Darren Crayn
Director, Australian Tropical Herbarium
Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Studies
James Cook University
Australia
Biography
Professor Crayn’s career has involved studies of the origins, evolution and classification of plants and deals broadly with the questions: how many plant species exist, where do they occur, how are they related and how have they evolved?Professor Crayn’s career has involved studies of the origins, evolution and classification of plants and deals broadly with the questions: how many plant species exist, where do they occur, how are they related and how have they evolved?
Research Interest
Discovering, naming and classifying new plant species and determining the evolutionary relationships among them