21 August 2019
Dr Gemma L C Bramley
Research Leader
Department
Team
Specialism
South East Asian floristics and herbaceous plant diversity; taxonomy and systematics of Lamiaceae and Gesneriaceae; New Guinea
As a Research Leader in the Asia team (Identification and Naming), my role is to carry out and develop floristic and systematic research on Asian plants. My specialist interest is the taxonomy and systematics of the Lamiaceae and Gesneriaceae. A particular focus is to better understand herbaceous plant diversity in the threatened rain forests of tropical SE Asia, using the species-rich genus Cyrtandra (Gesneriaceae) as a model group.
I also organise the NERC funded Applied Plant Taxonomy, Identification and Field Survey Skills course, and am co-ordinator for the ‘Plant Taxonomy and Diversity’ module in Kew’s MSc course in Plant and Fungal Taxonomy, Diversity and Conservation, in partnership with Queen Mary University of London.
- BA (Hons), Univ. Oxford (Somerville College), 2000
- PhD, Univ. Edinburgh, 2003
- MSc (Science Communication), Imperial College 2010
- Kew Bulletin Editorial Board
- Edinburgh Journal of Botany Editorial Board
-
Tropical Important Plant Areas (TIPAs) in Indonesian New Guinea
Identifying Tropical Important Plant Areas of New Guinea, Indonesia to protect socio-economically important plant species.
-
Unlocking the potential of Seasonal Forests to underpin Wallacea's green economy
Exploring the plant diversity of the Lesser Sunda Islands to help create a framework for ecologically viable economic development.
Cámara-Leret, R., Frodin, D. G., Adema, F., Anderson, C., Appelhans, M. S., et al. (2020).
New Guinea has the world’s richest island flora.
Nature 584(7822), 579-583.
Atkins, H. J., Bramley, G. L. C., Johnson, M. A., Kartonegoro, A., Nishii, K., Kokubugata, G., Moeller, M. & Hughes, M. (2020).
A molecular phylogeny of Southeast Asian Cyrtandra (Gesneriaceae) supports an emerging paradigm for Malesian plant biogeography.
Frontiers of Biogeography 12(1).
Atkins, H., Heatubun, C., Galloway, L. & Bramley, G. (2019).
Two new species, Cyrtandra bungahijau and C. vittata, and notes on Cyrtandra (Gesneriaceae) from Yapen Island, Indonesia.
Kew Bulletin 74(2).
Bramley, G., Bongcheewin, B., Davies, N., de Kok, R., Mabberley, D., Suddee, S., Walsingham, L. & Wearn, J. (2019).
Flora Malesiana Lamiaceae
23Naturalis Biodiversity Center under the auspices of Foundation Flora Malesiana.
Li, B., Cantino, P.D., Olmstead, R.G., Bramley, G. L. C., Xiang, C.-L., Ma, Z.-H. , Tan, Y.-H. & Zhang,D.-X. (2016).
A large-scale chloroplast phylogeny of the Lamiaceae sheds new light on its subfamilial classification.
Scientific Reports 6:34343.