De Nardi, Jan Christina   (née Morrow)   (1937 - 2022)

Born on 17 May 1937; died on 11 December 2022 in Lismore, NSW, aged 85.

She worked in the Brisbane Herbarium in the 1960s.

She worked for the NSW herbarium in Sydney from the late 1960s into the 1970s.

She later worked for the University of NSW Herbarium, retiring in 2002.

From 2002 she was an active member of the Friends of Lismore Rainforest Botanic Gardens on the north coast of NSW.

Jan was elected president of the Friends in August 2008 and stayed in that role till 2013. - a period of great development at the Gardens.

She remained on the executive and her focus moved more to propagation and education.

When Rose Hand resigned as Nursery Manager at the end of 2017 Jan took on the role.
She was also an instructor of guides and 'go to' person for plant identification and much more. Her knowledge of plants and her ability to share that knowledge was immeasurable.

Her last event at the Gardens was the receiving of FLRBG Life Membership on 21 August 2022.

She was one of the authors of:
'GRASSES OF THE TWEED VALLEY OF NSW
An Introductory Field Guide to Locally Common Grasses: Native and Introduced', by Penny Watsford, Jan De Nardi, Penelope Jane Watsford (2004).

Source: Extracted from:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/434955569922530/posts/5728284187256282/?_rdr
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/247495927/jan-christina-de_nardi#view-photo=263965572
https://friendslrbg.com.au/images/newsletters/FLRBG%20Newsletter%20February%202023%20FINAL%20webpage.pdf
Portrait Photo: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/247495927/jan-christina-de_nardi

Collecting localities for 'De Nardi, J.C.' from AVH (2025)

Data from 1,279 specimens