Hind, D.J. Nicholas
Job TitleHead of Compositae research
DepartmentHerbarium, Library, Art & Archives
SectionRegional Teams
Science Teams:
Joined Kew: 1985
Foreign Language(s): Portuguese; French (working) and Spanish (working).
Qualifications & Appointments
BSc (Hons), Botany, Univ. Reading, 1978
PhD, Univ. Reading, 1989.
Member of the Biological Collections Committee, Linnean Society of London (ongoing).
Associate Editor, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society (ongoing).
Editorial Committee, Curtis's Botanical Magazine (ongoing).
Member of the 'Corpo Editorial', Sitientibus, Série Ciências Biológicas (ongoing).
Member of the 'Conselho Editorial', Rodriguésia – Journal of the Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro (ongoing).
Member of the Advisory Board, Turkish Journal of Botany (ongoing).
Chair, General & Scientific Committees, Margaret Mee Fellowship Programme (ongoing)
Secretary, Linnean Club.
Council member (= Trustee) of the Linnean Society of London (2005-2008).
Steering Committee, Linnean Typification Project (project finished 2007).
Role
Dr Hind has a specialist research interest in New World Compositae, with an overview of the World’s Compositae.
Nicholas has an ongoing specialist interest in the Compositae of the New World, with a particular focus on the Compositae of Brazil (especially NE Brazil and the states of São Paulo, Bahia) and Bolivia, and has undertaken several field trips in these areas. He also maintains an overview of the World’s Compositae, having assisted in several Old World projects (Flora of Egypt, Flora of Mount Jaya, The plants of Mount Kinabalu, etc.). He is frequently called upon to name or confirm determinations of much incoming Compositae material, wherever it comes from, or whatever the source. He has a keen historical interest in the collections and in the Herbarium.
Current floristic research in Latin America includes Flora da Bahia (Compositae), with an aim to write up tribal accounts when invited, the Flora of Brazil (Compositae: selected tribes and detailed checklists), the Flora Fanerogamica do Estado de São Paulo (Compositae: accounts for tribes Astereae, Senecioneae, Eupatorieae [Mikania only], Lactuceae, Anthemideae), and the Flora of Bolivia (Compositae: preliminary checklist and determination of recent collections - see web publication below). Nicholas has also contributed several family accounts for Neotropikey (Compositae, Calyceraceae, Crassulaceae, Dipsacaceae, Valerianaceae) as well as editing many family account submissions.
Outside the Neotropics, Nicholas is still working on the completion of the Compositae account for ‘Flora Zambesiaca’, as a collaborator on the Eupatorieae, Heliantheae s.l. and Mutisieae tribal accounts for the Flora of China (to be published towards the end of 2011). He has also edited the first transcribed draft for the Compositae volume for the restarted Flora of Iraq. In addition to writing up horticulturally important taxa (mostly Compositae, but also sometimes taxa of other families) for Curtis's Botanical Magazine, he referees for several international journals, and is a member of a number of editorial boards and committees. He has also co-authored several recent Compositae accounts for ‘conservation checklists’ in Cameroon.
Nicholas has provided assistance to one PhD student, Benoit Loeuille (at Universidade de São Paulo), focused on Compositae tribe Vernonieae, subtribe Lychnophorinae (completed July 2011), and was ‘co-orientador’ of Mara Magenta during her PhD research on Viguiera (Compositae: Heliantheae - completed in 2006), also at the Universidade de São Paulo.
Nicholas has recently master-minded the move of the Compositae collections (some 8500 boxes of material) from their old home in Wing B to their new compacterised residence in Wing E, as well as providing a new generic classification for the move into their new home. He is in overall curatorial control of the family, and line manages one part-time assistant, Sue Frisby, and task manages two other assistants, one part time and one full time, for work in the Compositae.
