Dr Rinku Desai
Digitisation Officer
Department
Team
Specialism
Taxonomy, Inflorescence architecture, Poaceae (Grasses)
I worked on grasses and sedges of India, with respect to its documentation, morphology, micromorphology. My main focus on the variations of its inflorescence architecture and its development.
- Volunteer at General Herbarium, The Natural History Museum, London
- Aacharya Jagdish Chandra Bose Post Doctoral Fellow (by Botanical Survey of India), January 2014-December 2016
- UGC Research Fellow, Documentation and Digitization of Grasses from South Gujarat, April 2010-MArch 2013
- Prof. K. S. Manilal Award for Floristics in XXI Annual Conference of IAAT & BCCC-1, December 2011
- Vaidya Narayanrao Hardikar Gold Medal for securing 1st position in M. Sc. Botany (Hons.)
Desai, R.J. & Raole, V.M. (2012)
Spodiopogon aristatus, a new species of Poaceae from Gujarat, India.
Kew Bull 67:103–107.
Raole, V.M., Desai, R.J. & Veldkamp, J.F. (2011)
Ischaemum sayajiraoi, a new species of Poaceae from Gujarat, India.
Kew Bull 66: 303.
Desai, R.J. & Raole, V.M. (2014)
Synflorescence Architecture studies in some Indian Cypereae (Cyperaceae).
Rheedea 24:81–98.
Desai, R.J. & Raole, V.M. (2014)
Inflorescence architecture in Genus Fimbristylis (Cyperaceae) from Gujarat, India.
Rheedea 23:73–85.
Desai, R.J. (2013)
Foliar Micromorphology of Subtribe Ischaemineae, Tribe Andropogoneae, Family Poaceae.
Notulae Scientia Biologicae 5: 296–302