Webinars, seminars and events
The Queensland Herbarium hosts free public webinars/seminars, usually once a month, between 12pm and 1pm. Extra webinars/seminars are frequently scheduled so please check this website for updates.
These seminars will be presented live in the F.M. Bailey Room at the Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mt Coot-tha Road, Toowong (room limits apply) and will be streamed online using Microsoft Teams.
Contact geoffrey.c.smith@detsi.qld.gov.au for further information.
9 March 2026, 12 to 1pm
Some highlights from the Australasian Systematic Botany Society Conference held November 2025
Talks by Frances Guard, Patrick Fahey and Tom May
The Australasian Systematic Botany Society regional conference was hosted at the University of New England, Armidale, in the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales from 2 to 6 November 2025. The conference theme “Next Generation Botany” provided inspiration for a range of talks focusing on new techniques and discoveries covering aspects of Australasian plant taxonomy, systematics, phylogenetics, genomics, biogeography, palaeobotany, and conservation. Presented here are three talks from that conference with some extensions of scope from the original.
- Frances Guard, PhD candidate, University of Southern Queensland:
Marasmius: an Australian perspective. Small things matter. - Patrick Fahey, Senior Scientist (Conservation Genetics), Queensland Herbarium and Biodiversity Science:
A new classification of mallee-boxes (Myrtaceae: Eucalyptus ser. Subbuxeales) from south-eastern Australia. - Tom May, Principal Research Scientist, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria:
Update from Taxonomy Australia on Discovering Biodiversity: A Decadal Plan for Taxonomy and Biosystematics in Australia and New Zealand 2018–2027.