Projects
- Compositae of Brazil
- Conservation of the Cerrados of Eastern Bolivia
- Flora of Iraq
- Flora of China
- Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Flora Zambesiaca
- Global Plants Initiative
- Neotropikey
- Margaret Mee Fellowship Programme
- Plant Diversity and Conservation in Bolivia
- Reflora
- Repatriation of Herbarium Data for Northeastern Brazil (Project completed 2009)
- Richard Spruce Collection
- Tropical Plant Families: An Identification Handbook
- Checklist of the Compositae of Bolivia
- Latin American Plants Initiative
- Toucan Cipó
Selected Recent Publications
Shi, Z., Chen, Y. L., Chen, Y. S., Lin, Y. R., Liu, S. W., Ge, X. J., Gao, T. G., Zhu, S. X., Liu, Y., Yang, Q. E., Humphries, C. J., Raab-Straube, E. von, Gilbert, M. G., Nordenstam, B., Kilian, N., Brouillet, L., Illarionova, I. D., Hind, D. J. N., Jeffrey, C., Bayer, R. J., Kirschner, J., Greuter, W., Anderberg, A. A., Semple, J. C., Štěpánek, J., Freire, S. E., Martins, L., Koyama, H., Kawahara, T., Vincent, L., Sukhorukov, A. P., Mavrodiev, E. V. & Gottschlich, G. (2011). Introduction [incl. Glossary and tribal key]. Asteraceae (Compositae). In: Wu, Z. Y., Raven, P. H. & Hong, D. Y. (eds), Flora of China. Volume 20-21 (Asteraceae). Pp. 1 – 8. Science Press (Beijing) & Missouri Botanical Garden Press (St. Louis). (http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/mss/volume20/index.htm)
Gao, T. G., Chen, Y. S., Hind, D. J. N. & Freire, S. E. (2011). Mutisieae. In: Wu, Z. Y., Raven, P. H. & Hong, D. Y. (eds), Flora of China Volume 20–21 (Asteraceae). Pp. 9 – 32. Science Press (Beijing) & Missouri Botanical Garden Press (St. Louis). (http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/mss/volume20/index.htm)
Chen, Y. S. & Hind, D. J. N. (2011). Heliantheae. In: Wu, Z. Y., Raven, P. H. & Hong, D. Y. (eds), Flora of China Volume 20–21 (Asteraceae). Pp. 852 – 878. Science Press (Beijing) & Missouri Botanical Garden Press (St. Louis). (http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/mss/volume20/index.htm)
Chen, Y. L., Kawahara, T. & Hind, D. J. N. (2011). Eupatorieae. In: Wu, Z. Y., Raven, P. H. & Hong, D. Y. (eds), Flora of China Volume 20–21 (Asteraceae). Pp. 879 – 891. Science Press (Beijing) & Missouri Botanical Garden Press (St. Louis). (http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/mss/volume20/index.htm)
Hind, D. J. N. (2011). An annotated preliminary checklist of the Compositae of Bolivia. Version 2. [See www.kew.org/science/tropamerica/boliviacompositae for the web version and www.kew.org/science/tropamerica/boliviacompositae/checklist.pdf for the PDF file of the checklist] c. 750 pp.
Hind, D. J. N. (2009). A new species of Agrianthus (Compositae: Eupatorieae: Gyptidinae) from Bahia, Brazil. Kew Bull. 64(2): 291 – 294.
Onana, J.-M., Cheek, M. Hind, D. J. N. & S. Thomas (2011). Compositae. In: M. Cheek, Y. Harvey & J. M. Onana (eds), The plants of Mefou proposed National Park, Yaoundé, Cameroon. A Conservation checklist. pp. 137 – 139. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & IRAD-National Herbarium of Cameroon.
Milliken, W., Klitgård, B. B., Baracat, A. & Hind, D. J. N. (2010). Neotropikey - esforco internacional abrindo as portas viruais para o conhecimento das plantas neotropicais. In: M. A. Absy, F. D. de Almeida Matos & I. L. do Amaral (eds), Biodiversidade vegetal brasileira: conhecimento, conservação e uso. pp. 25 – 29. Manaus: Sociedade Botánica do Brasil.
Sancho, G., Hind, D. J. N. & Pruski, J. F. (2010). Systematics of Podocoma (Asteraceae: Astereae): a generic reassessment. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 163(4): 486 – 513.
Flann, C., Greuter, W. & Hind, D. J. N. (2010). Cassini’s Compositae genera: A nomenclatural and taxonomic assessment. Taxon 59(4): 1206 – 1244.
