Applications for an Award from the Hansjörg Eichler Research Fund are welcomed from all current financial members of the Australian Systematic Botany Society. The project must contribute to Australian systematic botany (including cryptogams); must be carried out within Australia; and the applicant must be attached to an Australian research institute (in the broadest sense).

The maximum grant awarded will be $2000. Large capital items will not be considered.

Students, recent graduates and newly-established botanists will be given preference. Applications will be assessed on the quality of the applicant and the proposed project. The project should be clearly defined in scope and preferably result in a publication.

Submissions already received may be resubmitted if so desired.

Both the Selection Criteria and a Grant Application Form are available.

The closing dates for applications is
March 14 and September 14 each year

Past recipients of Awards are 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,

March 2008 Award Recipients:

  $4000 was distributed.

Andre Messina (LaTrobe University). A taxonomic assessment of Olearia sect. Asterotriche using morphological, molecular and chemical data.

Robert Edwards (University of Queensland). Systematics of two closely related morphospecies of the broadleaf paperbark complex: Melaleuca argentea and M. fluviatilis.

September 2007 Award Recipients:

$5,828 was distributed

Trevor Wilson (RBG Sydney/University of Sydney). The evolution of bird pollination in the Australian Mintbush (Prostanthera – Lamiaceae)

Adib Jamiran (University of Melbourne). Variation and taxonomy of the legume Paraserianthes, a relative of the Australian acacias.

Helen Jolley (RBG Melbourne/University of Melbourne). Delimiting the species boundaries within Crossidium davidai Catches and Tortula atrovirens (Sm.) Lindb. (Musci: Pottiaceae).

March 2007 Award recipients:

$6,000 was distributed

Margaret Heslewood (RBG Sydney/University of Adelaide). Phylogeography and biogeography of genera in the family Cunoniaceae in Australasia.

Jacinta Burke (University of Melbourne) Systematics and taxonomy of Subtribe Dendrobiinae (Orchidaceae).

Melita Baum (Australian National Univeristy) Variation within the monotypic genus Howittia (Malvaceae) using morphological and molecular data.

Trisha Downing (University of Melbourne) Investigating genetic and morphological variability in the holly grevillea, Grevillea aquifolium (Proteaceae).