Elspeth Haston

Edinburgh, United Kingdom United Kingdom

Deputy Herbarium Curator at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Education

Research interests: Curation Systems I have been working on developing a linear sequence of angiosperm families based on the APG classifications with David Harris, James Richardson, Peter Stevens and Mark Chase. We have now published the Linear Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (LAPG) III sequence of families. At RBGE, I was responsible for reorganising the herbarium to follow the LAPG II family sequence as well as a more systematic arrangement of the non-angiosperm major groups. Digitisation I am responsible for the digitisation of herbarium specimens and related images and documents. We have been working since 2004 to digitise all our type specimens, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation...