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Topic Grassland ecosystems
Question Which grassland species are you particularly interested in? Why?
Expert Neville Walsh
Neville Walsh is Senior Conservation Botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. His work involves both plant identification and classification, and, conservation. Neville's roles include naming and describing new plant species and investigating how rare species can be conserved.
Firstly, I’m interested in the grasses themselves, and making sure they’re properly named. But my job requires me to take a particular interest in the rare plants that occur there – for example, Spiny Rice-flower, and this overlaps well with my particular interest in rare plants generally. I’m currently looking into naming what I think is an unnamed species of Goodenia from grasslands of northern Victoria. I’ve checked hundreds of pressed specimens in both the Melbourne and Sydney herbarium collections so I now have a pretty good idea of its natural range, but it seems pretty clear that it...
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