Alexander Clifford Beauglehole Explained

Alexander Clifford Beauglehole
Honorific Suffix:OAM
Other Names:Cliff Beauglehole
Birth Date:26 August 1920
Birth Place:Gorae West, Victoria, Australia
Death Place:Portland, Victoria, Australia
Resting Place:Portland, Victoria, Australia
Fields:Botany, conservation and ornithology.
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Alexander Clifford "Cliff" Beauglehole (26 August 1920 – 19 January 2002) was an Australian farmer, botanist, plant collector and naturalist.

Life

Beauglehole was born in Gorae West, a locality near Portland in the Shire of Glenelg, of south-western Victoria, to the Beauglehole family, which were settlers from Cornwall, and arrived in the area in the nineteenth century. He attended Gorae state primary school but left after attaining his Qualifying Certificate to help his parents on the farm.[1] He soon began making botanical surveys of the Portland area, as well as engaging in other natural history activities such as the study of Australian native bees, surveys of bone deposits in caves and the examination of beach-washed seabirds. By the 1940s, he had purchased the Gorae West farm from his parents and continued mixed farming there until 1968, when his family along with himself moved into Portland, in order to further his botanical career.

It is also during the 1940s that he discovered a new species of triggerplant, that is now commonly called Beauglehole's Trigger-plant; Stylidium beaugleholei.[2] After 1968, Beauglehole was contracted to carry out botanical surveys in national parks and for the Victorian Land Conservation Council, which became his principal occupation. He published on a wide variety of natural history subjects, including the 13 volume The Distribution and Conservation of Vascular Plants in Victoria, written to cover the 73 study areas of the Victorian Conservation Council.[3] [4]

He died from complications after a stroke in 2002[5]

Botanical Collections

Beauglehole was reported to have had a private herbarium of over 23,000 specimens, and his numbering scheme indicates that over his lifetime he collected over 95,000 specimens. The bulk of his plant collections (approximately 69,500 specimens) are held at the National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, with approximately 7,000 specimens held by the Western Australian Herbarium.[6] Roughly another 150 specimens from the Ballarat region are held at the Federation University Herbarium.[7]

Museums Victoria holds 583 of zoological specimens of vertebrates and invertebrates, including type specimens, that were collected by Beauglehole in Victoria, Western Australia, New South Wales, South Australia, Northern Territory, and Queensland.[8]

Published major works

Honours and awards

In 1971, Beauglehole was awarded the Australian Natural History Medallion by the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria,[9] becoming an Honorary Member of the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria in 1982.[10] In 1984 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for his services to "botany, conservation, and ornithology" by the then-Prince Charles[11]

Legacy

The following plants, algae, and insect species have been named in his honour:

