Australian Herbarium. He helped found the Australian Orchid Foundation and the Western Australia Native Orchid Study and Conservation Group. Brown has written more than 100 journal articles and seven books on Western Australian plants, including a field guide to eremophilas. In botanical citations, his name is abbreviated as A.P.Br.