Rob Cross

Rob Cross is Horticultural Botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens. Rob works on the development of sustainable practices in horticulture, the nomenclature of plants and ex situ conservation methods for Victorian terrestrial orchids.

Projects

• Sustainable horticulture
• Orchid conservation

Publications

Wright, M.M., Cross, R., Cousens, R.D., May, T.W. and McLean, C.B. (2011). The functional significance for the orchid Caladenia tentaculata of genetic and geographic variation in the mycorrhizal fungus Sebacina vermifera s. lat. Muelleria 29, 130–140.

Wright, M.M., Cross, R., Cousens, R.D., May, T.W. and McLean, C.B. (2010). Taxonomic and functional characterisation of fungi from the Sebacina vermifera complex from common and rare orchids in the genus Caladenia. Mycorrhiza 20, 375–390.

Cross, R. and Spencer, R. (2009). Sustainable gardens. CSIRO Publishing,Collingwood.

Dimech, A. M., Ades, P.K., Taylor, P.W.J., Cross R. and Ford R. (2009). Population diversity of Doryanthes excelsa (Doryanthaceae) in eastern Australia.  Cunninghamia 11, 213–219.

Wright, M., Cross, R., Dixon, K. , Huynh, T., Lawrie, A., Nesbitt, L., Pritchard, A., Swarts, N. and Thomson, R. (2009). Propagation and reintroduction of Caladenia. Australian Journal of Botany 57, 373–387.

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