Prance, Ghillean T.
Job TitleHonorary Research Fellow
DepartmentHerbarium
SectionHonorary Research Fellow
Science Teams:
Foreign Language(s): Portuguese, Spanish
Qualifications & Appointments
MA, Oxford
DPhil, Oxford
DSc
Fellow of the Royal Society
Chair, Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest Trust
Chair, Global Diversity Foundation
Role
Research concentrates on the systematics of the plant families Chrysobalanaceae, Caryocaraceae, Dichapetalaceae, Lecythidaceae and Proteaceae. Also conducting ethnobotanical work with various Amazon Indian tribes. Current main interest is to update previous studies on Lecythidaceae, to incorporate recent molecular data and to produce a website combining information from three principle researchers on the family. Presently monographing the genus Foetidia.
Selected Recent Publications
Ya-Ya Huang, Mori, S. A., & Prance, G. T. (2008). A phylogeny of Cariniana (Lecythidaceae) based on morphological and anatomical data. Brittonia 60: 69 – 81.
Prance, G. T. (2008). A revision of Foetidia (Lecythidaceae subfamily Foetidioideae). Brittonia 60: 336 – 48.
Keller, H. & Prance, G. T. (2008). Plants associated with fish by the Guaraníes of Misiones, Argentina. Ethnobotany 20: 1 – 14.
Prance, G. T. (2009). Proteaceae. Flora of the Guianas. Ser A. 27: 18 – 40.
Prance, G. T. (2009). Dichapetalaceae. Flora of the Guianas. Ser A. 27: 99 – 112.
Yakandawala, D., Morton, C. M. & Prance, G. T. (2010).Phylogenetic relationships of the Chrysobalanaceae inferred from chloroplast, nuclear and morphological data. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 97: 259 – 281.
Bebber,D. P, M. A. Carine, J. R. I. Wood, A. H. Wortley, D. J. Harris, G. T. Prance, G. Davidse, T. D. Pennington, N. K. B. Robson & R. W. Scotland (2010). Herbaria are a major frontier for species discovery. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 107 (51): 22169 – 22171.
Prance, G. T. (2011). Monography and biodiversity studies. Pp. 15 – 24, In T. Stuessy & W. Lack (eds), Monographic plant systematics: Fundamental assessment of plant biodiversity. Regnum Vegetabile 153.
Prance, G. T. (2010). A brief history of conservation at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Kew Bull. 65(4): 501 – 508.
Jebb, M. & Prance, G. T. (2011). Five new species of Barringtonia (Lecythidaceae) from Papua New Guinea. Blumea 56: 105 – 112.
Selected Earlier Publications
Prance, G. T. (1972). Chrysobalanaceae: Flora Neotropica 9, 409 pp.
Mori, S. A. & Prance, G. T. (1990). The Zygomorphic-flowered New World Lecythidaceae. Lecythidaceae - Part II. Flora Neotropica 21 (2): 1 – 376.
Prance, G. T. & Plana, V. (1998). The American Proteaceae. Austral. Sys. Bot. 11: 287 – 299.
Morton, C. M., Mori, S. A., Prance, G. T., Karol, K. G., & Chase, M. W. (1997). Phylogenetic relationships of Lecythidaceae: A cladistic analysis using rbcL sequence and morphological data. Amer. J. Bot. 84: 530 – 540.
Prance, G. T. (1996). Islands in Amazonia. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. London B 351: 823 – 833. [Also In: P. R. Grant (ed). (1997). Evolution on Islands. Oxford University Press. 241 – 261].
Prance, G. T. & Sothers, C. S. (2003). Chrysobalanaceae 1: Chrysobalanus to Parinari. Species Plantarum, Flora of the World 9. 1 – 318.
Prance, G. T. & Sothers, C. S. (2003). Chrysobalanaceae 2: Acioa to Magnistipula. Species Plantarum, Flora of the World 10. 1 – 268.
Prance, G. T. (2001). Chrysobalanaceae. Flora de Colombia 19: 1 – 292.
Prance, G. T. (2001). Dichapetalaceae. Flora de Colombia 20: 1 – 62.
Haffer, J. & Prance, G. T. (2001). Climatic forcing of evolution in Amazonia during the Cenozoic: On the refuge theory of biotic differentiation. Amazoniana 16: 579 – 607.
