Lepp, Heino   (fl. 1990's - 2000's)

Heino Lepp became an affiliate of the Australian National Botanic Gardens in 1985 and was made an Associate in 1993 working with the Cryptogam Collection but becoming the Gardens' first curator of macro-fungi.

He helps with the fungal queries received by the Gardens from both the public and media.

His major interest is in certain groups of non-lichenized fungi. However, a long friendship with some bryologists and lichenologists has meant that he has also picked up "a modicum of knowledge" about bryophytes and lichens.

He was awarded a 1998 Churchill Fellowship to travel and study fungi in Europe. He utilised the Fellowship to attend meetings, fieldwork and conferences with various European Mycological Societies and to visit a number of herbaria with mycological and bryophyte collections.

In the early 2000's, with financial assistance from the 'Friends of ANBG' he developed three landmark websites introducing the public to 'Australian Fungi' [link], 'Australian Lichens' [link], and 'Australian Bryophytes' [link], mostly illustrated with his own photography.

Source: pers.com. M.Fagg; ANBG website;
https://www.molonglo.org.au/fobm-symposium-biographies ;
https://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/herbnews/cpbrnews04.html .
Portrait Photo: 2006, photo DIG.14696, ANBG Photo Archives.

Collecting localities for 'Lepp, H.' from AVH (2023)

Data from 6,785 specimens