Australian Tropical Herbarium

Matt Barrett

Research Fellow
matt.barrett@jcu.edu.au

Darren Crayn

Director, Australian Tropical Herbarium
darren.crayn@jcu.edu.au

Mel Harrison

Research Operations Officer
melissa.harrison@jcu.edu.au

Stuart Worboys

Botanist
stuart.worboys@jcu.edu.au

Frank Zich

Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
frank.zich@jcu.edu.au

Mountain plant conservation (Old ID 26539)

Darren Crayn

01 Jul 2019 - 30 Jun 2024

This project will enable us to secure the future of Australia's climate-threatened tropical mountain...

Improving Kava production efficiency through genetics (Old ID 26574)

Darren Crayn

01 Jul 2019 - 30 Jun 2020

This project aims to improve the efficiency of kava (Piper methysticum) production by helping develo...

Island Arks GBR Regional Ecosystem mapping (Old ID 27874)

Darren Crayn

02 Jan 2023 - 30 Jun 2025

The Queensland Government has committed to expand Queensland’s protected area estate on islands in t...

Genomics for Australian Plants – Phylogenomics Project (Old ID 26702)

Darren Crayn

01 Jan 2020 - 30 Jun 2022

The Genomics for Australian Plants initiative aims to develop genomics resources to enhance our unde...

Micropropagation of Eucalyptus cloeziana chemovar. (Old ID 25089)

Darren Crayn

30 Jun 2018 - 30 Jun 2023

This project will establish a methodology to produce clonal plants of a eucalypt that is being trial...

Quinkan BushBlitz (Old ID 23229)

Darren Crayn

03 Mar 2017 - 02 Mar 2018

This project involves surveys on remote sandstone country on Cape York, with the purpose of discover...

Patterns of diversification and trait evolution in Australasian orchids

Darren Crayn

05 Jun 2023 - 02 Apr 2026

This PhD research explores patterns of diversification and trait evolution in Australasian orchids b...

Phylogenomic insights into the spatio-temporal evolution of Australasian Bulbophyllum (Orchidaceae) (Old ID 23424)

Darren Crayn

01 Jun 2017 - 31 Dec 2017

Bulbophyllum (Orchidaceae) comprises one of the three largest plant genera with more than 2000 speci...

Phylogenomic insights into the spatio-temporal evolution of Australasian Bulbophyllum (Orchidaceae) (Old ID 26479)

Darren Crayn

12 Jun 2019 - 31 Dec 2019

Domestic travel to Model-based species delimitation workshop to be held in Canberra 12-14 June, 2019...

Analysis on the Variation of Australian Garcinia using Diversity Array Technology (Old ID 23206)

Darren Crayn

01 Mar 2017 - 30 Nov 2017

Garcinia (Clusiaceae) is one of the common genera in the tropics, including Australia. The Plant Lis...

Speciation with gene flow on Lord Howe Island

2011
National Academy of Sciences
Researchers:Darren Crayn

Phylogeny, adaptive radiation, and historical biogeography in Bromeliaceae: insights from an eight-locus plastid phylogeny

2011
Botanical Society of America
Researchers:Darren Crayn

Plant DNA barcodes can accurately estimate species richness in poorly known floras

2011
Public Library of Science
Researchers:Darren Crayn

Elaeocarpus hylobroma (Elaeocarpaceae): a new species endemic to mountain tops in north-east Queensland, Australia

2012
Springer
Researchers:Darren Crayn

Cenozoic extinction and recolonization in the New Zealand flora: the case of the fleshy-fruited epacrids (Styphelieae, Styphelioideae, Ericaceae)

2013
Elsevier
Researchers:Darren Crayn

Supermatrices, supertrees and serendipitous scaffolding: Inferring a well-resolved, genus-level phylogeny of Styphelioideae (Ericaceae) despite missing data

2012
Elsevier
Researchers:Darren Crayn

Leucopogon extremus (Styphelieae, Styphelioideae, Ericaceae), a remarkable new species that expands the morphological circumscription of Leucopogon sens. str.

2012
CSIRO Publishing
Researchers:Darren Crayn

Phylogenetic classification of Ericaceae: molecular and morphological evidence

2002
New York Botanical Garden Press
Researchers:Darren Crayn

Adaptive radiation, correlated and contingent evolution, and net species diversification in Bromeliaceae

2014
Elsevier
Researchers:Darren Crayn