Clifford David Boomsma (20 October 1915 – 13 January 2004) was an Australian forester, botanist and botanical collector.
[1] Boomsma was born in Gawler in South Australia in 1915 and became a ward of the state at three years of age.
[3] He later completed his master's degree on the ecology of Fleurieu Peninsula as well as other regions in South Australia and continued working as a forester for the Woods and Forests department for the remainder of his career and wrote several books on the native trees and ecology of his home state.
[1] He established an arboretum devoted to the endemic South Australian eucalypts near Monarto in the Adelaide hills in the 1980s.
Selected species include; E. mannensis, E. sparsa, E. yumbarrana, E. eremicola, E. yalatensis.