Ruth P Clark
Career Development Fellow
I am a specialist in the family Leguminosae. My current research is Taxonomy, Systematics and Conservation of Australasian Leguminosae – Caesalpinioideae, with a particular focus on the genera Mezoneuron, Bauhinia s.l., Crudia, Maniltoa and Cynometra.
- BSc (Hons), Ecology
- MSc, Environmental Sustainability
Mackinder, B.A. & Clark, R. (2014).
A synopsis of the Asian and Australasian genus Phanera Lour. (Cercideae: Caesalpinioideae: Leguminosae) including 19 new combinations.
Phytotaxa 166: 049–68.
G.P. Lewis, B.D. Schrire, B.A. Mackinder, L. Rico & Clark, R. (2013).
A 2013 linear sequence of legume genera set in a phylogenetic context. A tool for collections management and taxon sampling.
South African Journal of Botany 89: 76–84.
Mackinder, B.A., Clark, R. (2012).
Baphia rosa Mackinder and R. Clark (Leguminosae – Papilionoideae), a new species from the Kabompo District of Zambia and notes on Baphia chrysophylla, Baphia claessensii and Baphia gilletii from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Kew Bulletin 67: 413-420.
Clark, R., van der Burgt, X., Banks, H., Feika, A.M.B., Lewis, G. (2011).
A synopsis of Pseudovigna (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae) including a new species, P. sulaensis, from Sierra Leone.
Kew Bulletin 66: 589 - 599.
Clark, R. (2008)
Revision of the genus Sarcodum (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae: Millettieae).
Kew Bulletin 63: 155-159.
