Dr Tim Hammer

Tim’s research on the Ptilotus genus of wildflowers is delivering new insights into the evolution of the arid Western Australian biota, including how and when groups of plants dispersed to Australia from Asia and their response to their new environment.

An outcome from Tim’s work is that he will be naming two new genera and, for the first time, clearly delimiting the boundaries of this group of genera, which have been taxonomically troubling since Linnaeus. Tim has previously named another genus of plant, Wadithamnus, from preliminary work in his PhD.