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Born 1969;
An Australian botanist, whose interests include the taxonomy of the genus Melaleuca, the families Santalaceae and Goodeniaceae and how exotic species become naturalised.
He is the curator of the Australian National Herbarium (ANH) in Canberra and employed by the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG).
ANH is jointly managed by CSIRO and ANBG and currently holds about 1.2 million plant specimens.
Lepschi is one of 3 editors of Census of the Vascular Plants, Hornworts, Liverworts and Slime Moulds of the Australian Capital Territory and the author or co-author of many taxonomic papers.
Other projects involve plant nomenclature, focusing on compilation and maintainence of the Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) and the Australian Plant Census (APC).
He started collecting herbarium specimens in 1988.
Source: Extracted from: www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/staff/lepschi_staff.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Lepschi
Portrait Photo: 2010, Fagg, M.
Data from 15,761 specimens