Borosova, Renata
Job TitleAssistant Botanist
DepartmentHerbarium, Library, Art & Archives
SectionRegional Teams and Monocot Systematics
Science Teams:
Joined Kew: 2007
Foreign Language(s): Slovakian, Czech, basic Russian & Hungarian
Qualifications & Appointments
BSc (Hons) Ecology and Environmental Science, Nature Protection and Landscape Ecology, Technical Univ. Zvolen, Slovakia, 2003
Role
Research & curation of herbarium collections for the Temperate regional team and Orchidaceae systematics. Vegetation survey work.
Responsibility for curation of families within Temperate Team and of the Orchidaceae Herbarium. Preparing specimens for loans to other institutions. Identification of incoming material from Temperate regions and verifying specimens from the gardens. Databasing and imaging for the Global Plant Initiative and for outgoing image requests from other institutions including specimens from Lindley Herbarium. Databasing of all incoming CITES material. Vegetation survey work of introduced plants in South Georgia. Botanical fieldwork in Kyrgyzstan, Ireland, United Arab Emirates, China. Writing Rosaceae account for Flora of Pakistan.
Projects
- Central Asia - diversity hotspot
- Checklist of the Plants of the Arabian Peninsula
- Collecting the Flora of Kyrgyzstan
- Flora of Iraq
- Flora of Pakistan - Rosaceae account
- Flora of China
- Halophytes of SW Asia
- Living Collection Virtual Herbarium
- Electronic cataloguing and imaging of monocot type specimens
- Reinforcing cooperation between the Royal Botanic Garden of Jordan and the European Research Area (BOT-ERA)
- Systematics course material for horticultural students
- Systematics of Caprifoliaceae
- Seed Conservation in the UK Overseas Territories
- Invasive Species in the UK Overseas Territories
- Survey of Introduced Vascular Plants in South Georgia
Selected Recent Publications
Yang, Q.; Landrein, S.; Osborne, J. & Borosova, R. (2011) Caprifoliaceae. In Wu, Z. Y., P. H. Raven & D. Y. Hong, eds. Flora of China. Vol. 19 (Cucurbitaceae through Valerianaceae, with Annonaceae and Berberidaceae). Science Press, Beijing, and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis. 616-641; http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=10159
Borosova, R. (2010) Species page on Papaver rhoeas: http://www.kew.org/plants-fungi/Papaver-rhoeas.htm
Osborne, J.; Borosova, R.; Briggs, M. & Cable, S. (2009). Survey for baseline information on introduced vascular plants: South Georgia. South Atlantic Invasive Species Project (SAISP), co-ordinated by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and funded by the European Commission through EDF-9. http://www.kew.org/gis/downloads/South%20Georgia%20Introduces%20Vascular%20Plants%202009.pdf
Landrein, S.; Borosova, R.; Osborne, J.; Shah, M.; Rajput, M.T.M.; Tahir, S.S. & Zielinski, J. (2009). Flora of Pakistan No. 216. Rosaceae (I) – Potentilleae & Roseae. Jointly published by the Institute of Plant Conservation, University of Karachi and Missouri Botanical Press
