Stuart Worboys
Projects
10
Publications
12
Awards
0
Contact Details
Botanist
- +61 7 4232 1758
- stuart.worboys@jcu.edu.au
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Sir Robert Norman Building (E2)
James Cook University Nguma-Bada (Cairns) Campus
PO Box 6811
Cairns QLD 4870
Biography
I'm a field botanist with a broad range of interests, including biodiversity surveys, threatened species conservation, vegetation mapping, weed impacts and myrtle rust/Phytophthora impacts on native plants. I'm also responsible for development and presentation of “Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants” - a series of short courses aimed at teaching plant identification skills to students and interested members of the public. The diverse flora of the Wet Tropics rainforests is the subject of these courses, with focus given to the basic leaf, flower, bark and fruit features that help to distinguish each species.
Research
Projects
Delineation, monitoring and surveillance of priority invasive weeds post TC Jasper
02 Feb 2026 - 30 Jun 2027
Surveys and impact assessments of single watercourse endemic riparian species
01 Jan 2026 - 30 Jun 2027
Habitat condition assessments - Mareeba Wetlands and Mt Spurgeon
01 Nov 2024 - 31 Dec 2024
Assessing the impacts of myrtle rust on forest dynamics and function (Old ID 31154)
01 Oct 2023 - 30 Jun 2027
Island Habitat Monitoring - Vegetation (Old ID 27658)
01 Jul 2022 - 30 Jun 2025
Australian National Botanic Gardens plant Collecting. (Old ID 27684)
23 May 2022 - 30 Jun 2022
Australian Tropical Herbarium Island Habitat Monitoring (Expression of Interest Phase) (Old ID 27202)
01 Jul 2021 - 30 Jun 2024
Quinkan BushBlitz (Old ID 23229)
03 Mar 2017 - 02 Mar 2018
Bush Blitz of vascular plants within Olkola Reserve (Old ID 22219)
01 Jul 2015 - 30 Jun 2016
Activities
Education
M.Sc., James Cook University
1994 - 1999
Associations
Output
Germination of Dracophyllum sayeri F.Muell. (Ericaceae), a vulnerable montane cloud forest endemic
2026
Stevens, Amelia V.; Lautgier, Bree Ann; Hoyle, Gemma L.; Guja, Lydia K.; Worboys, Stuart; Crayn, Darren M.; Sommerville, Karen D. (2026) 'Germination of Dracophyllum sayeri F.Muell. (Ericaceae), a vulnerable montane cloud forest endemic'. Plant Species Biology, 41 . [DOI]
Schrader, Julian; Coleman, David; Abbott, Ian; Bryant, Sally; Buckley, Ralf; Crayn, Darren M.; Gallagher, Rachael V.; Harris, Stephen; Heatwole, Harold; Jackes, Betsy; Kreft, Holger; Mills, Kevin; Kirkpatrick, Jamie; Latz, Peter K.; Neldner, John; Sattler, Cornelia; Visoiu, Micah; Wenk, Elizabeth H.; Woinarski, John C.Z.; Worboys, Stuart; Wright, Ian J.; Zorn, Isabel; Westoby, Mark (2025) 'A-Islands: A Vascular Plant Dataset for Biodiversity Research and Species Monitoring on Australian Continental Islands'. Journal of Vegetation Science, 36 (2). [DOI]
Zuntini, Alexandre R.; Carruthers, Tom; Maurin, Olivier; Bailey, Paul C.; Leempoel, Kevin; Brewer, Grace E.; Epitawalage, Niroshini; Françoso, Elaine; Gallego-Paramo, Berta; McGinnie, Catherine; Negrão, Raquel; Roy, Shyamali R.; Simpson, Lalita; Toledo Romero, Eduardo; Barber, Vanessa M. A.; Botigué, Laura; Clarkson, James J.; Cowan, Robyn S.; Dodsworth, Steven; Johnson, Matthew G.; Kim, Jan T.; Pokorny, Lisa; Wickett, Norman J.; Antar, Guilherme M.; DeBolt, Lucinda; Gutierrez, Karime; Hendriks, Kasper P.; Hoewener, Alina; Hu, Ai-Qun; Joyce, Elizabeth; Kikuchi, Izai