People

Fortunehopkins, Helen

Job Title Research Associate
Department Herbarium
Section Honorary Research Associate
Science Teams Wet Tropics: SE Asia
Joined Kew 0 $$
Foreign Language(s) French

Qualifications & Appointments

BA (Hons), Oxford, 1974

MA, Oxford, 1978

DPhil, Oxford, 1981.

Role

Taxonomic revision of Cunoniaceae for New Caledonia

Taxonomy of Cunoniaceae, including revisions of genera Codia, Geissois and Pancheria for ‘Flore de la Nouvelle-Calédonie’. Relationship between radiation of Cunoniaceae and ultramafic substrates in New Caledonia. Also completing publications on pollination biology of Mucuna (Leguminosae) in New Guinea, conservation biology of Parkia (Leguminosae), identification of drift disseminules from New Guinea, and evolution of bat-pollination in pantropical genera.

Projects

Guide to the Alpine and Subalpine Flora of Mt Jaya

Selected Publications 2001-2005

Hopkins, H.C.F. & Hoogland, R.D. (2002). Cunoniaceae. Flora Malesiana I, 16: 53-165.

Selected Publications pre-2001

Hopkins, M.J.G., Hopkins, H.C.F. & Sothers, C.A. (2000). Nocturnal pollination of Parkia velutina by Megalopta bees in Amazonia and its possible significance in the evolution of chiropterophily. J. Tropical Ecol. 16: 733-746.

Hopkins, H.C.F., Huxley, C.R., Pannell, C.M., Prance, G.T. & White, F. (1998).The Biological Monograph: The importance of field studies and functional syndromes for taxonomy and evolution in tropical plants. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 236 pp.

Luckow, M. & Hopkins, H.C.F. (1995). A cladistic analysis of Parkia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Amer. J. Bot. 82: 1300-1320.

Hopkins, H.C.F. & Menzies, J.I. (1995). The Flora of Motupore Island, Papua New Guinea. UPNG Press.

Hopkins, H.C.F. (1986). Parkia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Flora Neotropica Monograph 43: 1-124. (1986).