Lepschi, Brendan John   (1969 - )

Born in 1969 in Canberra, ACT;

An Australian botanist, whose interests include the taxonomy of the genus Melaleuca, the families Santalaceae and Goodeniaceae and how exotic species become naturalised.

He started collecting herbarium specimens in 1988.

He worked for CSIRO, mostly with the Australian National Herbarium, from 1992 to 1995, often working with Lyn Craven on Melaleuca.

He was then on contract at the Western Australian Herbarium, as a consultant botanist.

He then re-joined the Australian National Herbarium staff in August, 1998 in the position of Botanical Services Officer working for the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG).

In January 2002 he was appointed to the position of Curator of the Australian National Herbarium (ANH) in Canberra while still employed by the ANBG.

(ANH is jointly managed by CSIRO and ANBG and currently holds about 1.2 million plant specimens.)

Lepschi is one of 3 editors of Census of the Vascular Plants, Hornworts, Liverworts and Slime Moulds of the Australian Capital Territory and the author or co-author of many taxonomic papers.

Other projects involve plant nomenclature, focusing on compilation and maintainence of the Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) and the Australian Plant Census (APC).

Source: Extracted from:
www.cpbr.gov.au/cpbr/herbnews/cpbrnews07.html - Issue 7: August, 1998
www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/herbnews/cpbrnews41.html - Issue 41: January 2002
www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/staff/lepschi_staff.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Lepschi
Portrait Photo: 2010, Fagg, M.

Collecting localities for 'Lepschi, B.J.' from AVH (2023)

Data from 15,761 specimens