A. B. S.; Larridon, Isabel; Larson, Drew A.; de Lírio, Elton John; Liu, Jing-Xia; Malakasi, Panagiota; Przelomska, Natalia A. S.; Shah, Toral; Viruel, Juan; Allnutt, Theodore R.; Ameka, Gabriel K.; Andrew, Rose L.; Appelhans, Marc S.; Arista, Montserrat; Ariza, María Jesús; Arroyo, Juan; Arthan, Watchara; Bachelier, Julien B.; Bailey, C. Donovan; Barnes, Helen F.; Barrett, Matt; Barrett, Russell L.; Bayer, Randall J.; Bayly, Michael J.; Biffin, Ed; Biggs, Nicky; Birch, Joanne L.; Bogarín, Diego; Borosova, Renata; Bowles, Alexander M. C.; Boyce, Peter C.; Bramley, Gemma L. C.; Briggs, Marie; Broadhurst, Linda; Brown, Gillian K.; Bruhl, Jeremy J.; Bruneau, Anne; Buerki, Sven; Burns, Edie; Byrne, Margaret; Cable, Stuart; Calladine, Ainsley; Callmander, Martin W.; Cano, Ángela; Cantrill, David J.; Cardinal-McTeague, Warren M.; Carlsen, Mónica M.; Carruthers, Abigail J. A.; de Castro Mateo, Alejandra; Chase, Mark W.; Chatrou, Lars W.; Cheek, Martin; Chen, Shilin; Christenhusz, Maarten J. M.; Christin, Pascal-Antoine; Clements, Mark A.; Coffey, Skye C.; Conran, John G.; Cornejo, Xavier; Couvreur, Thomas L. P.; Cowie, Ian D.; Csiba, Laszlo; Darbyshire, Iain; Davidse, Gerrit; Davies, Nina M. J.; Davis, Aaron P.; van Dijk, Kor-jent; Downie, Stephen R.; Duretto, Marco F.; Duvall, Melvin R.; Edwards, Sara L.; Eggli, Urs; Erkens, Roy H. J.; Escudero, Marcial; de la Estrella, Manuel; Fabriani, Federico; Fay, Michael F.; Ferreira, Paola de L.; Ficinski, Sarah Z.; Fowler, Rachael M.; Frisby, Sue; Fu, Lin; Fulcher, Tim; Galbany-Casals, Mercè; Gardner, Elliot M.; German, Dmitry A.; Giaretta, Augusto; Gibernau, Marc; Gillespie, Lynn J.; González, Cynthia C.; Goyder, David J.; Graham, Sean W.; Grall, Aurélie; Green, Laura; Gunn, Bee F.; Gutiérrez, Diego G.; Hackel, Jan; Haevermans, Thomas; Haigh, Anna; Hall, Jocelyn C.; Hall, Tony; Harrison, Melissa; Hatt, Sebastian A.; Hidalgo, Oriane; Hodkinson, Trevor R.; Holmes, Gareth D.; Hopkins, Helen C. F.; Jackson, Christopher J.; James, Shelley A.; Jobson, Richard W.; Kadereit, Gudrun; Kahandawala, Imalka M.; Kainulainen, Kent; Kato, Masahiro; Kellogg, Elizabeth A.; King, Graham J.; Klejevskaja, Beata; Klitgaard, Bente B.; Klopper, Ronell R.; Knapp, Sandra; Koch, Marcus A.; Leebens-Mack, James H.; Lens, Frederic; Leon, Christine J.; Léveillé-Bourret, Étienne; Lewis, Gwilym P.; Li, De-Zhu; Li, Lan; Liede-Schumann, Sigrid; Livshultz, Tatyana; Lorence, David; Lu, Meng; Lu-Irving, Patricia; Luber, Jaquelini; Lucas, Eve J.; Luján, Manuel; Lum, Mabel; Macfarlane, Terry D.; Magdalena, Carlos; Mansano, Vidal F.; Masters, Lizo E.; Mayo, Simon J.; McColl, Kristina; McDonnell, Angela J.; McDougall, Andrew E.; McLay, Todd G. B.; McPherson, Hannah; Meneses, Rosa I.; Merckx, Vincent S. F. T.; Michelangeli, Fabián A.; Mitchell, John D.; Monro, Alexandre K.; Moore, Michael J.; Mueller, Taryn L.; Mummenhoff, Klaus; Munzinger, Jérôme; Muriel, Priscilla; Murphy, Daniel (2024) 'Phylogenomics and the rise of the angiosperms'. Nature, 629 :843-850. [DOI]
Hoyle, Gemma L.; Sommerville, Karen D.; Liyanage, Ganesha S.; Worboys, Stuart; Guja, Lydia K.; Stevens, Amelia V.; Crayn, Darren M. (2023) 'Seed banking is more applicable to the preservation of tropical montane flora than previously assumed: A review and cloud forest case study'. Global Ecology and Conservation, 47 . [DOI]
