Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria
Australian National Herbarium
Biographical Notes
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Mitchell, Andrew Stewart (1952–)Born in 1952.
He worked for the Northern Territory Herbarium based in Alice Springs in the 1970s and at the Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife Commission in the 1980s. Author of the names Hibiscus arenicola A.S.Mitch., Abutilon lepidum (F.Muell.) A.S.Mitch., and Heliotropium flintii F.Muell. ex A.S.Mitch. Collector of the type material for Senecio eremicola I.Thomps., Thryptomene naviculata J.W.Green, and Platysace saxatilis Keighery. Authored treatments for several families in the Flora of Central Australia (1981) and also booklets Fodder Trees and Shrubs of the Northern Territory (1978), Eucalypts of Central Australia (1980) and Central Australia's Desert Survivors (1981).Sources:
J.H. Willis et al., Australian plants: collectors and illustrators 1780s–1980s, Western Australian Herbarium Research Notes 12: 71 (1986).
Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter back issues, consulted online at https://asbs.org.au/newsletter.html
Australian Plant Name Index records (accessed 7 July 2023)
National Library of Australia catalogue records (accessed 10 July 2023)
Portrait Photo: 1978, Alice Springs Herbarium, George Chippendale photo collection now held by ANBG.
Data from 780 specimens
this is probably not complete, as this collector could have been entered as 'Mitchell, A.' in some instances, which can be confused with 'Mitchell A.A.' and 'Mitchell, A.C.'.
