Ian R H Telford
Honorary Curator, NCW Beadle Herbarium (NE), Faculty of Arts and Sciences, School of Environmental and Rural Sciences
Contact
| Email: | itelford@une.edu.au |
| Room: | S2 , Herbarium |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2875 (or +61 2 6773 2875 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3283 |
Herbarium curation
- Ensuring best practice in herbarium management
- Application of systematic and nomenclatural changes to the collection
- Leading a team of volunteers performing specimen preparation and data entry
Teaching and training
- Instructing undergraduate and post-graduate students in field collection and herbarium protocol and techniques
- Visiting school groups and university open days
- Carrick teaching excellence award 2006
Community outreach
- Plant identifications
- Assisting naturalist and native plant enthusiast groups
- Herbarium displays for open days
Research interests
- My main research interests are in the biology, systematics and biogeography of Cucurbitaceae. As part of an international group studying this family, I have contributed to the understanding of relationships of Australia’s endemic Cucurbits
- Another area of interest is Phyllanthaceae. Again, an international team is studying the systematics of the family
- Increasing knowledge of the flora of north-eastern New South Wales, at present with its biodiversity highly underestimated, is also a major area of concern of our herbarium team
- I prepare my own scientific line drawings
Current research projects include:
- Species and other taxonomic limits in Phyllanthaceae in Australia
- Biogeography and evolution of Sicyos (Cucurbitaceae)
- Revision of Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae) in Australia
- Species delimitation in Phebalium and Philotheca (Rutaceae) in north-eastern N.S.W.
Some recent refereed publications:
Cayzer, L.W., Crisp, M.D. & Telford, I.R.H. (2005) Cladistic analysis and revision of Billardiera (Pittosporaceae), Australian Syst. Bot. 17: 83–125.
Copeland, L.M. & Telford, I.R.H. & (2007) Pimelea cremnophila (Thymelaeaceae) a new species from the New England Tableland of north-eastern New South Wales, Telopea 11: 111–116.
Pruesapan, K., Telford, I.R.H., Bruhl, J.J., Draisma, S.G.A. & van Welzen, P.C. (in press) Delimitation of Sauropus (Phyllanthaceae).based on plastid matK and nuclear ribosomal ITS DNA sequence data, Annals Bot.
Schaefer, H., Telford, I.R.H. & Renner, S.S. (2008) Austrobryonia (Cucurbitaceae), a new Australian endemic genus, is the closest living relative to the Eurasian and Mediterranean Bryonia and Ecballium, Syst. Bot. 33: 125–132.
Telford, I.R.H. (2005): Cucurbitaceae, in G.Staples & D.Herbst (eds), Tropical Gardens, Bishop Museum & Uni. of Hawaii Press.
Telford, I.R.H. & Copeland, L.M. (2006) Philotheca papillata (Rutaceae) a new endemic species from north-eastern New South Wales, Telopea 11: 105–110.
Telford, I.R.H. (2007) Hernandiaceae, Fl. Australia 2, 224–232. CSIRO Publications.