Alexander Clifford "Cliff" Beauglehole OAM (26 August 1920 – 19 January 2002) was an Australian farmer, botanist, plant collector and naturalist.
[1] He attended Gorae state primary school but left after attaining his Qualifying Certificate to help his parents on the farm.
[5] After 1968, Beauglehole was contracted to carry out botanical surveys in national parks and for the Victorian Land Conservation Council, which became his principal occupation.
[7] Museums Victoria holds 583 of zoological specimens of vertebrates and invertebrates, including type specimens, that were collected by Beauglehole in Victoria, Western Australia, New South Wales, South Australia, Northern Territory, and Queensland.
[10] In 1984 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for his services to "botany, conservation, and ornithology" by the then-Prince Charles[11] The following plants, algae, and insect species have been named in his honour:[2]