Neville Grant Walsh

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Neville Grant Walsh
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Author abbrev. (botany) N.G.Walsh

Neville Grant Walsh (born 1956) [1] has worked at the National Herbarium of Victoria from 1977. [2]

Walsh and Don Foreman authored the first volume of Flora of Victoria, [3] authoring a further two with Timothy Entwisle, [4] [5] while for Volume 4 Walsh, Entwisle and Foreman all shared the work. [6]

He has published the name of 112 new species of plants [1] in more than 80 peer-reviewed papers. He has served on the working group (vascular plants) for the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria since 2005, [7] and in 2010 served as its taxonomic advisor on the Campanulaceae family. [7] He has also contributed his knowledge of plant communities in the Victorian Alps to the Mountain Invasion Research Network. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Walsh, Neville Grant | International Plant Names Index". www.ipni.org. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
  2. Moje, C.; Cohn, H. (2013). "Walsh, Neville - Biographical entry - Encyclopedia of Australian Science". www.eoas.info. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
  3. Foreman, Donald B.; Walsh, Neville G. (1993), Flora of Victoria, Inkata Press, ISBN   978-0-909605-76-6
  4. Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J. (1993), Flora of Victoria: Volume 2 - ferns and allied plants, conifers and monocotyledons, Inkata Press
  5. Walsh, Neville G.; Entwisle, Timothy J. (1996). Flora of Victoria: Dicotyledons: Winteraceae to Myrtaceae. Vol. 3. Inkata Press.
  6. Foreman, Donald B.; Walsh, Neville G.; Entwisle, Timothy J. (1999). Flora of Victoria: Dicotyledons: Cornaceae to Asteraceae. Vol. 4. Butterworth-Heinemann.
  7. 1 2 "Australian Plant Census Contributors". www.anbg.gov.au. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
  8. "MIREN - People". 14 September 2009. Archived from the original on 14 September 2009. Retrieved 13 December 2020.