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Current seed plant research

Botany Department staff at the Museum are involved in a number of seed plant-related research projects.

  • Convolvulus lineatus from the family Convolvulaceae
    Convolvulaceae systematics

    The research being conducted on Convolvulaceae focuses on hybridisation, biogeography and niche evolution.

  • Preserving plants in alcohol after a long day collecting on Cerro Fabrega in Panama
    Flora Mesoamericana

    Botany staff are part of an international collaborative effort to catalogue the vascular plant diversity of southern Mexico and Central America.

  • View from Bica da Cana in Madeira
    Plant diversity of the Macaronesian region

    Patterns of diversity in the flora of the Macaronesian volcanic oceanic archipelagos will be investigated and used to explore general plant systematics and biogeography questions.

  • Solanum whatenii, a Bolivian species described in 2005
    Solanaceae systematics

    Solanum is one of the most species-rich genera of angiosperms. This research project includes descriptive level taxonomy of the many species and also phylogenetic studies.

  • Specimen of Cardinal creeper, Ipomoea quamoclit, from George Clifford's herbarium
    Significance of historical collections

    Historical collections are particularly important in botany as they contain many type specimens.

  • Arenal Volcano and vegetation in Costa Rica as seen from Monteverde
    Central America conservation tools

    One aspect of this work is to support the Convention on Biological Diversity by producing conservation tools.

  • A new species of Elatostema from Guangxi, south China
    Urticaceae systematics

    This research concentrates on producing a family level phylogeny and documenting and revising species diversity.

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