Cope, Thomas A. [Tom] (retired)
Job Title
Grass Taxonomist
Department
Herbarium
Section
Monocot Systematics
Science Teams:
Joined Kew:
1974Qualifications & Appointments
BSc (Hons. Botany; Manchester University, 1971)
PhD (Manchester University, 1976)
Council, Bot. Soc. Brit. Isles (1984-88)
Editorial Board, Kew Bulletin (1985-98)
Scientific & Horticultural Publications Advisory Committee, RBG Kew
Committee, Kew Wildlife Group.
Role
Systematics and biogeography of Poaceae; botanical monitoring of natural areas at Kew Gardens.
Monographic research on Poaceae for the second edition of ‘Genera Graminum'. Florisitic research on Poaceae with specialist interest in SW Asia (particularly the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt and Pakistan), southern tropical Africa (‘Flora Zambesiaca'), Northeast Africa (‘Flora of Somalia'), Macaronesia (‘Flora of Madeira') and UK (‘BSBI Grass Handbook') and world grass database. Specialist naming of grasses and rushes as BSBI British grass referee, BSBI British rush referee and referee for certain Juncus groups for Société pour l'Echange des Plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin méditerranéen.
Selected Recent Publications
- Cope, T. (2002). Gramineae (in part). In Pope, G.V. (ed). Flora Zambesiaca 10(4): 50-60, 95-180, 182.
- Cope, T. (2005). Gramineae. In Boulos, L. (ed). Flora of Egypt 4: 124-349.
Selected Earlier Publications
- Cope, T. (1995). Poaceae. In Thulin, M. (ed) Flora of Somalia 4. 148-270
- Cope, T. (1998). A synopsis of Eragrostis Wolf (Poaceae) in the Flora Zambesiaca area. Kew Bulletin. 53: 129-164.
- Cope, T. (1998). A synopsis of Sporobolus R. Br. (Poaceae) in the Flora Zambesiaca area. Kew Bulletin 53: 165-172.
- Cope, T. (1999). Gramineae In Pope, G.V. (ed). Flora Zambesiaca 10(2): 1-261
- Cope, T. (2000). Chorology of Grasses – a review; In Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J (eds) Grasses: systematics and evolution. 325-330
