Osborne, Jo
Job Title
Assistant Botanist
Department
Herbarium, Library, Art & Archives
Section
Temperate Regional Team
Science Teams:
Joined Kew:
2006Foreign Language(s):
French (fluent), Portuguese (intermediate)Qualifications & Appointments
BSc (Hons) Biology with a year in Europe. Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine.
MSc Vegetation Survey and Assessment. The University of Reading.
Kew Sustainability Group Representative
Role
Research, curation and vegetation survey for the Temperate Regional Team.
Taxonomic research in Caprifoliaceae and Rosaceae. Curation of Kew’s Herbarium collections including Apiales, Dipsacales, Vitales, Santalales and Caryophyllales. Identification of new herbarium material from temperate regions. Vegetation survey with a focus on conservation and vegetation restoration in the Arabian Peninsula and SW Asia.
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
- 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
- Tropical Plant Families: An Identification Handbook
- 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
Osborne, J. (2011) Species page on Angelica archangelica: http://www.kew.org/plants-fungi/Angelica-archangelica.htm
Cheek, M. & Osborne, J. (2010) Myrianthus fosi (Cecropiaceae) A new submontane fruit tree from Cameroon. In Harvey, Y.; Tchiengué, B. & Cheek, M., The Plants of the Lebialem Highlands, Cameroon, a Conservation Checklist. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 59-64
Ghazanfar, S. & Osborne, J. (2010) Conservation through restoration: study of a degraded gravel plain in South Eastern Arabia. Pakistan Journal of Botany, Special Issue (S.I. Ali Festschrift) 42: 193-204
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
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
