Telford, Ian R.H.   (1941 - )

Ian first came to Canberra from Queensland in 1963 to attend the ANU Foresty course, returned to Brisbane and briefly worked for the Forestry Dept. He then returned to Canberra and got a position as 'gardener' at the Canberra Botanic Gardens (now Australian National Botanic Gardens) in November 1966. He moved on to a position in the Gardens' herbarium in April 1967.

He undertook his first herbarium collecting trip in May 1967.

When the Botanic Gardens herbarium merged with the CSIRO herbarium in 1994, Ian moved onto the CSIRO Black Mountain campus as part of the curatorial staff of the Australian National Herbarium.

In 1998 he retired from the Herbarium to move to Armadale, northern NSW.

He became an Associate of the herbarium of the University of New England, with the title of 'Honorary Curator, N.C.W. Beadle Herbarium'.

He was awarded a PhD from UNE in 2015, for his thesis on 'Morphological and molecular data corroborate generic recognition of Synostemon (family Phyllantheae) with increased species diversity'.

Ian's main research interests are in the biology, systematics and biogeography of Cucurbitaceae and Phyllanthaceae. For both families, as part of an international collaboration, he contributes particularly to the understanding of species limits and relationship of the Australian members.
Ian also has active research interests in the Asteraceae, Lamiaceae and Apiaceae, and the flora of north-eastern New South Wales.

Source: Extracted from:
https://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/about/history/oral-history/telford-1995.html
https://rune.une.edu.au/web/bitstream/1959.11/18411/5/open/SOURCE03.pdf
https://researchdata.edu.au/ian-rh-telford/15336
Portrait Photo: 1998, M.Fagg.

Collecting localities for 'Telford, I.R.' from AVH (2022)

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