Bonifacino, J. M., Robinson, H., Funk, V. A., Lack, H. W., Wagenitz, G., Feuillet, C. & Hind, D. J. N. (2009). Chapter 1. A history of research in Compositae: early beginnings to the Reading Meeting (1975). In: V. A. Funk, A. Susanna, T. F. Stuessy & R. J. Bayer (eds), Systematics, evolution, and biogeography of Compositae. pp. 3 – 44. IAPT, Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, Austria.
Ortiz, S., Bonifacino, J. M., Crisci, J. V., Funk, V. A., Hansen, H. V., Hind, D. J. N., Katinas, L., Roque, N., Sancho, G., Susanna, A. & Tellería, M. C. (2009). Chapter 12. The basal grade of Compositae: Mutisieae (sensu Cabrera) and Carduoideae. In: V. A. Funk, A. Susanna, T. F. Stuessy & R. J. Bayer (eds), Systematics, evolution, and biogeography of Compositae. pp. 193 – 213. IAPT, Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, Austria.
Funk, V. A. & Hind, D. J. N. (2009). Chapter 16. Hecastocleideae (Hecastocleidoideae). In: V. A. Funk, A. Susanna, T. F. Stuessy & R. J. Bayer (eds), Systematics, evolution, and biogeography of Compositae. pp. 261 – 265. IAPT, Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, Austria.
Hind, D. J. N. (2009 onwards). Compositae (Asteraceae). In: Neotropikey. Version 1, March 2009. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.kew.org/science/tropamerica/neotropikey.htm
Selected Earlier Publications
Hind, [D. J.] N. (2010). Plate. 668. Adlumia fungosa. (Papaveraceae). Curtis’s Bot. Mag. 27(1): 36 – 50.
Hind, D. J. N. & Miranda, E. B. (2008). Lista preliminar da familia Compositae na regiao Nordeste do Brasil/Preliminary list of the Compositae in Northeastern Brazil (Repatriation of Kew Herbarium data for the Flora of Northeastern Brazil Series, vol. 4). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Cheek, M. , Beentje, H. & Hind, D. J. N. (2010). Compositae. In: M. Cheek, Y. Harvey & J.-M. Onana (Compilers & eds), The plants of Dom, Bamenda Highlands, Cameroon: A conservation checklist. pp. 121 – 123. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Hind, D. J. N. (2009 onwards). Valerianaceae. In: Neotropikey. Version 1, March 2009. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.kew.org/science/tropamerica/neotropikey.htm
Hind, [D. J.] N. (2008). An introduction to the climbing dicentras – the genus Dactylicapnos in cultivation. Curtis’s Bot. Mag. 25(3): 194 – 206.
Hind, [D.J.] N. (2008). Plate 619. Lotus maculatus. Leguminosae – Papilionoidae. Plant in Peril 30. Curtis’s Bot. Mag. 25(2): 146 – 157.
Hind, D. J. N. [2006](2007). Tribe Mutisieae. In: Asterales (J. Kadereit & C. Jeffrey (vol. eds)) of K. Kubitzki (series ed.), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol. 8, pp. 90 – 123. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York.
Hind, D. J. N. & H. Robinson. [2006](2007). Tribe Eupatorieae. In: Asterales (J. Kadereit & C. Jeffrey (vol. eds)) of K. Kubitzki (series ed.), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol. 8, pp. 510 – 574. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York.
Hind, D. J. N. (2007). Asteraceae (Compositae). In: V. H. Heywood, R. K. Brummitt, A. Culham & O. Seberg, Flowering plant families of the world. pp. 46 – 52. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Hind, D. J. N. (2006). Asteraceae. In: A. M. Giulietti, A. Conceição & L. Paganucci de Queiroz (co-ordinators), Capítulo 1. Nordeste semi-árido: Caracterização geral e lista das fanerógamas. In: A. M. Giulietti, A. Conceição & L. Paganucci de Queiroz (vol. eds), Diversidade e caracterização das fanerógamas do semi-árido Brasileiro. Vol. 1. pp. 57 – 68. Associação Plantas do Nordeste, Recife.
