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Herbarium Collections

Herbarium staff and plant family responsibilities

As an outcome from Kew's Science Strategy, the Herbarium staff is organized around three major sections: Monocotyledoneae and Dicotyledoneae Systematic Teams, and Regional Teams.

A full family list, with the name of the team responsible for each family, is available:

For a breakdown of the teams, see the structure below:

The Keeper, Prof. David Mabberley, is assisted by three Assistant Keepers, each one responsible for one section, and the Herbarium Support Team (Anne Morley-Smith, Lydia Elstone, Meriel Biles and Charlotte Couch).

The Monocots section, managed by David Simpson, the Assistant Keeper, is comprised of four teams:

Commelinids

Alismatids & Lilioids

Palms & Pandans

Orchids

Dave Simpson

Tom Cope

Martin Xanthos

Paul Wilkin

Simon Mayo

Anna Haigh

Odile Weber

Laura Reynolds

Lucinda Lay

Bill Baker

Soraya Villalba

Melinda Trudgeon

 

Jeff Wood

David Roberts

Clare Drinkell

Alex Bell

Alec Pridgeon

Also managed within this group are the Specimen preparers , the Spirit Collection and Health and Safety Manager (Emma Tredwell), and the Botanical Artists.

The Dicot Systematic Teams are responsible for naming and curation of material of their families from anywhere in the World. Alan Paton is the Assistant Keeper in charge of the five Systematic teams.

Lamiaceae

Legumes

Malpighiales

Myrtaceae

Rubiaceae

Alan Paton

Gemma Bramley

Lesley Walsingham

 

Gwil Lewis

Brian Schrire

Lulu Rico

Barbara MacKinder

Ruth Clark

Petra Hoffmann

Sue Zmarzty

Gill Challen

 

Eve Lucas

Laura Jennings

Eimear Nic Lughadha

Elizabeth Woodgyer

 

 

Aaron Davis

Sally Dawson

Marie Briggs

 

Other units managed by this section Identification Systems and Morphometrics (Don Kirkup), Conventions and Policy Section (Noel McGough, Natasha Ali, Madeleine Groves, Rose Simpson, China Williams and Alex Bell. Higher Education Team (Colin Clubbe, Barry Blewett, Liz de Keyser, Pat Griggs). IPNI - International Plant Name Index (Rosemary Davies, Katherine Challis and Christine Barker)

The Regional Teams identify all incoming material from their region, and also have curatorial responsibilities for a number of selected families. Rogier de Kok is the Assistant Keeper in charge of the five Regional teams.

Africa Drylands

Africa Wet Tropics

Tropical Asia

Tropical America

Temperate

Henk Beentje

David Goyder

Shahina Ghazanfar

Iain Darbyshire

Kim Hoenselaar

Sally Bidgood

Tim Harris

Frances Crawford

Stuart Cable (SCD)

Emma York (SCD)

Martin Cheek

Tivvy Harvey

Xander Van Der Burgt

Laura Pearce

 

Rogier de Kok

Tim Utteridge

Melanie Thomas

Claire Drinkell

Alison Moore

 

William Milliken

Nicholas Hind

Daniela Zappi

Amelia Baracat

Nicki Biggs

Sarah Edwards

Sue Frisby

 

Sven Landrein

Jo Osborne

Renata Borosova

 

Other units comprised by this section are GIS (Justin Moat, Della Lindsay, Susana Baena, Steve Bachman, the Collections Management Unit (Elizabeth Woodgyer, Angela Bond, Robert Ryan, Sheila Main, Keith Lyons, Lauren Phelan, and Herbarium Digitisation Projects (Anna Saltmarsh, Sarah Phillips, Patricia Malcolm-Tompkins, Sara Barrios).

 

 
 

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