Tanja M. Schuster

Tanja Magdalena Schuster is a taxonomist from Kaindorf, Austria and the first Pauline Ladiges Plant Systematics Fellow, holding a joint position with the School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and the National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. Schuster also worked as curator of the Norton-Brown Herbarium at the University of Maryland, College Park.
In 2011, Schuster created the genus "Duma" for some species previously placed in "Muehlenbeckia", but which were shown by molecular phylogenetic studies to form a distinct clade. The name is derived from the Latin for "thorn-bush."
Taxa authored by Schuster.
Schuster is listed in the International Plant Names Index as the author or co-author of 62 names, including: