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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2026-06-25 human Helen Cohn updated 2026-06-25 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P008084b.htm person Telford Ian R. H. AACR2 1941 Systematic botanist Museum curator Ian Telford is a taxonomic botanist whose main research interests are the biology, systematics and biogeography of the families Cucurbitaceae and Phyllanthaceae. He collaborates in an international project to understand the species limits and relationships of the Australian members of these families. Other research is into the Asteraceae, Lamiaceae and Apiaceae, and the flora of north-eastern New South Wales. Telford joined the Canberra Botanic Gardens in 1966, becoming botanist for the Gardens' herbarium. In 1994, when that herbarium was transferred to the Australian National Herbarium, Telford also moved. After four years he retired to Armidale, N.S.W. He became Honorary Curator of the N.C. W. Beadle Herbarium at the University of New England. 1966 1967 Career position - Gardener, Canberra Boptanic Gardens 1967 1994 Career position - Botanist, Herbarium, Canberra Botanic Gardens 1994 1998 Career position - Botanist, Australian National Herbarium 1998 Career position - Honorary Curator, N.C.W. Beadle Herbarium, University of New England 1998 1998 Life event - Retired 2025 2025 Award - Nancy Burbidge Medal (jointly with Jeremy Bruhl), Australasian Systematic Botany Society The University of New England (1954 - )

Honorary Curator, N.C.W. Beadle Herbarium

 Canberra Botanic Gardens (1930s - 1978)

Botanist 1967 - 1994

 Australian National Herbarium (1984 - )

Botanist 1994 - 1998

 Nancy T. Burbidge Medal, Australasian Systematic Botany Society (2001 - )

Awarded the Medal (jointly) 2025

 'Telford, Ian R. H.', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, History of Australian Science Research Group Telford, Ian R. H. Swinburne University of Technology, Office of the Chief Scientist Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource Section: Ian Telford interviewed by Matthew Higgins in the Australian National Botanic Gardens oral history project 1995 [sound recording] Telford, Ian and Higgins, Matthew Ian Telford interviewed by Matthew Higgins in the Australian National Botanic Gardens oral history project 1995 [sound recording] Australian National Botanic Gardens 1995 Australian National Botanic Gardens oral history project 1995. Resource: Oral History Project for the Gardens Australian National Botanic Gardens Oral History Project for the Gardens Canberra Australian National Botanic Gardens 1995 Resource: Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators Fagg, Murray Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria (CHAH) 2010