Hannah McPherson

Position

Technical Officer (Scientific)

Research student - see Hannah McPherson - Phylogenetics and Evolutionary Dynamics of the tremandroid Elaeocarpaceae

Branch

Science & Public Programs

Section

Plant Diversity

Email

hannah.mcpherson@rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au

Phone

+61 2 9231 8130

Fax

+61 2 9251 7231

Role

Herbarium curation including cryptogams (Freshwater algae, Bryophytes, Hepatics, Lichens, Ferns) and various higher plant families
Taxonomic research including morphological and molecular studies
Database training and data verification

Current research projects

Curation of the lichen family Graphidaceae
Databasing and curating historic lichen collections of Margaret Flockton and F.R.M. Wilson

Research interests

Keywords

cryptogams, systematics, biogeography

Key publications

T.J. Entwisle, M. L. Vis and H. McPherson (2004) Batrachospermum pseudogelatinosum (Batrachospermales, Rhodophyta), a polyecious, paraspecies from Australia and New Zealand. Australian Systematic Botany, 17: 17-28.
H. McPherson, C. Porter, P. D. Rymer, D. M. Crayn and M. Rossetto (2008) Isolation and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci from Tetratheca ericifolia (Elaeocarpaceae). Molecular Ecology Resources [in press].
S. Skinner, H. McPherson and G. M. Towler (2005) A new Zygnemopsis species (Zygnemataceae, Zygnematophyceae), with mature zygospores, from Australia. Telopea 11(1): 91-93.
T.J. Entwisle, M. L. Vis and H. McPherson (2004) Batrachospermum pseudogelatinosum (Batrachospermales, Rhodophyta), a polyecious, paraspecies from Australia and New Zealand. Australian Systematic Botany 17: 17-28.

Technical acknowledgements

Leigh, C. & Ware, C. (2003) The development of the flora, fauna and environment of the Wildlife Garden at the Natural History Museum, London. The London Naturalist, No. 82.
Skinner, S. & Entwisle, T.J. (2004) Non-marine algae of Australia: 5. Macroscopic Chaetophoraceae (Chaetophorales, Chlorophyta). Telopea 10(2).

Botanic Gardens Trust, Sydney, Australia