Peter Jobson Australian Native Plants Society Biennial Conference 2026

Peter Jobson

Information Botanist, National Herbarium of New South Wales. Peter has been a plant taxonomist working on the Australian flora for the past 35 years. He has conducted research on Acrotriche (Ericaceae), Dendrobium (Orchidaceae) and Dillwynia (Fabaceae). He has also been involved in co-authoring papers on Solanum (Solanacaeae), Olearia (Asteraceae), and others. He has tried his hands at many roles over the years: as a plant collector for a joint Royal Botanic Gardens of Victoria and pharmaceutical research company project, checking identifications on specimens for the initial Australasian Virtual Herbarium project for the National Herbarium of NSW, working as a plant identifier for environmental consultancies in Perth, Western Australia, as the Senior Botanist for the Northern Territory Herbarium, Alice Springs for almost 10 years, and now as Information Botanist and team leader for Illustration & Botanical Identification Service. For almost 10 years he was President of the Plant Society, Alice Springs.