Heather Merrylees

Heather Merrylees is a Research Assistant working on the Australian National Species List for fungi, with support from the Australian Biological Resources Study. She is responsible for curating the Australian Fungi Name Index (AFNI) and the nationally accepted taxonomy for fungi, the Australian Fungi List (AFL).  

Heather's work also includes maintaining a reference collection of mycological literature and providing support to the mycological research community, for example through her contributions to the curation of MycoBank. She brings a background in systematics and data analysis to her work and a keen interest in nomenclature and historic fungaria from her experience working with the global collection at the National Herbarium of Victoria. Enquiries and feedback regarding the National Species List for fungi are welcomed.