 Robert Desmond Meikle

Robert Desmond Meikle OBE (born 18 May 1923 in Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland) is an Irish botanist from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.He became most notable for his two-volume work "Flora of Cyprus" (1977 and 1985), the first comprehensive contribution about the almost 1750 plant taxa from Cyprus.