Algae

Lichen

Moss

Vascular Plants

Bees

Wasp

Notes and References

  1. Ross . J.H. . Alexander Clifford Beauglehole OAM (26 August 1920–19 January 2002). . Muelleria . 2002 . 16 . 71–79 . 10.5962/p.254661 . 195469738 . free .
  2. Web site: Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet: Stylidium beaugleholei . 2020-11-23 . Government of South Australia, Department of Environment and Water . 2007 .
  3. Web site: Beauglehole, Alexander Clifford (1920 - 2002) . 2014-04-28 . GJ . McCarthy . Encyclopedia of Australian Science . 2004-09-10 .
  4. Web site: Alexander Clifford Beauglehole . 2014-04-28 . James Hamlyn Willis Guide to Records . Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre . 2007-11-15 .
  5. Web site: Beauglehole, Clifford, botanical collector . 2022-10-28 . www.anbg.gov.au.
  6. Web site: The Australasian Virtual Herbarium. . 2020 . The Australasian Virtual Herbarium. Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH) . 10 November 2020.
  7. Web site: Federation University Herbarium. . 2020 . Victorian Collections. 23 November 2020.
  8. Web site: Museums Victoria Collections. . 2020 . Museums Victoria. 24 November 2020.
  9. Book: Annual Report. biodiversitylibrary.org. 2020-11-23. Melbourne, [Vic.] : Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. New series. . 1972–73. 85.
  10. Book: Field Naturalists Club of Victoria: Reports of Recent Activities. biodiversitylibrary.org. 2020-11-23. South Yarra, [Vic.] : The Victorian Naturalist. . 1982. 99.
  11. Web site: Australian Honours Search Facility . 2020-11-23 . Australian Government Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
  12. Womersley . H.B.S. . The Helminthocladiaceae (Rhodophyta) of Southern Australia). . Australian Journal of Botany . 1965 . 13 . 3 . 451–487 . 10.1071/BT9650451.
  13. Wood . R.D. . Characeae of Australia. . Nova Hedwigia . 1972 . 22 . 1–120.
  14. Filson . R.B. . A Revision of The Genus Heterodea Nyl. . The Lichenologist . 1978 . 10 . 1 . 13–25 . 10.1017/S0024282978000043. 86287607 .
  15. Stone . Ilma G. . Revision of Phascum and Acaulon in Australia. . Journal of Bryology . 1989 . 15 . 5 . 745–777 . 10.1179/jbr.1989.15.4.745.
  16. Scott . A.J. . A revision of the Camphorosmioideae (Chenopodiaceae). . Feddes Repertorium . 1978 . 89 . 2–3 . 101–119 . 10.1002/fedr.19780890202.
  17. Book: Jones, D.L.. Australian Orchid Research Volume 2: New Taxa Of Australian Orchidaceae. 1991. Reed Books for Australian Orchid Foundation. 0959538461 . Essendon, Vic..
  18. Web site: Plants of the World Online: Caladenia flavovirens G.W.Carr . 2020-11-23 . Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew .
  19. West . K.R. . Raven . P.H. . Novelties in Australian Epilobium (Onagraceae). . New Zealand Journal of Botany . 1977 . 15 . 2 . 101–119 . 10.1080/0028825X.1977.10432557.
  20. West . K.R.. A new species of Lobelia L. (Campanulaceae: Lobeliodeae) from Victoria and South Australia. . Muelleria . 1992 . 7 . 4 . 525–528.
  21. Tippery . N.P. . Les . D.H. . A New Genus and New Combinations in Australian Villarsia (Menyanthaceae). . Novon: A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature . 2009 . 19 . 3 . 404–411. 10.3417/2007181 . 83567908 .
  22. West . K.R.. Additions to the Orchidaceae of Victoria (the genus Prasophyllum, R.Br). . The Victorian Naturalist . 1942 . 59 . 9 . 8–15.
  23. Web site: Plants of the World Online: Genoplesium nudum (Hook.f.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. . 2020-11-23 . Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew .
  24. Symon . D.E.. A revision of the genus Solanum in Australia. . Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens . 1981 . 4 . 1–367.
  25. Willis . J.H. . Systematic notes on the indigenous Australian flora. . Muelleria . 1967 . 1 . 3 . 117–163 . 10.5962/p.237615 . 198421723 . free .
  26. Gassin . R.J. . Utricularia beaugleholei (Lentibulariaceae: Subgenus Utricularia: Section Pleiochasia), a new species from south-eastern Australia. . Muelleria . 1993 . 8 . 1 . 37–42. 10.5962/p.198491 . 91022810 . free .
  27. Web site: Walker . K. . Native cliffordiella xylocopine (Exoneura (Brevineura) cliffordiella) . 2020-11-23 . PaDIL .
  28. Web site: Walker . K. . Native cliffordiellus hylaeine (Hylaeus (Prosopisteron) cliffordiellus) . 2020-11-23 . PaDIL .
  29. Web site: Specimen T 6780: Sericophorus cliffordi Rayment . 2020-11-23 . Museums Victoria Collections .

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