People

Harvey, Yvette B.

Job Title Deputy leader, Wet Tropics Africa team
Department Herbarium
Section Regional Teams
Science Teams Wet Tropics: Africa
Drylands: Africa
Joined Kew 1985
Foreign Language(s)

Qualifications & Appointments

Dip. Environ. Develop., Open Univ., 1997

BSc (Hons), Open Univ., 1997

MA, Museum Studies, Univ. College London, 2002.

Role

Botanical inventories for conservation management in Cameroon; taxonomy of Sapotaceae.

Plant taxonomist with fifteen year’s experience with the flora of Africa, concentrating on conducting botanical inventories (including c. 1 month in the field each year) of protected areas for conservation management. Responsible for the naming of herbarium collections, including Myrsinaceae, Sapotaceae, Campanulaceae,  Menispermaceae.

Responsible for the Herbarium’s Pest Management programme and giving advice internationally on herbarium management.

Currently re-writing the new edition of the internationally renowned  Herbarium Handbook.

Projects

African Lamiaceae

Guinea-Conakry: Developing a National Herbarium and Survey of the Simandou Range

Mefou Proposed National Park, Cameroon: A Conservation Checklist

Monograph of Octoknema (Olacaceae)

Monograph of Omphalocarpum (Sapotaceae)

The Plants of Bali Ngemba Forest Reserve, Cameroon: A Conservation Checklist

Selected Publications 2001-2005

Harvey, Y. (2001). Grey biscuits, flying carpets and cigarettes: an integrated pest management programme in the herbarium at Kew. In Kingsley, H., Pinniger, D., Xavier-Rowe, A. & Winsor, P. (eds) Integrated Pest Management for Collections. Proceedings of 2001: A Pest Odyssey. London: James & James Ltd. 57-62.

Clennett, C., Harvey, Y.B. & Pearman, G. (2002). Plant Portraits: 433. Edgeworthia chrysantha. Thymelaeaceae. Botanical Magazine 19(1): 19-27

Iwarsson, M. & Harvey, Y.B. (2003). Monograph of the Genus Leonotis (Pers.) R.Br. Kew Bulletin 58: 597-645

Harvey, Y.B. (2004). Family accounts for: Campanulaceae; Gentianaceae; Myrsinaceae & Sapotaceae. In Cheek, M., Pollard, B.J., Darbyshire, I., Onana, J-M. & Wild, C. (eds) The plants of Kupe, Mwanenguba and the Bakossi Mountains: a conservation checklist. Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Harvey, Y., Pollard, B.J., Darbyshire, I., Onana, J-M. & Cheek, M. (eds) (2004). The plants of Bali Ngemba Forest Reserve, Cameroon: a conservation checklist. Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 154 pp.

Selected Publications pre-2001

Harvey, Y.B. (1995). Family accounts for: Acanthaceae, Boraginaceae, Campanulaceae, Cecropiaceae, Gentianaceae, Moraceae, Myrsinaceae & Styracaceae. In Stannard, B.L. (ed.) Flora of the Pico das Almas. Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Harvey, Y.B. (1996). The Stachys aculeolata/aethiopica complex in tropical Africa. Kew Bulletin 51: 433–454.

Harvey, Y.B. & Lovett, J.C. (1999). A New Species of Omphalocarpum (Sapotaceae) from Eastern Tanzania. Kew Bulletin 54: 197–202.