Ethel Irene McLennan

Ethel Irene McLennan (15 March 1891 – 12 June 1983) was an Australian botanist, mycologist and educator.

[1] The daughter of George McLennan and Eleanor Tucker, she was born in Williamstown, Victoria and was educated at the Tintern Church of England Girls' Grammar School in Hawthorn.

Her main areas of interest were mycology and plant-fungal relationships.

[1] She received an International Federation of University Women fellowship in 1925 which allowed her to pursue research at the Rothamsted Agricultural Experimental Station and the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London.

In collaboration with colleagues during the Second World War, she contributed to improvements to the utility of optical instruments in tropical regions, where fungi were prone to cause defects.