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

State of the Wet Tropics Report (Old ID 31177)

Darren Crayn

01 Jun 2023 - 31 May 2024

The Wet Tropics Management Authority produces a thematic annual State of the Wet Tropics report. Thi...

Australian National Botanic Gardens plant Collecting. (Old ID 27684)

Darren Crayn

23 May 2022 - 30 Jun 2022

Recently, the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) suffered significant losses of propagated m...

Assessing the impacts of myrtle rust on forest dynamics and function (Old ID 31154)

Darren Crayn

01 Oct 2023 - 30 Jun 2027

This project investigates the consequences for environmental health of myrtle rust – an exotic funga...

Securing the future of Australia’s threatened tropical mountain flora for science and society (Old ID 25045)

Darren Crayn

01 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2023

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

Saving the unique plants ofAustralia's tropical mountaintops through understanding the threats (Old ID 22210)

Darren Crayn

01 Feb 2016 - 01 Sep 2017

This project will improve our understanding of the extinction risk to Australia's unique tropical mo...

Making headway with Ericaceae – a contribution toward a Flora of Australia account of Epacridoideae (Old ID 24706)

Darren Crayn

01 Jul 2018 - 30 Jun 2021

Generic boundaries in the predominantly Australian subfamily Epacridoideae (Ericaceae; c. 580 Austra...

Progressing a Flora of Australia treatment of Ericaceae subfamily Epacridoideae (Old ID 27243)

Darren Crayn

01 Jul 2021 - 30 Sep 2024

Generic boundaries in the predominantly Australian Ericaceae subfamily Epacridoideae (c. 580 Austral...

Bush Blitz of vascular plants within Olkola Reserve (Old ID 22219)

Darren Crayn

01 Jul 2015 - 30 Jun 2016

This project will undertake targeted surveys of plants within the Olkola and Alwal National Parks, C...

Island Habitat Monitoring - Vegetation (Old ID 27658)

Darren Crayn

01 Jul 2022 - 30 Jun 2025

Islands, particularly the remote or less-accessible ones, have very poor inventories of species and ...

Next generation systematics for Nepenthes Pitcher Plants (Old ID 22790)

Darren Crayn

01 Jul 2016 - 01 Jan 2020

The carnivorous pitcher plant genus Nepenthes comprises c.160 species distributed throughout the Sou...

An updated estimate of intergeneric phylogenetic relationships in the Australian Vitaceae

2007
National Research Council
Researchers:Darren CraynBetsy Jackes

Multiple origins of Crassulacean acid metabolism and the epiphytic habit in the Neotropical family Bromeliaceae

2004
National Academy of Sciences
Researchers:Darren Crayn

The influence of environment and life-history traits on the distribution of genes and individuals: a comparative study of 11 rainforest trees

2009
Wiley-Blackwell
Researchers:Darren Crayn

Elaeocarpus sedentarius sp. Nov. (Elaeocarpaceae) - morphometric analysis of a new, rare species from eastern Australia

2008
CSIRO Publishing
Researchers:Darren Crayn

Additions to Lissanthe (Styphelioideae: Ericaceae) in Western Australia: L. synandra sp. nov. and L. pleurandroides comb. nov.

2005
CSIRO Publishing
Researchers:Darren Crayn

Isolation and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci from Tetratheca ericifolia (Elaeocarpaceae)

2009
Wiley-Blackwell
Researchers:Darren Crayn

A molecular estimate of the phylogeny of Styphelieae (Ericaceae)

2003
CSIRO Publishing
Researchers:Darren Crayn

A revision of Lissanthe (Styphelioideae: Ericaceae)

2003
CSIRO Publishing
Researchers:Darren Crayn