Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University of Western Australia
A long career as a professional botanist with an interest in systematics, evolution, identification tools, and explaining the practices, principles and implications of taxonomy to community groups. Now the head of the Western Australian Herbarium in Perth with an adjunct teaching and research position at UWA. Voted by UWA Student Guild Student Choice Award 2015 as one of most inspiring lecturers.
The mysterious Pilostyles is a plant within a plant
Aug 13, 2018 13:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
In 1946, forestry officer Charles Hamilton found something unusual on a shrubby native pea plant growing in Mundaring, near Perth. The pea had strange knobs on its stems, which looked like odd (and very un-pea-like)...
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