Vollesen, Kaj

Job Title

Honorary Research Fellow

Department

Herbarium, Library, Art and Archives

Section

Science Teams:

Joined Kew: 1987

Foreign Language(s): Danish, Swedish, basic French and German, reasonably good Swahili

Qualifications & Appointments

MSc: Univ. of Copenhagen, 1973

PhD: Univ. of Copenhagen, 1981

Role

Systematics of Acanthaceae Flora Zambesiaca, general floristic and ecological work in East and Northeast Africa, working with the MSB project in East Africa.

Writing accounts of Acanthaceae for Flora Zambesiaca. General floristic and ecological work in poorly known regions of Tanzania and Ethiopia. Assisting the MSB Project's work in East Africa, especially Tanzania
 

Projects

Selected Recent Publications

  • Darbyshire, I, Kelbessa, E. & Vollesen, K. (2010). Flora of Tropical East Africa. Acanthaceae (Part 2). 287- 756. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

  • Vollesen, K. (2008). Flora of Tropical East Africa. Acanthaceae (Part 1). 1- 286. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

  • Mcdade, Daniel, T. F., Kiel, C. A. & Vollesen, K. (2005). Phylogenetic Relationships among Acantheae (Acanthaceae): Major Lineages Present Contrasting Patterns of Molecular Evolution an Morphological Differentation. Systematic Botany 30: 834 – 862.

  • Friis, I & Vollesen, K. (2005). Flora of the Sudan-Uganda border area east of the Nile. II. Catalogue of vascular plants, 2nd part, vegetation and phytogeography. - Biologiske Skrifter 51 (2): 390-855.

  • Vollesen, K. (2004). Three new species of Blepharis (Acanthaceae). Kew Bull. 57: 451-457.
  • Vollesen, K. (2004). A “new” species of Whitfieldia (Acanthaceae) from East Africa. Kew Bull. 59: 123-127.

Selected Earlier Publications

  • Vollesen, K. (1980). Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of the Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania. Opera Botanica 59: 1-117.
  • Vollesen, K. (1991). A revision of the African genus Sclerochiton (Acanthaceae: Acantheae). Kew Bull. 46: 1-50.
  • Vollesen, K. (1996). Fam 82. Malvaceae in Flora of Ethiopia 2, 2: 190-256.

  • Coe, M., Abdallah, R., Mboya, E. & Vollesen., K. (1999). Vegetation and habitats of Mkomazi. In Coe, M. et al. Mkomazi: the Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation of a Tanzanian savanna: 117 – 144.

  • Vollesen, K. (2000). Blepharis (Acanthaceae) A taxonomic revision. 1 – 342. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Scientific Research & Data

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