Philip Sydney Short - Publications
(incomplete and excluding book reviews).

Taxonomic papers

Published about 35 taxonomic papers (some jointly) relating to various genera and species belonging to the flowering plant families Apiaceae, Cleomaceae, Malvaceae, Molluginaceae and, primarily, the Asteraceae. Also, senior author of a review of the ferns and fern allies of the Northern Territory. Examples include:

Short, P.S. (1979). Apium L. sect. Apium (Umbelliferae) in Australasia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 1: 205-235.

Short, P.S. (1983). A revision of Angianthus Wendl. sensu lato (Compositae: Inuleae: Gnaphaliinae). Muelleria 5: 143-214.

Short, P.S. (1985). A revision of Actinobole Fenzl ex Endl. (Compositae: Inuleae: Gnaphaliinae). Muelleria 6: 9-22.

Short, P.S. (1986). A revision of Pogonolepis Steetz (Compositae: Inuleae: Gnaphaliinae). Muelleria 6: 237-253.

Short, P.S. (1987). A revision of Blennospora A.Gray (Compositae: Inuleae: Gnaphaliinae). Muelleria 6: 349-358.

Short, P.S. (1989). A revision of Podotheca Cass. (Asteraceae: Inuleae: Gnaphaliinae). Muelleria 7: 39-56.

Short, P.S. (1990). A revision of Trichanthodium Sond. & F.Muell. ex Sond. (Asteraceae: Inuleae: Gnaphaliinae). Muelleria 7: 213-224.

Short, P.S. (1990). A revision of the genus Chthonocephalus Steetz (Inuleae: Asteraceae). Muelleria 7: 225-238.

Short, P.S. (1995). A revision of Millotia Cass. (Asteraceae - Gnaphalieae). Australian Systematic Botany 8: 1-47.

Short, P.S. (2000). Notes on Myriocephalus Benth. s. lat. (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae). Australian Systematic Botany 13: 729-738.

Short, P.S. (2000). Two new species of Asteridea Lindl. (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae). Australian Systematic Botany 13: 739-744.

Short, P.S. (2004). Three new genera of Australia Astereae (Asteraceae). Muelleria 20: 53-65.

Short, P.S. (2009). A revision of the Brachyscome linearifolia group (Asteraceae: Astereae) from South-eastern Australia. Muelleria 27: 3-35.

Short, P.S. (2010). New species of Cleome L. (Cleomaceae) from the Northern Territory, Australia. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 26: 1-12.

Short, P.S. (2014). A taxonomic review of Brachyscome Cass. s.lat. (Asteraceae: Astereae), including descriptions of a new genus, Roebuckia, new species and new infraspecific taxa. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 28(1): 1-219.

Short, P.S. (2016). Notes concerning the classification of species included in Calocephalus R.Br. s.lat. and Gnephosis Cass. s.lat. (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae), with descriptions of new genera and species. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 29(2): 147-220.

Short, P.S. & Anderberg, A. (1995). Cladistic analysis of Millotia Cass. (Asteraceae - Gnaphalieae). A phylogenetic hypothesis inferred from morphological data. Australian Systematic Botany 8: 49-55.

Short, P.S., Dixon, D., & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2003). A review of the ferns and fern allies of the Northern Territory. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 19: 7-80.

Flora contributions

Contributed treatments of assorted genera of Asteraceae to the Flora of Central Australia (1981), the Flora of South Australia (4th ed., vol. 3, 1986) and the Flora of Victoria (vol. 4, 1999) and Sterculiaceae for Flora of Victoria (vol. 3, 1996).

Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000). Floodplain Flora: a flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia. (Flora of Australia Supplementary Series Number 10). (Australian Biological Resources Study: Canberra). 382 pp.

Chief editor of volume 1 of the Flora of the Darwin Region. Contributed treatments of 40 families (18 families of flowering plants, 22 of ferns and fern allies), and joint author of a further seven families.

Reproductive biology

Short, P.S. (1981). Pollen-ovule ratios, breeding systems and distribution patterns of some Australian Gnaphaliinae (Compositae: Inuleae). Muelleria 4: 395-417.

Short, P.S. (1996). Observations on the reproductive biology of some Western Australian Asteraceae. In Hopper, S.D. et al., Gondwanan Heritage: past, present and future of the Western Australian Biota. (Surrey Beatty & Sons: Chipping Norton). pp. 223-230.

Cytological studies

For joint papers Short was responsible for the taxonomy.

Short, P.S. (1986). Chromosome number reports in Australian Asteraceae. Taxon 35: 610. Watanabe, K. & Short, P.S. (1992). Chromosome number determinations in Brachyscome Cass. (Asteraceae: Astereae) with comments on species delimitation, relationships and cytogeography. Muelleria 7: 457-471.

Watanabe, K., Short, P.S., Denda, T., Suzuki, Y., Ito, M., Yahara, T. & Kosuge, K. (1996). Chromosome number determinations in the Australian Astereae (Asteraceae). Muelleria 9: 197-228.

Watanabe, K., Short, P.S., Denda, T., Konishi, N., Ito, M. & Kosuge, K. (1999). Chromosome number determinations and karyotypes in the Australian Gnaphalieae and Plucheeae (Asteraceae). Australian Systematic Botany. 12: 781-802.

Botanical history

About 15 publications, including two books:

Short, P.S. (ed.) (1990). History of Systematic Botany in Australasia. (Australian Systematic Botany Society Inc.) 326 pp.

Short, P.S. (2003). In Pursuit of Plants. Experiences of nineteenth & early twentieth century plant collectors. (University of Western Australia Press).

Source: Supplied by Philip Short, pers. comm. (Feb. 2024).