Atkins, Sandy (Retired)

Job Title

Honorary Research Associate

Department

Herbarium

Section

Honorary Research Associate

Science Teams:

Foreign Language(s): French, Portuguese

Qualifications & Appointments

HND Microbiology

Role

Floristics, baseline taxonomy, diversity, biogeography and conservation of Neotropical Verbenaceae; curation of herbarium specimens.

Research into Verbenaceae, especially in the Neotropics, with some responsibilities relating to incoming and outgoing Neotropical specimens, and the repatriation of herbarium data to Northeast Brazil. Research output has included a baseline monograph on the genus Stachytarpheta in Brazil (79 species); accounts for the ‘Flora of Paraguay', ‘Flora of Thailand' and ‘Flora Malesiana', and a recently completed account of the family for Kubitzki's Families and Genera of Vascular Plants.

Projects

Selected Recent Publications

  • Atkins, S. (2003). Stachytarpheta Vahl. In Programa ProFlora (ed) Flora fanerogamica Argentina. Fasciculo 84. 253. Verbenaceae, parte 1. Subfamilia I. Verbenoideae, parte 1. Tribu II. Lantaneae, parte A. Cordoba, Argentina: ProFlora Conicet. 42-43.
  • Atkins, S. (2004). Verbenaceae. In Kadereit, J.W. (ed) The families and genera of vascular plants, 7, Lamiales. Berlin: Springer. 449-468.
  • Atkins, S. (2004). Verbenaceae. In Smith, N., Mori, S.A., Henderson, A., Stevenson, D.W. & Heald, S.V. (eds) Flowering plants of the Neotropics. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 387-390.
  • Atkins, S. & de Kok, R. (2004). Viticoideae. In Harley, R.M., Atkins, S., Budantsev, A.L., Cantino, P.D., Conn, B.J., Grayer, R., Harley, M.M., de Kok, R., Krestovskaja, T., Morales, R., Paton, A.J., Ryding, O. & Upson, T. (2004). Labiatae. In Kadereit, J.W. (ed) The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, 7, Lamiales. Berlin: Springer Verlag. 167-282.
  • Atkins, S. (2005). A revision of the genus Stachytarpheta in Brazil. Kew Bull. 60(2): 161-272.

Selected Earlier Publications

  • Atkins, S., Alves, R.J.V. & Kolbeck, J. (1996). Plants in Peril, 23 - Stachytarpheta sellowiana. Curtis Bot. Mag.13(1): 33-35.
  • Atkins, S. (1996). Holmskioldia sanguinea Verbenaceae. Curtis Bot. Mag. 13(2): 79-81.
  • Atkins S. (1997). Two new species of Callicarpa (Verbenaceae) from Brunei. Kew Bull. 52: 227-230.
  • de Kok R. & Atkins, S. (1997). The genus Archboldia E. Beer & H.J. Lam is put into the synonymy of Clerodendrum L. (Labiatae). Kew Bull. 52: 503-504.
  • Atkins, S. (1998). Verbenaceae. In Dubs, B. (ed) Prodromus Florae Matogrossensis. Switzerland: Dubs. 294-297, 438-440.

Scientific Research & Data

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