Robert Desmond Meikle OBE (18 May 1923 – 8 February 2021) was a British botanist from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Other works including parts of the encyclopedia Flora Europaea, Willows and Poplars of Great Britain and Ireland from 1984 and Garden Plants from 1963.
He has written articles for the Irish Naturalists' Journal since the 1940s and he was editor of the Draft index of author abbreviations compiled at the Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1980.
[1] He retired from the Herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1983,[2] where he had held the grade of Principal Scientific Officer.
[5] In June 1983, Meikle was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).