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Rex Bertram Filson (born 1930) is an Australian lichenologist who made major contributions to knowledge of lichens in Australia and Antarctica. Early in his career Filson worked as a carpenter in various places around Australia, and from 1961 to 1963 was employed as a carpenter by the Australian Antarctic Division. This was the start of his career as a lichenologist. In 1964, he was employed by the Royal Botanic Gardens. Employment with the Victorian Department of Crown Lands and Survey followed (1964–1988), first as a seed-collector and finally as senior botanist. During this period, he acquired a Master of Science (1979) and a Doctor of Science (1988) from Monash University. In 1970, Filson was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to compare northern hemisphere with Australian lichens. The National Herbarium of Victoria holds the majority of Filson's collections, over 15,000 specimens, with duplicates distributed around Australian Herbaria including AD, BRI, CANB, HO, NSW and PERTH, with several in overseas herbaria such s MSK, GZU, F and UPS.
Filson Nunatak Filson Nunatak () is a small nunatak east of Trost Peak in the eastern part of the Framnes Mountains, Mac. Robertson Land, Antarctica. It was photographed from Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) aircraft in 1958 and seen b ...
in Antarctica is named in his honour, as is the lichen genus ''
Filsoniana ''Filsoniana'' is a genus of squamulose lichens in the family Teloschistaceae. It has six species. It was circumscribed in 2013 by Ingvar Kärnefelt, Arne Thell, Jae-Seoun Hur, Sergey Kondratyuk, and John Elix following a molecular phylogenetic ...
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Mycobank database MycoBank is an online database, documenting new mycological names and combinations, eventually combined with descriptions and illustrations. It is run by the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute in Utrecht. Each novelty, after being screene ...
shows that he authored some 90 fungi, including: * ''
Buellia foecunda ''Buellia foecunda'' is a lichen in the family Caliciaceae. It was first described in 1966 by Rex Filson from a specimen found on rocks in Mac. Robertson Land Mac. Robertson Land is the portion of Antarctica lying southward of the coast be ...
'' Filson * ''Heterodea beaugleholei'' Filson (now ''
Cladia beaugleholei ''Cladia beaugleholei'' is a lichen in the family Cladoniaceae, found in Australia. It was first described as ''Heterodea beaugleholei'' in 1978 by Rex Filson, from a specimen collected from forest soil in New South Wales. The species epithet ...
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Xanthoparmelia elixii ''Xanthoparmelia elixii'' is a lichen in the family Parmeliaceae, and found in South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the c ...
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