Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria
Australian National Herbarium
Biographical Notes
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Lepschi, Brendan Johann (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 joined CSIRO in March 1987, as a Temporary Junior Technical Assistant in the then Division of Entomology, before transferring to the Australian National Herbarium in August 1992, working with Lyn Craven on Melaleuca until January 1995.
He was then on contract at the Western Australian Herbarium, as a consultant botanist. from February 1995 to August 1998
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 holds over 1 million plant specimens.)
Lepschi is the lead editor of the Census of the Plants of the Australian Capital Territory and the author or co-author of many taxonomic papers.
Other projects involve plant nomenclature, focusing on compilation and maintenance of the Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) and the Australian Plant Census (APC).
Sources:
Portrait Photo: 2010, Fagg, M.
Data from 15,761 specimens
