Neville Grant Walsh (born 1956) has worked at the

National Herbarium of Victoria The National Herbarium of Victoria (Index Herbariorum code: MEL) is one of Australia's earliest herbaria and the oldest scientific institution in Victoria. Its 1.56 million specimens of preserved plants, fungi and algae—collectively known ...

from 1977. Walsh and Don Foreman authored the first volume of ''Flora of Victoria'', authoring a further three with Timothy Entwisle, and Volume 4 He has published the name of 112 new species of plants in more than 80 peer-reviewed papers. He has served on the working group (vascular plants) for the

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH) is an association of the leaders of herbaria in Australia and New Zealand. It is governed by a constitution. It endorses the taxonomy and nomenclature of the Australian Plant Census, which is the so ...

since 2005, and in 2010 served as its taxonomic advisor on the

Campanulaceae The family Campanulaceae (also bellflower family), of the order Asterales, contains nearly 2400 species in 84 genera of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and rarely small trees, often with milky sap. Among them are several familiar garden plants bel ...

family. He has also contributed his knowledge of plant communities in the

Victorian Alps The Victorian Alps, also known locally as the High Country, is a large mountain system in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria. Occupying the majority of eastern Victoria, it is the southwestern half of the Australian Alps (the othe ...

to the Mountain Invasion Research Network. He retired in 2023, but maintains an active interest in Australian plant taxonomy and ecology.

Some taxa authored

* '' Boronia citrata'' N.G.Walsh, Muelleria 8(1): 21 (1993). * ''

Calotis pubescens ''Calotis pubescens'' is a species of daisy endemic to Australia and found in New South Wales and Victoria. It was first described in 1867 by Ferdinand von Mueller Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (; 30 June 1825 – 10 Oct ...

'' (F.Muell. ex Benth.) N.G.Walsh & K.L.McDougall, Muelleria 16: 44 (2002). * ''

Cassinia rugata ''Cassinia rugata'', commonly known as wrinkled dollybush, or wrinkled cassinia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a spreading to erect shrub with hairy, slightly sticky bran ...

'' N.G.Walsh, Muelleria 7(2): 141 (1990). * '' Centipeda aotearoana'' N.G.Walsh, Muelleria 15: 55 (2001). * See also :Taxa named by Neville Grant Walsh

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Walsh, Neville Grant 20th-century Australian botanists Living people 1956 births 21st-century Australian botanists