Brendan Lepschi

Curator, Australian National Herbarium

Graduate Diploma in Environmental Science, Curtin University, Perth (1997)

Phone (+61) 02 6246 5167

Fax: (+61) 02 6246 5249

E-mail: Brendan.Lepschicsiro.au

Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research
CSIRO Plant Industry
GPO Box 1600
Canberra ACT 2601
AUSTRALIA

Research interests include systematics of Melaleuca (Myrtaceae), Santalaceae, Goodeniaceae and the introduced flora, local floristics and (with Bob Godfree) community ecology/invasion dynamics of temperate grasslands.

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

Lepschi, BJ, Mallinson, DJ & Cargill, DC (eds) (2012).  Census of the Vascular Plants, Hornworts, Liverworts and Slime Moulds of the Australian Capital Territory.  Version 3.0 <www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/ACT-census-2012/index.html >

Godfree R, Lepschi B, Reside A, Bolger T, Robertson B, Marshall D, Carnegie M (2010). Multiscale topoedaphic heterogeneity increases resilience and resistance of a dominant grassland species to extreme drought and climate change. Global Change Biology 17: 943-958.

Lepschi BJ (2010). A new subspecies of Choretrum spicatum F.Muell. (Santalaceae) from South Australia. J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 24: 53-55.

Craven, LA, Lepschi BJ and Fryxell PA (2010). A new species of Cleome from northwestern Australia (Capparaceae). Blumea 55: 100-101

Lepschi BJ (2009). Santalaceae [version 2009:2]. In Duretto, M.F. (Ed.) Flora Tasmania Online. (Tasmanian Herbarium, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery: Hobart) <www.tmag.tas.gov.au/floratasmania>

Lepschi, BJ, Mallinson, DJ & Cargill, DC (eds) (2008).  Census of the Vascular Plants, Hornworts and Liverworts of the Australian Capital Territory.  Version 2.0 <www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/ACT-census/index.html>

Wege, JA & Lepschi, BJ (2007).  A new species of Arabidella (Brassicaceae) from Western Australia.  Nuytsia, 17: 453-458

Hosking , JR, Conn, BJ, Lepschi, BJ, Barker, CH. 2007. Plant species first recognised as naturalised for New South Wales over the period 2002-2003, with additional comments on plants first recognised as naturalised in New South Wales during 2000–2001. Cunninghamia, 10: 139-166

Symon , DE , Lepschi, B. 2007. A new status in Nicotiana (Solanaceae): Nicotiana monoschizocarpa (P.Horton) Symon & Lepschi. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden, 21: 92

Godfree, RC, Vivian, LM, Lepschi, BJ. 2006. Risk assessment of transgenic virus-resistant white clover: non-target plant community characterisation and implications for field trial design. Biological Invasions, 8: 1159-1178

Orchard , AE, Lepschi, BJ, Hislop, M. 2005. New taxa and new combinations in Western Australian Haloragis (Haloragaceae) and the rediscovery of H. platycarpa. Nuytsia, 15: 431-444

Lepschi, BJ, Trudgen, ME, van Leeuwen, SJ. 2005. Two new species of Dampiera (Goodeniaceae) from the Pilbara region, Western Australia. Nuytsia, 15: 269-276

Hosking , JR, Conn, BJ, Lepschi, BJ. 2004. Plant species recognised as naturalised for New South Wales during 2000 and 2001. Cunninghamia, 8: 175-187

Broadhurst, L, Byrne, M, Craven, L, Lepschi, B. 2004. Genetic congruence with new species boundaries in the Melaleuca uncinata complex (Myrtaceae). Australian Journal of Botany, 52: 729-737

Craven, LA, Lepschi, BJ, Broadhurst, LM, Byrne, MB. 2004. Taxonomic revision of the broombush complex in Western Australia (Myrtaceae, Melaleuca uncinata s.l.). Australian Systematic Botany, 17: 255-271

Murray, BR, Lepschi, BJ. 2004. Are locally rare species abundant elsewhere in their geographical range? Austral Ecology, 29: 287-293

Kim, S-C, Lu, CT, Lepschi, BJ. 2004. Phylogenetic positions of Actites megalocarpa and Sonchus hydrophilus (Sonchinae: Asteraceae) based on ITS and chloroplast non-coding DNA sequences. Australian Systematic Botany. 17: 17-38

Godfree, RC, Lepschi, BJ, Mallinson, DJ. 2004. Ecological filtering of exotic plants in an Australian sub-alpine environment. Journal of Vegetation Science. 15: 227-236

Brendan is Curator of the Australian National Herbarium (ANH), a collection of 1.4 million specimens covering Australia, Malesia and the SW Pacific.

Research interests include systematics of Melaleuca (Myrtaceae), Santalaceae, Goodeniaceae and the introduced flora, local floristics and (with Bob Godfree) community ecology/invasion dynamics of temperate grasslands.

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