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Josephine (Pina) Milne is an Australian bryologist, and former Collections Manager at the National Herbarium of Victoria at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.

Selected published taxa

 * Austroriella Cargill & J.Milne
 * Austroriella salta J.Milne & Cargill

Journal articles

 * Milne, J. (2000). Gemmae in Dicranoloma serratum (Broth.) Par. Journal of Bryology 22, 70–72
 * Milne, J. (2001). Reproductive biology of three Australian species of Dicranoloma (Bryopsida, Dicranaceae): sexual reproduction and phenology. The Bryologist 104, 440–452
 * Cargill, D.C., and Milne, J. (2013) A new terrestrial genus and species within the aquatic liverwort family Riellaceae (Sphaerocarpales) from Australia. Polish Botanical Journal 58(1), 71-80.
 * Milne, J. (2020). Retracing history through herbarium specimens. Studies in Western Australian History 35, 75–87

Books

 * May, T.W., Milne, J., Shingles, S. and Jones, R.H. (2003). Fungi of Australia,vol. 2B: catalogue and bibliography of Australian macrofungi 2. Basidiomycota p.p. and Myxomycota p.p. CSIRO, Canberra

Book Chapters

 * Milne, J. and Short, M. (1999). Invertebrates in the moss Dicranoloma Ren. In W. Ponder and D. Lunnery (eds), The Other 99%: the conservation and biodiversity of invertebrates, pp. 129–132. Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Mosman

Educational resources

 * Lebel, T., Milne, J. and Veenstra-Quah, A. (2004). Set of 10 posters. Forgotten Flora. Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, South Yarra.
 * Milne, J. and Lebel, T. (2004). Set of 3 CDs. Forgotten Flora: Fungi, Lichen, Bryophytes. Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, South Yarra.

Legacy
The following taxon has been named in her honour:

Dactylasioptera milnae Veenstra & Kolesik

Botanical collections
Milne's plant collections are held in various Australasian herbaria, including the National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, the State Herbarium of South Australia, the National Herbarium of New South Wales, the Queensland Herbarium, the Tasmanian Herbarium, the Australian National Herbarium, and the Western Australian Herbarium.

Education and career
Milne completed a Bachelor of Education in Environmental Studies in 1978, with a double major in Biology and Geography. She then taught biology, science and geography for eleven years at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Secondary College, in Bentleigh, Melbourne. Following this, Milne tutored students in animal biology, genetics and human physiology at Deakin University, before beginning a PhD on the reproductive biology of four species of the moss genus, Dicranoloma.

In April 1997, Milne took up a short-term position at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria databasing moss specimens. She was asked to stay on and began to work on several projects, including with mycologist Tom May (mycologist). This work yielded several publications, including one volume of the Fungi of Australia. Milne worked on flora treatments of mosses with Niels Klazenga, as well as the Forgotten Flora Project alongside Teresa Lebel and Anneke Veenstra.

In 2006, Milne was appointed Collections Manager at the National Herbarium of Victoria. During this time, she was responsible for all aspects of collections management and making the collection accessible to researchers in Australia and around the globe. She was involved in the Managers of Australasian Herbarium Collections (MAHC) group, which develops, promotes and implements collections management policy, guidelines and best practice for herbaria in the region. Milne was also central in securing the herbarium of renowned Australian bryologist Ilma Grace Stone for the National Herbarium of Victoria. Milne retired as Manager Collections in November 2021. She hopes to return to the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria as an honorary associate to continue her research in bryology. Milne was a Councillor of the Australian Systematic Botany Society from September 2010 to September 2011, then Assistant Treasurer from September 2011 to September 2013.

Category:Living people Category:People from Melbourne Category:Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria Category:Botanists active in Australia Category:20th-century Australian botanists Category:21st-century Australian botanists Category:Deakin University alumni Category:Bryologists Category:Women bryologists