Barbara Gillian Briggs ( born Barbara Gillian Briggs [1] or born Barbara Briggs [2] , June 15, 1934 ) is an Australian botanist .
| Barbara Gillian Briggs | |
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| English Barbara gillian briggs | |
| Date of Birth | June 15, 1934 (85 years old) |
| Place of Birth | |
| A country | Australia |
| Scientific field | botany |
| Alma mater | |
| Awards and prizes | Clark Medal ( 1994 ) [d] |
| Taxonomy of wildlife | |
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The author of the names of a number of botanical taxa . In the botanical ( binary ) nomenclature, these names are supplemented by the abbreviation " BGBriggs " . List of such taxa on the IPNI website Personal page on IPNI website |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Scientific activities
- 3 Main publications
- 4 notes
- 5 Links
Biography
Barbara Gillian Briggs was born on June 15, 1934 .
In 1998, she was one of the nerds at the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group [3] . Since retiring, Briggs has been an honorary fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney [2] . She has a bachelor's degree (with honors) and a Ph.D. [2] . Barbara Gillian has described over 280 plant species [4] .
Scientific activity
Barbara Gillian Briggs specializes in seed plants [1] . Her research interests include phylogeny of the Restionaceae family, the Centrolepidaceae family and the Anarthriaceae family, the number of chromosomes in Australian plants of the Restionaceae family , a description of the Restionaceae family, the flora of Australia, and a description of Ecdeiocolea rigens [2] .
Main publications
- Briggs, BG 1962 . Interspecific hybridization in the Ranunculus lappaceus group. Evolution 16: 372-390.
- Johnson, LAS, & Briggs, BG 1963 . Evolution in the Proteaceae. Austral. J. Bot. 11: 21–61.
- Johnson, LAS & Briggs, BG 1975 . On the Proteaceae - the evolution and classification of a southern family. J. Linn. Soc. (London) Bot. 70: 83–182.
- Briggs, BG, & Johnson, LAS 1979 . Evolution in the Myrtaceae - evidence from inflorescence structure. Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 102: 157–256.
- Johnson LAS & Briggs, BG 1981 . Three old southern families - Myrtaceae, Proteaceae and Restionaceae. In Keast, A. (ed.) Ecological Biogeography of Australia. Pp. 427-464. W. Junk: The Hague.
- Johnson, LAS & Briggs, BG 1984 . Myrtales and Myrtaceae - a phylogenetic analysis. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 71: 700–756.
- Briggs, BG 1986 . Alpine Ranunculi of the Kosciusko plateau - habitat change and hybridization. In BA Barlow (ed), Flora and Fauna of Alpine Australasia: Ages and Origins. CSIRO. pp. 401-412.
- Briggs, BG 1991 . One hundred years of plant taxonomy, 1889-1989. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 78: 19–32.
- Briggs, BG, & Ehrendorfer, F. 1992 . A revision of the Australian species of Parahebe and Derwentia (Scrophulariaceae). Telopea 5: 241–287.
- Briggs, BG & Johnson, LAS ( 1998 ) Georgeantha hexandra , a new genus and species of Ecdeiocoleaceae (Poales) from Western Australia. Telopea 7: 307-312.
- Briggs, BG & Johnson, LAS ( 1998 ) New genera and species of Australian Restionaceae (Poales). Telopea 7: 345–373.
- Linder, HP, Briggs, BG & Johnson, LAS ( 1998 ) Anarthriaceae: pp. 19–21, Ecdeiocoleaceae: pp 195–197, Restionaceae pp. 425–445 in, K. Kubitzki (Ed.) The Families and Genera of Flowering Plants IV. Springer-Verlag: Berlin.
- Briggs, BG & Johnson, LAS ( 1999 ) A guide to a new classification of Restionaceae and allied families. Pp. 25–56 in Meney, KA & Pate, JS (eds) Australian Rushes, Biology, Identification and Conservation of Restionaceae and allied families. (University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands).
- Briggs, BG, Marchant, AD, Gilmore, S. and Porter, CL ( 2000 ). A molecular phylogeny of Restionaceae and allies. Pp. 661–671 in Wilson, KL & Morrison, D. (eds.) Monocots - Systematics and Evolution (Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. Comparative Biol. Monocots, Sydney 1998). (CSIRO: Melbourne).
- Saarela, JM, Rai, HS, Doyle, JA, Endress, PK, Mathews, S., Marchant, AD, Briggs, BG and Graham, SW ( 2007 ) Hydatellaceae identified as a new branch near the base of the angiosperm phylogenetic tree. Nature 446, 312-315.
- Garnock-Jones PJ, Albach D and Briggs BG ( 2007 ) Botanical names in Southern Hemisphere Veronica (Plantaginaceae): sect. Detzneria, sect. Hebe, and sect. Labiatoides . Taxon: 56: 571-582.
- Marchant, AD and Briggs, BG ( 2007 ) Ecdeiocoleaceae and Joinvilleaceae, sisters of Poaceae (Poales): evidence from rbc L and mat K data. Telopea 11: 437-450.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 International Plant Names Index: Barbara Gillian Briggs (1934)
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 The Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust: Barbara G. Briggs Archived July 17, 2012 on Wayback Machine
- ↑ The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group
- ↑ See the link in the card “Systematic wildlife”.