I'm an identification botanist and taxonomist. I have been with the WA Herbaium for the past 25 years. My initial role with the Herbarium was as a technical assistant, mostly working on WA's bioprospecting project and Regional Forest Assessments, among other survey projects. The past 15 years I have been primarily employed as an identification botanist. In this position, I'm identifying plants from a variety of organisations, either internal identification within the Department of Parks and Wildlife or from environmental consultants, the Department of Agriculture and the general public. I'm also involved in confirming rare and priority taxa for Western Australia. In addition, I'm involved in taxonomy, describing new species from a variety of plant families, but primarily from the genus Ptilotus.