Barbara Ann Whitlock (born 1967)[1] is a botanist, who earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University, with her dissertation Systematics and evolution of chocolate and its relatives (Sterculiaceae or Malvaceae s.l.)
[4][5] Much of her work centres on Malvaceae and related phylogeny.
[6][7][8][9] She has published 39 names,[1] including Androcalva fraseri, and Commersonia borealis.
(See also Taxa named by Barbara Ann Whitlock.)
The standard author abbreviation Whitlock is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.