People

Cope, Thomas A. [Tom]

Job Title Grass Taxonomist
Department Herbarium
Section Monocot Systematics
Science Teams United Kingdom
Monocots II: Commelinids
Joined Kew 1974
Foreign Language(s)

Qualifications & Appointments

BSc (Hons. Botany; Manchester University, 1971)

PhD (Manchester University, 1976)

Council, Bot. Soc. Brit. Isles (1984-88)

Editorial Board, Kew Bulletin (1985-98)

Scientific & Horticultural Publications Advisory Committee, RBG Kew

Committee, Kew Wildlife Group.

Role

Systematics and biogeography of Poaceae; botanical monitoring of natural areas at Kew Gardens.

Monographic research on Poaceae for the second edition of ‘Genera Graminum’. Florisitic research on Poaceae with specialist interest in SW Asia (particularly the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt and Pakistan), southern tropical Africa (‘Flora Zambesiaca’), Northeast Africa (‘Flora of Somalia’), Macaronesia (‘Flora of Madeira’) and UK (‘BSBI Grass Handbook’) and world grass database. Specialist naming of grasses and rushes as BSBI British grass referee, BSBI British rush referee and referee for certain Juncus groups for Société pour l’Echange des Plantes vasculaires de l’Europe et du Bassin méditerranéen.

Projects

Electronic Cataloguing and Imaging of Monocot Type Specimens

Genera Graminum Edition 2

Grasses and Sedges of Britain and Ireland

Selected Publications 2001-2005

Cope, T. (2002). Gramineae (in part). In Pope, G.V. (ed). Flora Zambesiaca 10(4): 50-60, 95-180, 182.

Cope, T. (2005). Gramineae. In Boulos, L. (ed). Flora of Egypt 4: 124-349.

Selected Publications pre-2001

Cope, T. (1995). Poaceae. In Thulin, M. (ed) Flora of Somalia 4. 148-270

Cope, T. (1998). A synopsis of Eragrostis Wolf (Poaceae) in the Flora Zambesiaca area. Kew Bulletin. 53: 129-164.

Cope, T. (1998). A synopsis of Sporobolus R. Br. (Poaceae) in the Flora Zambesiaca area. Kew Bulletin 53: 165-172.

Cope, T. (1999). Gramineae In Pope, G.V. (ed). Flora Zambesiaca 10(2): 1-261

Cope, T. (2000). Chorology of Grasses – a review; In Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J (eds) Grasses: systematics and evolution. 325-330