Person

Telford, Ian R. H. (1941 - )

Born
1941
Occupation
Museum curator and Systematic botanist

Summary

Ian Telford is a taxonomic botanist whose main research interests are the biology, systematics and biogeography of the families Cucurbitaceae and Phyllanthaceae. He collaborates in an international project to understand the species limits and relationships of the Australian members of these families. Other research is into the Asteraceae, Lamiaceae and Apiaceae, and the flora of north-eastern New South Wales. Telford joined the Canberra Botanic Gardens in 1966, becoming botanist for the Gardens' herbarium. In 1994, when that herbarium was transferred to the Australian National Herbarium, Telford also moved. After four years he retired to Armidale, N.S.W. He became Honorary Curator of the N.C. W. Beadle Herbarium at the University of New England.

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Chronology

1966 - 1967
Career position - Gardener, Canberra Boptanic Gardens
1967 - 1994
Career position - Botanist, Herbarium, Canberra Botanic Gardens
1994 - 1998
Career position - Botanist, Australian National Herbarium
1998 -
Career position - Honorary Curator, N.C.W. Beadle Herbarium, University of New England
1998
Life event - Retired
2025
Award - Nancy Burbidge Medal (jointly with Jeremy Bruhl), Australasian Systematic Botany Society

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Resources

  • 'Telford, Ian R. H. (1941 - )', Oral History Project for the Gardens, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, 1995, https://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/about/history/oral-history/telford-1995.html. Details

Resource Sections

  • Telford, Ian and Higgins, Matthew, 'Ian Telford interviewed by Matthew Higgins in the Australian National Botanic Gardens oral history project 1995 [sound recording]', in Australian National Botanic Gardens oral history project 1995., Australian National Botanic Gardens, 1995. Details

See also

Helen Cohn

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