Hoyle, Gemma L.; Stevens, Amelia V.; Guja, Lydia K.; Sommerville, Karen D.; Worboys, Stuart; Crayn, Darren M. (2023) 'Sunlight and red to far-red ratio impact germination of tropical montane cloud forest species'. Australian Journal of Botany, 71 (7):326-339. [DOI]
Liyanage, Ganesha S.; Offord, Catherine A.; Crayn, Darren M.; Guja, Lydia K.; Worboys, Stuart; Sommerville, Karen D. (2022) 'Understanding seed dormancy and germination aids conservation of rainforest species from tropical montane cloud forest: a case study confirming morphophysiological dormancy in the genus Tasmannia'. Australian Journal of Botany, 70 (6):399-408. [DOI]
Low, Yee Wen; Rajaraman, Sitaram; Tomlin, Crystal M.; Ahmad, Joffre Ali; Ardi, Wisnu H.; Armstrong, Kate; Athen, Parusuraman; Berhaman, Ahmad; Bone, Ruth E.; Cheek, Martin; Cho, Nicholas R.W.; Choo, Le Min; Cowie, Ian D.; Crayn, Darren; Fleck, Steven J.; Ford, Andrew J.; Forster, Paul I.; Girmansyah, Deden; Goyder, David J.; Gray, Bruce; Heatubun, Charlie D.; Ibrahim, Ali; Ibrahim, Bazilah; Jayasinghe, Himesh D.; Kalat, Muhammad Ariffin; Kathriarachchi, Hashendra S.; Kintamani, Endang; Koh, Sin Lan; Lai, Joseph T.K; Lee, Serena M.L.; Leong, Paul K.F.; Lim, Wei Hao; Lum, Shawn K.Y.; Mahyuni, Ridha; McDonald, William J.F.; Metali, Faizah; Mustaqim, Wendy A.; Naiki, Akiyo; Ngo, Kang Min; Niissalo, Matti; Ranasinghe, Subhani; Repin, Rimi; Rustiami, Himmah; Simbiak, Victor I.; Sukri, Rahayu S.; Sunarti, Siti; Trethowan, Liam A.; Trias-Blasi, Anna; Vasconcelos, Thais N.C.; Wanma, Jimmy F.; Widodo, Pudji; Wijesundara, Douglas Siril A.; Worboys, Stuart; Yap, Jing Wei; Yong, Kien Thai; Khew, Gillian S.W.; Salojärvi, Jarkko; Michael, Todd P.; Middleton, David J.; Burslem, David F.R.P.; Lindqvist, Charlotte; Lucas, Eve J.; Albert, Victor A. (2022) 'Genomic insights into rapid speciation within the world’s largest tree genus Syzygium'. Nature Communications, 13 . [DOI]
Renner, Matt A.M.; Worboys, Stuart (2018) 'Two additional Chiastocaulon species (Marchantiophyta: Plagiochilaceae) from the Wet Tropics Bioregion of north-eastern Queensland'. Australian Systematic Botany, 31 (6):487-494. [DOI]
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Burgess, Treena I.; White, Diane; McDougall, Keith M.; Garnas, Jeff; Dunstan, William A.; Català, Santiago; Carnegie, Angus J.; Worboys, Stuart; Cahill, David; Vettraino, Anna-Maria; Stukely, Michael J.C.; Liew, Edward C.Y.; Paap, Trudy; Bose, Tanay; Migliorini, Duccio; Williams, Briony; Brigg, Frances; Crane, Colin; Rudman, Timothy; Hardy, Giles E.St.J. (2017) 'Distribution and diversity of Phytophthora across Australia'. Pacific Conservation Biology, 23 (2):150-162. [DOI]
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Worboys, S.J.; Jackes, B.R. (2005) 'Pollination processes in Idiospermum australiense (Calycanthaceae), an arborescent basal angiosperm of Australia's tropical rain forests'. Plant Systematics and Evolution, 251 (2-4):107-117. [DOI]
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Worboys, Stuart J. (2003) 'Polycarpelly in Idiospermum australiense (Calycanthaceae)'. Austrobaileya, 6 (3):553-556.
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Edwards, Will; Gadek, Paul; Weber, Ellen; Worboys, Stuart (2001) 'Idiosyncratic phenomenon of regeneration from cotyledons in the idiot fruit tree, Idiospermum australiense'. Austral Ecology, 26 (3):254-258. [DOI]
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU