Barker, William Robert (Bill)   (1948 -  )

Born 31 Oct 1948 in SA,

Graduated Adelaide University, BSc, PhD.

!974 - 1976 Papua New Guinea National Herbarium.

1977 - State Herbarium of South Australia.

He was formerly Chief Botanist of the State Herbarium where he was interested in electronic delivery of herbarium and systematic data and information. His former involvement was in the management and web delivery to international standards of the State Herbarium's key collections, census and descriptive data.

Bill has also been involved in the development of the Australia's Virtual Herbarium through foundation membership of the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria and IT advisory group HISCOM.

His research interests include systematics, evolution, historical biogeography and biology in:
- Australasian Scrophulariaceae in traditional sense (now segregated into Scrophulariaceae, Orobanchaceae, Phrymaceae and Linderniaceae),
- the largely Australian Celastraceae subfam. Stackhousioideae, - and the genus Hakea (Proteaceae, with Robyn Barker and Laurie Haegi).

Also involved in taxonomic revisions of species complexes in Lawrencia and Lasiopetalum (Malvaceae) and Spyridium (Rhamnaceae with Jürgen Kellermann) and of the family Theaceae in New Guinea (with a review of lowland Eurya remaining as a project to complete his taxonomic coverage of the family).

Source: Extracted from:
https://www.pngplants.org/collInfo.php?irn=17789
https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/topics/science/science-research/state-herbarium/our-people/dr-wr-bill-barker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Robert_Barker
Portrait Photo: 1999, M.Fagg, ANBG Photo Collection..

Collecting localities for 'Barker, W.R.' from AVH (2025)

Data from 10,133 specimens