With camel, 2018

Walsh, Neville Grant   (1956 - )

Born in 1956;

He commenced work as a field survey botanist at the National Herbarium in Melbourne after graduating from Monash University in 1977.

He has since participated in surveys of vegetation throughout much of Victoria, often collaborating with zoologists, and has undertaken postgraduate research in taxonomic botany.

He has published accounts of the vegetation of central, eastern and alpine Victoria, descriptions of new plant species, and booklets on ferns of the Dandenong Ranges, and rare or threatened plants in Victoria.

He then became the is the Senior Conservation Botanist at the National Herbarium of Victoria, where his projects include systematics and taxonomy of Australian native plants, conservation of rare and threatened native plants and checklists of Victorian plants. He also studies Lobelioideae and stipoid grasses.

He is co-editor of the four-volume Flora of Victoria and has submitted accounts of various plant groups for publication in the Flora of Australia.

Neville manages the Victorian Conservation Seedbank - a project commenced in 2005 focussing on Victoria's threatened species. Currently the bank includes around 1100 species. Some of the seed is now being used for re-establshment projects.

He is a member of the Australian Plant Census working group, the Mountain Invasions Research Network (MIREN) and is a member of recovery teams for threatened plants and animals in Victoria.

He has published more than 112 names in more than 80 peer-reviewed papers.

Source: Extracted from:
Back dust-jacket, 'Flora of Victoria', Vol.2 (1994)
https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005329b.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Grant_Walsh
Portrait Photo: top, 2006, M.Fagg, ANBG Photo Collection;
below, with camel, 2018, Extracted from: https://apsvic.org.au/newsletters/12th%20FJC%20Rogers%20Seminar%202018%20Goodeniaceae%20Newsletter%20March.pdf

Collecting localities for 'Walsh, N.G.' from AVH (2021)

Data from 12,829 specimens