Nicky Biggs
Curator Botanist
Department
Team
Specialism
Malvaceae, Sapindales, Ochnaceae, Curation, Legume curation
Herbarium curation including organising curation tasks, naming, databasing and research, with an interest in Neotropical Malvaceae, Sapindales and Ochnaceae. As of 2015 will be involved in Neotropical Legume curation.
Curatorial duties include incorporating specimens for the Americas, rearranging the collections according to new revisions, adding information to various databases, selecting and processing specimens for outgoing loans; enquiries; assisting visitors as required; supervising a volunteer; naming, particularly Ochnaceae, Rutaceae, Meliaceae and Sapindaceae; contributing accounts to Neotropikey.
- BSc (Hons), Environmental Science, Univ. London, 1985
Pennington, T.P. & Biggs, N. (2016).
131. Meliaceae Flora of the Guianas.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Zappi, D., Milliken, W., Hind, D. J. N., Biggs, N., Rando, J., Malcolm-Tompkins, P. & Mello-Silva, R. (2014).
Plantas do Setor Noroeste da Serra do Cipó, Minas Gerais, guia ilustrado para a identificaçâo de espécies.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Biggs, N. & Hind, D. J. N. (2013).
Sciadocephala gracieliae (Compositae: Eupatorieae: Adenostemmatinae): a new species from Mato Grosso State, and a new generic record for Brazil.
Kew Bulletin 68: 309-315.
Klitgard, B., Edwards, S. L., Biggs, N. & Frisby, S. (2011).
Neotropical Malvaceae (Malvoideae).
Biggs, N. (2004).
502 Sinningia pusilla, Gesneriaceae.
Botanical Magazine 21:193-196.
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Tropical Important Plant Areas (TIPAs) in Bolivia
Identifying Tropical Important Plant Areas in the Chiquitano ecoregion of Bolivia and bordering Brazil.
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Building a partnership of systematic excellence – a checklist of selected families of Boyacá
Creating a hard-copy publication of an annotated checklist of the Myrtaceae and Fabaceae of Boyacá, Colombia, supported by an online catalogue of specimen data.