Leon Perrie is a botany curator at the Te Papa museum who has done research that focuses on New Zealand’s ferns: their numbers, locations and identification. 

He has used DNA analysis to address this work and such questions as how ferns are related to one another and to species overseas.  Leon is currently working on accounts for the online eFlora of New Zealand. He also works on Pacific ferns, and has studied other plant groups, particularly Pseudopanax (lancewoods and five fingers).

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