Goyder, David J.
Job TitleTaxonomic botanist
DepartmentHerbarium, Library, Art and Archives
SectionRegional Teams
Science Teams:
Joined Kew: 1988
Foreign Language(s): basic French & Spanish.
Qualifications & Appointments
BSc (Hons), Univ. Reading, 1981
PhD, Univ. Reading, 1986
Council, Systematics Association (1988-1991).
Role
Diversity and systematics of Apocynaceae; Plant diversity in eastern and southern Africa.
Revising the classification of derived subfamilies of Apocynaceae (principally Asclepiadoideae and Secamonoideae) as a precursor to writing tropical African Flora accounts. ‘Flora of Tropical East Africa’ treatment completed (322 species in 50 genera); ‘Flora Zambesiaca’ account nearing completion.
Input into collaborative phylogenetic studies on Asclepiadoideae; these include attempts to resolve problems of generic delimition in Old and New World groups of the Asclepias complex, and studies into broader scale patterns of evolution in Asclepiadioideae.
Assessment of plant diversity in the dry coastal forest ecosystem of northern Mozambique, with institutional support for our key partners in Maputo.
Providing the botanical component for the Angolan Protected Area Expansion Strategy – a multidisciplinary programme of the Angolan Ministry of the Environment.
Documenting taxonomic novelties in Bolivian Asclepiadoideae arising from major collection programme of J.R.I. Wood.
Projects
- Assessing Plant Conservation Priorities in Angola
- Annotated Checklist of the Plants of Sudan and South Sudan
- Coastal Forests of Northern Mozambique
- Conservation of the Cerrados of Eastern Bolivia
- Eastern African Virtual Herbarium
- e-Floras
- Enhancing human livelihoods and the conservation and restoration of Mozambique’s biodiversity
- Collaborative Fieldwork and Vegetation Studies in Ethiopia
- Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Flora Zambesiaca
- Gateway to African Plants
- Plant Diversity and Conservation in Bolivia
- Systematics course material for horticultural students
- Tropical Plant Families: An Identification Handbook
Selected Recent Publications
Rapini, A., Fontella Pereira, J. & Goyder, D. J. (2011). Towards a stable generic circumscription in Oxypetalinae (Apocynaceae). Phytotaxa 26: 9 – 16.
Timberlake, J., Goyder, D., Crawford, F., Burrows, J., Clarke, G. P., Luke, Q., Matimele, H., Müller, T., Pascal, O., de Sousa, C. & Alves, T. (2011). Coastal dry forests in northern Mozambique. Plant Ecology and Evolution 144: 126 – 137.
Goyder, D. J. (2009). A synopsis of Asclepias (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae) in tropical Africa. Kew Bulletin 64(3): 369 – 399.
- Goyder, D. J., Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G. F. (2008). Apocynaceae. In: E. Figueiredo & G. F. Smith, Plants of Angola/Plantas de Angola, Strelitzia 22: 33 – 40.
- Goyder, D. J., Nicholas, A. & Liede-Schumann, S. (2007). Phylogenetic relationships in subtribe Asclepiadinae (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 94: 423 – 434.
Selected Earlier Publications
Gilbert, M., Goyder, D., Lavranos, J., Liede-Schumann, S., Thulin, M. & Venter, J. (2006). 115. Apocynaceae (incl. Asclepiadaceae). In: M. Thulin (ed.), Flora of Somalia 3: 117 – 197.
Goyder, D. J. (2006). An overview of Asclepiad biogeography. In: S. A. Ghazanfar & H. Beentje (eds), Taxonomy and Ecology of African Plants and their conservation and sustainable use (Proceedings of the XVIIth AETFAT congress). pp. 205 – 214.
Liede-Schumann, S., Rapini, A., Goyder, D.J. & Chase, M. (2005). Phylogenetics of the New World subtribes of Asclepiadeae (Apocynaceae – Asclepiadoideae): Metastelmatinae, Oxypetalinae and Gonolobinae. Systematic Botany 30(1): 183 – 194.
- Goyder, D.J. (2004). An amplified concept of Philibertia Kunth (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae), with a synopsis of the genus. Kew Bulletin 59(3): 415-451.
Goyder, D. J. & Nicholas, A. (2001). A revision of Gomphocarpus R. Br. (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadeae). Kew Bulletin 56: 769 – 836.
