People

Challen, Gill L.

Job Title Herbarium Assistant
Department Herbarium
Section Dicot Systematics
Science Teams Wet Tropics: SE Asia
Malpighiales
Joined Kew 1993
Foreign Language(s) French

Qualifications & Appointments

BSc (Hons), Microbiology, University of Surrey, 1973.

Role

Curation of families within the Malpighiales Section; taxonomy and systematics of Euphorbiaceae.

Curation and transactional process management of families within Malpighiales Section, Herbarium. Naming of Euphorbiaceae sensu lato worldwide. Research into systematics of West African Tragia. Field studies in SE Asia. Databasing of types of Euphorbiaceae sensu lato.

Projects

Interactive Key to the Genera of Malpighiales

Polyhydroxyalkaloids in Euphorbiaceae sensu stricto

World Classification and Phylogeny of Salicaceae sensu stricto

Selected Publications 2001-2005

Hoffmann, P., Kirkup, D., Galster, A., G. Challen, G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2005). Interactive key to the genera of Euphorbiaceae sensu lato. Available at: http://www.kew.org/herbarium/keys/euphorbs/.