Dr Olwen M Grace

Honorary Research Associate

Department

Accelerated Taxonomy

Team

Integrated Monography

Specialism

Taxonomy, systematics, tree of life, desert plants, succulence, sustainable uses, people and plants

  • BSc (Hons), University Natal, 1999
  • MSc, University Natal, 2002
  • PhD University of Pretoria, 2009
  • Council Member, Society for Economic Botany
  • Editorial boards of South African Journal of Botany and Frontiers in Plant Science

Fradera-Soler, M., Grace, O.M., Jørgensen, B. & Mravec, J. (2022)

Elastic and collapsible: current understanding of cell walls in succulent plants.

Journal of Experimental Botany 

Lu, M., Fradera-Soler, M., Forest, F., Barraclough, T.G & Grace, O.M. (2021)

Evidence linking life form to a major shift in diversification rate in Crassula.

American Journal of Botany 109: 272-290.

Woudstra, Y., Viruel, J., Fritzsche, M., Bleazard, T., Mate, R., Howard, C., Rønsted, N. & Grace, O.M. (2021)

A customised target capture sequencing tool for molecular identification of Aloe vera and relatives.

Scientific Reports 11: 24347.

Grace, O.M., Pérez-Escobar, O.A., Lucas, E., Vorontsova, M., Lewis, G.P., Walker, B., Lohmann, L.J., Knapp, S., et al. (2021)

Botanical monography in the Anthropocene.

Trends in Plant Science 26: 433-441.

 Malakasi, P., Bellot, S., Dee, R. & Grace, O.M. (2019)

Museomics clarifies the classification of Aloidendron (Asphodelaceae), the iconic African tree aloes.

Frontiers in Plant Science 10:1227.

Grace, O.M. (2019)

Succulent plant diversity as natural capital.

Plants People Planet 1:336–345.

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o.grace@kew.org

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