People

Haigh, Anna L.

Job Title e-Science Araceae Taxonomist
Department Herbarium
Section Monocot Systematics
Science Teams Monocots I: General Alismatids & Lilioids
Joined Kew 2002
Foreign Language(s) basic French, Spanish and Portuguese

Qualifications & Appointments

BSc (Hons), Biology, Univ. Bristol, 2000

Role

Research on Araceae, including interactive keys, Web-based Taxonomy and the Neotropics.

Compiling content for webpages as part of creating a taxonomic e-science project, funded by NERC.  Creating interactive web-deliverable keys in LUCID3 to the Genera of Araceae, Arum and Anthurium (c. 700 currently accepted species).

Projects

Araceae Taxonomic Knowledge Base

Electronic Cataloguing and Imaging of Monocot Type Specimens

Plant Diversity and Conservation in Bolivia

Systematics of Dioscoreales

Yams of Madagascar

Selected Publications 2001-2005

Haigh, A., Wilkin, P. & Rakotonasolo, F. (2005). A new species of Dioscorea L. (Dioscoreaceae) from western Madagascar and its distribution and conservation status. Kew Bulletin 60 (2): 273-281.