People
Atkins, Sandy
| Job Title | Honorary Research Associate |
|---|---|
| Department | Herbarium |
| Section | Honorary Research Associate |
| Science Teams |
Wet Tropics: SE Asia Drylands: Tropical America Lamiaceae |
| Joined Kew | |
| Foreign Language(s) | French, Portuguese |
Qualifications & Appointments
HND Microbiology
Role
Floristics, baseline taxonomy, diversity, biogeography and conservation of Neotropical Verbenaceae; curation of herbarium specimens.
Research into Verbenaceae, especially in the Neotropics, with some responsibilities relating to incoming and outgoing Neotropical specimens, and the repatriation of herbarium data to Northeast Brazil. Research output has included a baseline monograph on the genus Stachytarpheta in Brazil (79 species); accounts for the ‘Flora of Paraguay’, ‘Flora of Thailand’ and ‘Flora Malesiana’, and a recently completed account of the family for Kubitzki’s Families and Genera of Vascular Plants.
Projects
Global Overview of Lamiaceae and Related Families
Stachytarpheta (Verbenaceae) in Brazil
Selected Publications 2001-2005
Atkins, S. (2003). Stachytarpheta Vahl. In Programa ProFlora (ed) Flora fanerogamica Argentina. Fasciculo 84. 253. Verbenaceae, parte 1. Subfamilia I. Verbenoideae, parte 1. Tribu II. Lantaneae, parte A. Cordoba, Argentina: ProFlora Conicet. 42-43.
Atkins, S. (2004). Verbenaceae. In Kadereit, J.W. (ed) The families and genera of vascular plants, 7, Lamiales. Berlin: Springer. 449-468.
Atkins, S. (2004). Verbenaceae. In Smith, N., Mori, S.A., Henderson, A., Stevenson, D.W. & Heald, S.V. (eds) Flowering plants of the Neotropics. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 387-390.
Atkins, S. & de Kok, R. (2004). Viticoideae. In Harley, R.M., Atkins, S., Budantsev, A.L., Cantino, P.D., Conn, B.J., Grayer, R., Harley, M.M., de Kok, R., Krestovskaja, T., Morales, R., Paton, A.J., Ryding, O. & Upson, T. (2004). Labiatae. In Kadereit, J.W. (ed) The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, 7, Lamiales. Berlin: Springer Verlag. 167-282.
Atkins, S. (2005). A revision of the genus Stachytarpheta in Brazil. Kew Bull. 60(2): 161-272.
Selected Publications pre-2001
Atkins, S., Alves, R.J.V. & Kolbeck, J. (1996). Plants in Peril, 23 - Stachytarpheta sellowiana. Curtis Bot. Mag.13(1): 33-35.
Atkins, S. (1996). Holmskioldia sanguinea Verbenaceae. Curtis Bot. Mag. 13(2): 79-81.
Atkins S. (1997). Two new species of Callicarpa (Verbenaceae) from Brunei. Kew Bull. 52: 227-230.
de Kok R. & Atkins, S. (1997). The genus Archboldia E. Beer & H.J. Lam is put into the synonymy of Clerodendrum L. (Labiatae). Kew Bull. 52: 503-504.
Atkins, S. (1998). Verbenaceae. In Dubs, B. (ed) Prodromus Florae Matogrossensis. Switzerland: Dubs. 294-297, 438-440.