Joyce Winifred Vickery (15 December 1908 – 29 May 1979) was an Australian botanist who specialised in taxonomy and became well known in Australia for forensic botany.
[1] After negotiations which increased the pay offered, she accepted the position and was the first female researcher appointed to the New South Wales Herbarium.
[2] Lilian Ross Fraser and Vickery co-discovered Lomandra hystrix, which they published in Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 62: 286 1937.
In 1960 she came to wider public attention when she was called on the New South Wales Police to identify plant fragments in the kidnap and murder of Graeme Thorne in August 1960.
At trial in March 1961 Stephen Leslie Bradley was convicted, based largely on her analysis of crime scene plant matter and soil.