Botanic Gardens Trust, Sydney, Australia

Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water NSW

Elizabeth Brown

Position

Systematic Bryologist

Branch

Science & Public Programs

Section

Plant Diversity

Email

elizabeth.brown@rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au

Phone

+612 9231 8139

Fax

+612 9241 2797

Research interests

Systematics of Australasian hepatics and Styphelioideae

Keywords

Systematics Australasian Hepatics Styphelioideae

Current research projects

  • Systematics of the Lepidoziaceae with particular reference to Australasia
  • Fossombronia in New South Wales (with Will Cuddy, Hannah Mcpherson, Margaret Heslewood and Christine Cargill)
  • Asterella in Australasia (with Christine Cargill)
  • Catalogue of hepatics in Australia (with Christine Cargill, David Glenny and David Meagher)
  • Wet tropics cryptogams (with Andi Cairns, Christine Cargill and David Meagher)
  • New records for New South Wales and Queensland (with Támas Pôcs)
  • Systematics of the Styphelioideae (with Darren Crayn, Margaret Heslewood and Chris Quinn)
  • Systematics of Lissanthe (Styphelioideae) (with Darren Crayn)

Key publications

  • Brown E.A. & Braggins J.E. (1989) A revision of the genus Riccardia S.F.Gray in New Zealand with notes on the genus Aneura Dum. Journal of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory 66: 1-132.
  • Brown E.A., Ramsay, H.P. & Seur J. (1992) Australian hepatic types at the National Herbarium of New South Wales (NSW) and the Ray Herbarium (SYD). Telopea 5: 67-90.
  • Brown E.A. (1992) Asteraceae. In Harden G.J. (Ed.), Flora of New South Wales, Vol. 3.  New South Wales University Press.  Pp 131-341.
  • Conn B.J., Brown E.A. & Dunlop C.R. (1996) Loganiaceae. In Flora of Australia 28, Gentianales.  Melbourne: CSIRO Australia: 1-72.
  • Powell J.M., Walsh N.G. & Brown E.A. (1996) Leucopogon. In Walsh N.G. & Entwisle T.J. (Eds), Flora of Victoria Vol. 3.  Inkata Press, Melbourne: 494-509.
  • Brown, E.A. & Coveny, R.G. (1999) Chonecolea doellingeri (Nees) Grolle (Chonecoleaceae; Hepaticae); a new record for Australia. Haussknectia 9:57-60.
  • Streiber, N. Brown, E.A. Conn, B.J. & Quinn, C.J. (1999). Systematic studies in Dracophyllum (Epacridaceae) 1. Morphometric analyses of Dracophyllum secundum sensu lato. Telopea 8(3): 381-391.
  • Brown, E.A. & Streiber, N. (1999). Systematic studies in Dracophyllum (Epacridaceae) 2. New species of Dracophyllum in New South Wales. Telopea 8(3): 393-401.
  • Brown, E.A. & Pócs, T. (2000) A new species of Radula Sect. Cavifolium Yamada from Queensland, Australia. Telopea 9(3).
  • Taafe, G., Brown, E.A., Crayn, D.M., Gadek, P.A. & Quinn, C.J. (2001) Generic concepts in Styphelieae: resolving the limits of Leucopogon. Australian Journal of Botany 49: 107-120.
  • Cherry, W., Gadek, P.A., Brown, E.A., Heslewood, M.M. & Quinn, C.J. (2001) Pentachondra dehiscens sp. nov. - an aberrant new member of Styphelieae. Australian Systematic Botany 14: 513-533.
  • Perrie, L.R., Brownsey, P.J., Lockhart, P., Brown, E.A. & Large, M.F. (2001) Biogeography of temperate Australasian Polystichum ferns as inferred from chloroplast sequence and AFLP. Journal of Biogeography 30: 1729-1736.
  • Quinn, C.J., Crayn, D.M., Heslewood, M.M., Brown, E.A. & Gadek, P.A. (2003) A molecular estimate of the phylogeny of Styphelieae (Ericaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 16: 581-594.
  • Crayn, D.M., Brown, E.A. & Powell, J.M. (2003) A revision of Lissanthe (Styphelioideae: Ericaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 16: 595-619.