Sue Frisby

Assistant Curator

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Department

Science Operations

Team

Science Collections

Specialism

General naming of material from Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Venezuela with special interest in Compositae, Cunoniaceae, Verbenaceae and Malvaceae

Herbarium curation, naming, databasing and research, including Neptropical Malvaceae and Compositae.

My work includes laying out material for mounting, incorporating specimens into the herbarium, rearranging collections according to new revisions, selecting material for loans, digitising and databasing specimens on CRIS, HerbCat, and BRAHMS, incorporating returned loans and generally maintaining the collections, supporting curation in other teams and assisting visitors as required.

I support the Americas Team’s research with identification and naming of incoming and project material, describing new species of Compositae in association with Dr Hind, providing content for online platforms such as Neotropikey, and various generic online keys.

  • BSc Botany and Geography, Victoria University of Wellington, 1981

Hind, D.J.N. & Frisby, S. (2014).

Mikania manomoi (Compositae: Eupatorieae: Mikaniinae), a new, but epappose, species from the Cerro Manomó, Santa Cruz, Eastern Bolivia.

Kew Bulletin 69: 1–7.

Frisby, S. & Hind, D.J.N. (2014).

Ichthyothere sasakiae, (Compositae: Heliantheae: Milleriinae), a new species from the Amazonian campo rupestre of northern Mato Grosso Stat, Brazil

Kew Bulletin 69: 9504.

Hind, D.J.N. & Frisby, S. (2014).

Pectis harryi (Compositae: Heliantheae: Pectidinae), a new species from a rock platform in the Departmento de Santa Cruz, Eastern Bolivia

Kew Bulletin 69: 9520.

Hind, D.J.N. & Frisby, S. (2014).

Emiliella luwiikae (Compositae: Senecioneae: Senecioninae), a new species from northwestern Zambia.

Kew Bulletin 69: 9550.

Biggs, N., Edwards, S., Frisby, S. & Klitgård, B.B. (2011).

Neotropical Malvaceae - Malvoideae.

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Email

s.frisby@kew.org