Challen, Gill

Job Title

 Assistant Botanist

Department

Herbarium, Library, Art & Archives Directorate

Section

Systematic Teams

Science Teams:

Joined Kew: 1993

Foreign Language(s): French

Qualifications & Appointments

BSc (Hons), Microbiology, University of Surrey, 1973

Role

Research into systematics of West African Euphorbiaceae and Phyllanthaceae.Curation and transactional process management of families within Malpighiales Section, HLAA. Naming of Euphorbiaceae sensu lato worldwide. Field studies in SE Asia and West Africa.

Projects

Selected Recent Publications

  • Challen, G., Vorontsova, M., Schneider, H., Cheek, M.  (2011) Phylogenetically Distinct and Critically Endangered New Tree Species of Phyllanthus from Cameroon ( Phyllanthaceae, Euphorbiaceae s.l.) Systematic Botany , 36(4):

  • Hoffmann, P., Kirkup, D., Galster, A., G. Challen, G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2005). Interactive key to the genera of Euphorbiaceae sensu lato. Available at: http://www.kew.org/herbarium/keys/euphorbs/.

Scientific Research & Data

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