People
Harley, Raymond M.
| Job Title | Honorary Research Fellow |
|---|---|
| Department | Herbarium |
| Section | Honorary Research Associate |
| Science Teams |
Drylands: Tropical America Lamiaceae |
| Joined Kew | |
| Foreign Language(s) | Portuguese, French, Spanish, Latin |
Qualifications & Appointments
BA, Univ. Oxford
MA, Univ. Oxford
D.Phil
Visiting Professor, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (Bahia, Brazil)
Committee, Margaret Mee Fellowship Programme
Overseas Fielwork Committee, RBG Kew (1975-96)
Steering committee, Plantas do Nordeste (1993-1995)
Role
Lamiaceae Systematics and revisions (Hyptidinae), Neotropics biodiversity, conservation of Brazilian plants, floras of Bahia & NE Brazil; teaching taxonomy.
Visiting Professorship in Brazil (since 1996), teaching plant taxonomy and actively collecting herbarium material, especially in NE Brazil and Bahia, usually with students. Actively publishing work, mostly on Lamiaceae, also on floristics, biodiversity, conservation and related topics. Research projects are mostly on Lamiaceae systematics: coordinated and wrote the introduction and substantial parts of text of Lamiaceae for Kubitzki’s ‘Families and Genera of Flowering Plants’ (2004), likewise account of Nesogenaceae, besides accounts for French Guiana and Grão Mogol (Minas Gerais, Brazil), and checklists: Catolés (Bahia, Brazil), Cono Sul, Lamiaceae in danger of extinction in Brazil. Also papers on African Hyptis. Plant Biodiversity studies include collaborative projects on carbon capture in caatinga woodland in Brazil, distribution of Lamiaceae, and a list of endemic Angiosperms in Caatingas of NE Brazil. An important paper on Biodiversity and conservation of plants in Brazil (Giulietti, Harley et al. 2005), has been much consulted. Field studies resulted in two illustrated volumes on plants of the Chapada Diamantina, aimed at tourists and students:one features useful plants of the area, based on local knowledge, the other features a series of mountain trails with accounts of over 600 plant species. Ongoing identification work for British Lamiaceae, especially Mentha for the Botanical Society of the British Isles (BSBI) and Monks Wood Biological Records Centre, and lecturing on Mentha species and hybrids at BSBI meetings. Research in progress includes revision of Hyptidinae for ‘Flora Neotropica’ (>350 species), Hyptis for ‘Flora of São Paulo’ (70 spp.) and for ‘Flora Mesoamericana’ (c. 40 spp.).
Projects
Global Overview of Lamiaceae and Related Families
Systematics, Sustainable Use and Conservation of Tribe Ocimeae (Basil and Allies, Lamiaceae)
Selected Publications 2001-2005
Giulietti, A.M., Harley, R.M., de Queiroz, L.P., Barbosa, M.R. de V. & Figueiredo, M.A. (2002). In Sampaio, E.V.S.B., Giulietti, A.M., Virgínio, J. & Gamarra-Rojas, C.F.L. (eds) Espécies endêmicas da caatinga, in Vegetação & Flora da Caatinga 7. 103-115.
Harley, R.M. (2003). Hyptis bahiensis Harley: a new species of Labiatae from Brazil. Kew Bulletin 58: 479—483.
Harley, R.M., Atkins, S., Budantsev, A., Cantino, P.D., Conn, B., Grayer, R., Harley, M.M., Kok, R., de, Krestovskaja, T., Morales, A., Paton, A.J., Ryding, O. & Upson, T. (2004). Labiatae. In Kadereit, J.W. (ed) The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants vol. 7. 167—275.
Harley, R.M. & Giulietti, A.M. (2004). Wild Flowers of the Chapada Diamantina. Illustrated walks in the mountains of NE Brazil (Flores Nativas da Chapada Diamantina. Trilhas botânicas ilustradas nas montanhas do Nordeste do Brasil). São Carlos, São Paulo, Brasil: Rima Editora. 319 pp.
Giulietti, A. M., Harley, R.M., Queiroz, L. P. de, Wanderley, M. das G. L. & Van den Berg, C. (2005). Biodiversity and conservation of plants in Brazil. Conservation Biology 19(3): 632-639.
Selected Publications pre-2001
Harley, R.M. (1967). Taxonomic Analysis of Herbarium material by gas chromatography. Nature 213: 1241-1242.
Harley, R.M. (1976). A Review of Eriope and Eriopidion (Labiatae). Hooker's Icones Plantarum 38: 1-107.
Harley, R.M. & Brighton, C.A. (1977). Chromosome numbers in the genus Mentha. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 74: 71-96.
Harley, R.M. (1988). Evolution and Distribution of Eriope, (Labiatae) and its Relatives, in Brazil. In Vanzolini, P.E. & Heyer, W.R. (eds) Proceedings of a workshop on Neotropical Distribution Patterns. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 71-120.
Harley, R.M. & Reynolds, T. (eds) (1992). Advances in Labiate Science. Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 567 pp.