People

Renvoize, Stephen A.

Job Title Honorary Research Fellow
Department Herbarium
Section Honorary Research Fellow
Science Teams
Joined Kew
Foreign Language(s)

Qualifications & Appointments

BSc, Univ. London, 1969

MPhil, Univ. Reading 1977.

Role

Global grass systematics, floristics and anatomy, special projects in South America, tropical Africa; Miscanthus; temperate Asian bamboos.

Floristic accounts for Flora of Tropical East Africa and Flora Zambesiaca, Aldabra, Brazil (Bahia & Paraná), Bolivia and Ecuador. Monographic study of Brachiaria for a forage grass project in collaboration with CIAT (Colombia). Monographic study of Miscanthus for a biomass project in collaboration with ADAS and funded by Defra. Anatomical studies of all grass genera for Genera Graminum project and Flora of Australia project.

Projects

Anatomy of the Monocotyledons

Electronic Cataloguing and Imaging of Monocot Type Specimens

Genera Graminum Edition 2

Grass Evolution, Anti-Herbivory and Past Climate

Grasses of Thailand

Selected Publications 2001-2005

Hodkinson, T.R., Chase, M.W., Lledó, M.D., Salamin, N. & Renvoize, S.A. (2002). Phylogenetics of Miscanthus, Saccharum and related genera (Saccharinae, Andropogoneae, Poaceae) based on DNA sequences from ITS nuclear ribosomal DNA and plastid trnL intron and trnL-F intergenic spacers. Journal of Plant Research 115: 381-392.

Renvoize, S.A. (2002). Grass anatomy. Flora of Australia 43(1): 71-132.

Hodkinson, T.R., Chase, M.W. & Renvoize, S.A. (2002). Characterization of a genetic resource collection for Miscanthus (Saccharinae, Andropogoneae, Poaceae) using AFLP and ISSR PCR. Annals of Botany 89(5): 627-636.

Hodkinson, T.R., Chase, M.W., Takahashi, C., Leitch, I.J., Bennett, M.D. & Renvoize, S.A. (2002). The use of DNA sequencing (ITS and trnL-F), AFLP, and fluorescent in situ hybridization to study allopolyploid Miscanthus (Poaceae). American Journal of Botany 89(2): 279-286.

Norrmann, G., Hanson, L., Renvoize, S.A. & Leitch, I.J. (2004). Genomic relationships among diploid and hexaploid species of Andropogon (Poaceae). Genome 47(6): 1220-1224.

Selected Publications pre-2001

Clayton, W.D. & Renvoize, S.A. (1970-1982). Gramineae Vols 1-3. Flora of Tropical East Africa.

Renvoize, S.A. (1984). Grasses of Bahia (Brazil). Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Clayton, W.D. & Renvoize, S.A. (1986). Genera Graminum. HMSO.

Renvoize, S.A. (1989). Flora Zambesiaca 10(3): 9-40.

Renvoize, S.A. (1998). Gramineas de Bolivia. Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 664 pp.