People
Andrews, Susyn
| Job Title | Consultant Horticultural Taxonomist |
|---|---|
| Department | Herbarium |
| Section | Honorary Research Associate |
| Science Teams |
Wet Tropics: SE Asia Lamiaceae |
| Joined Kew | |
| Foreign Language(s) | German |
Qualifications & Appointments
Woody Plant Committee, Royal Horticultural Society (RHS)
Science and Education Committee, International Dendrology Society
Plant Conservation Comm., Nat. Council Conservation of Plants & Gardens
Advisory Panel on Nomenclature and Taxonomy, RHS
Kew Guild Award Scheme Committee
Taxonomic advisor, Holly Society of America
Role
Taxonomy of both wild and cultivated plants, their history and utilisation.
Long term taxonomic research into Ilex (Aquifoliaceae) of SE Asia and Ilex in cultivation. Also Aquifoliaceae for Kubitzki’s Families & Genera of Vasc. Pl. in collaboration with colleagues in the Jodrell Laboratory and at Geneva. During 2001-2005, work focused on Lavandula, resulting in ‘The Genus Lavandula’, co-authored with Tim Upson (Univ. Cambridge) and published in May 2004. Research on Lavandula has continued, including visits to Provence, France, Australia and New Zealand in 2005.
Selected Publications 2001-2005
Andrews, S. (2001). 9. Corchorus. In Beentje, H.J. & Smith, S.A.L. (eds) Flora of Tropical East Africa: Tiliaceae & Muntingiaceae. Rotterdam: A.A. Balkema. 101-103.
Andrews, S. (2001). Tree of the Year: Nyssa. International Dendrology Society Yearbook 2000: 120-158.
Andrews, S. (2002). Aquifoliaceae. In Soepadamo, E., Saw, L.G. & Chung, R.C.K. (eds) The Tree Flora of Sabah & Sarawak 4: 1-27.
Li, J., Dosmann, M., Del Tredici, P. & Andrews, S. (2002). Systematic relationship of weeping katsura based on nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences. HortScience 37(3): 595-598.
Upson, T.M. & Andrews, S. (2004). The Genus Lavandula. A Botanical Magazine Monograph. Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Pp 442.
Selected Publications pre-2001
Cuenoud, P., Del Pero Martinez, M.A., Loizeau, P.-A., Spichiger, R., Andrews, S. & Manen, J.-F. (1999). Molecular phylogeny and historical biogeography of the genus Ilex L. (Aquifoliaceae). Ann. Bot. 85(1): 111-122.
Powell, M., Savolainen, V., Cuenoud, P., Manen, J.-F. & Andrews, S. (2000). The mountain holly (Nemopanthus mucronatus) revisited with molecular data. Kew Bull. 55(2): 341-147.