Lara Dawn Shepherd (fl. 2012), New Zealand evolutionary biologist and botanist.

• Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, PO Box 467, Wellington, New Zealand School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand

IPNI standard form: L.D.Sheph.

Taxon names authored

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• 2 taxon names authored by Lara Dawn Shepherd

Publications

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• Perrie, L.R., Shepherd, L.D. & Brownsey, P.J. 2005.: Asplenium ×lucrosum nothosp. nov.: a sterile hybrid widely and erroneously cultivated as "Asplenium bulbiferum". Plant Systematics and Evolution 250(3–4): 243–257. DOI: 10.1007/s00606-004-0239-7 Reference page. 
• Shepherd, L.D., Perrie, L.R., Parris, B.S. & Brownsey, P.J. 2007. A molecular phylogeny for the New Zealand Blechnaceae ferns from analyses of chloroplast trn L‐trn F DNA sequences. New Zealand Journal of Botany 45(1): 67-80. DOI: 10.1080/00288250709509703 Reference page. 
• Perrie, L.R.; Shepherd, L.D. & Brownsey, P.J. 2012. Gleichenia inclusisora, a new and uncommon tangle fern from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 50(4): 401–410. DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.2012.724015 Reference page. 
• Perrie, L.R., Shepherd, L.D., de Lange, P.J., Batty, E.L., Ohlsen, D.J., Bayly, M.J. & Brownsey, P.J. 2013. Hymenophyllum pluviatile, a new and uncommon fern from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 51(4): 308–320. DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.2013.834830 Reference page. 
• Perrie, L.R., Shepherd, L.D., Thouvenot, L. & von Konrat, M.J. 2014. Chloroplast DNA sequences support the transfer of the New Caledonian endemic fern Sphenomeris alutacea to Odontosoria. New Zealand Journal of Botany 52(3): 310–314. DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.2014.907816 Reference page. 
• Ball, O.J-P., Webber, W.R. & Shepherd, L.D. 2017. New species and phylogeny of landhoppers in the genus Waematau Duncan, 1994 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Talitridae) from northern New Zealand. Zootaxa 4306(2): 151–207. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4306.2.1. Reference page. 
• de Lange, P.J., Large, M.F., Shepherd, L., Rolfe, J.R. & Gardner, R.O. 2019. The endemic that never was — resolving the status of Coprosma solandri (Rubiaceae). Gardens' Bulletin Singapore 71(Suppl. 2): 143–153. DOI: 10.26492/gbs71(suppl.2).2019-11 Reference page. 
• Ohlsen, D.J., Brownsey, P.J., Shepherd, L.D., Perrie, L.R., May, E.L., Chen, C.W. & Bayly, M.J. 2020. Pteris epaleata, a new fern species from Australia and New Zealand segregated from P. comans (Pteridaceae). Muelleria 39: 17–26. PDF Reference page. 
• Chen, D.K., Zhou, X.-M., Rothfels, C.J., Shepherd, L.D., Knapp, R., Zhang, L., Lu, N.T., Fan, X.-P., Wan, X., Gao, X.F. & Zhang, L.-B. 2022 [publ. 6 Nov 2021]. A global phylogeny of Lycopodiaceae (Lycopodiales; Lycophytes) with the description of a new genus, Brownseya, from Oceania. Taxon 71(1): 25–51. DOI: 10.1002/tax.12597 Reference page.