People

Gregory, Mary

Job Title Honorary Research Fellow
Department Jodrell
Section Micromorphology
Science Teams Monocots I: General Alismatids & Lilioids
Large-Scale Syntheses
Joined Kew 1961
Foreign Language(s) French, German.

Qualifications & Appointments

BSc (Hons), Univ. Cambridge, 1955.

Hon. member, International Association of Wood Anatomists 1980.

Role

Systematic plant anatomist; bibliographer

Co-editor of the series ‘Anatomy of the Dicotyledons’ (vol. V, Myrtales) and ‘Anatomy of the Monocotyledons’. Research focus on Alliaceae, plus a database of fossil dicot woods. Also responsible for supervising volunteers inputting data into the Anatomy microscope slide database.

Projects

Anatomy of the Dicotyledons

Anatomy of the Monocotyledons

Cell Inclusions

Plant Micromorphology Bibliographic Database

Selected Publications 2001-2005

Gregory, M. & Cutler, D.F. (eds) (2002). Anatomy of the monocotyledons. Vol. IX. Acoraceae and Araceae. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 327 pp.

Prychid, C.J., Rudall, P.J. & Gregory, M. (2004). Systematics and biology of Silica bodies in monocotyledons. Bot. Rev. 69: 977-440.

Selected Publications pre-2001

Gregory, M. & Baas, P. (1989). A survey of mucilage cells in vegetative organs of the dicotyledons. Israel Joural of Botany 38: 125-174.

Gregory, M. (1994). Bibliography of systematic wood anatomy of dicotyledons. IAWA Journal, Supplement. 1, 265 pp.

Cutler, D.F. & Gregory, M. (eds) (1995). Anatomy of the monocotyledons. Vol. VIII. Iridaceae. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 126 pp.

Cutler, D.F. & Gregory, M. (eds) (1998). Anatomy of the dicotyledons. 2nd edn. Vol. IV. Saxifragales. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 324 pp.

Gregory, M., Fritsch, R.M., Friesen, N.W., Khassanov, F.O. & McNeal, D.W. (1998). Nomenclator Alliorum. Allium names and synonyms - a world guide. Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 83 pp.