Beauglehole, Alexander Clifford (Cliff)   (1920 - 2002)

In 1970 the Victorian Land Conservation Council (LCC) divided Victoria into 13 regions which were called Study Areas. The LCC investigated and made recommendation concerning land use in these areas. Cliff Beauglehole wrote thirteen books under the heading The Distribution and Conservation of Vascular Plants in Victoria, each written to cover the LCC 13 study areas.

His main herbarium is lodged in MEL, with numerous duplicates elsewhere (e.g. AD, PERTH), with a duplicate set of plants of the Ballarat area going to the University of Ballarat.

Following a stroke early in 2001, his quality of life was very poor and he died in Portland on 19 January 2002.  

Source: Extracted from: A.E.Orchard (1999) A History of Systematic Botany in Australia, in Flora of Australia Vol.1, 2nd ed., ABRS. [consult for source references];
and 'The Field Naturalist Ballarat' website, 12.07.2011.
Margaret Corrick, Obituary, in The Victorian Naturalist, Vol. 119(2) 2002 p.81
Photo: no date, D.Kraehenbuehl, ex Sth.Aust.Nat. Vol.57 No.4 p.59 (1983)

Collecting localities for 'Beauglehole, A.C.' from AVH (2021)

Data from 96,309 specimens