Prof. D Mabberley

Research Description

Professor Mabberley joined Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in March 2008 from his role as Director at the University of Washington Botanic Gardens in Seattle, USA. He has had a distinguished botanical career in academia and is recognised as an eminent botanist, historian and botanical art enthusiast.

Professor Mabberley is the author of Mabberley's Plant Book which gives an overview of the world's flora and is currently in its third edition (awarded Engler Medal 2009). He has written 15 other books, including the definitive biography of Robert Brown and books on botanical artists such as Ferdinand Bauer, Arthur Harry Church and Geraldine King Tam. He is widely published in scientific literature and received the Linnean Gold Medal for Botany in 2006.

The University of Washington Botanic Gardens were established in 2005 under his management. The Gardens include the Washington Park Arboretum, the Union Bay Gardens, the Center for Urban Horticulture, the Elisabeth C. Miller Library, the Otis Douglas Hyde Herbarium, and the Union Bay Natural Area.

Professor Mabberley is also Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, Extraordinary Professor at the Nationaal Herbarium Nederland in Leiden, The Netherlands, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He led Greening Australia NSW, a revegetation non-governmental organisation, as Chief Executive Officer. Professor Mabberley has been President of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy since 2005.

Publications (while at this department)

De, Kok R.P.J, Mabberley, D.J. (1999) A synopsis of Oxera Labill. (Labiatae) Kew Bulletin. 54 (2): pp 265-300

De, Kok R.P.J, Mabberley, D.J. (1999) Generic and intra-generic delimitation of Oxera Labill. (Labiatae) Kew Bulletin. 54 (2): pp 257-264

De, Kok R.P.J, Mabberley, D.J. (1999) The genus Faradaya (Labiatae) Blumea. 44 (2): pp 321-342

Steane, D.A, Scotland, R.W, Mabberley, D.J, Olmstead, R.G. (1999) Molecular systematics of Clerodendrum (Lamiaceae): Its sequences and total evidence American Journal of Botany. 86 (1): pp 98-107

Steane, D.A, Mabberley, D.J. (1998) Rotheca (Lamiaceae) revived Novon. 8 (2): pp 204-206

Steane, D.A, Scotland, R.W, Mabberley, D.J, Wagstaff, S.J, Reeves, P.A, Olmstead, R.G. (1997) Phylogenetic relationships of Clerodendrum s.l. (Lamiaceae) inferred from chloroplast DNA Systematic Botany. 22 (2): pp 229-243

Large, M.F, Mabberley, D.J. (1994) The pollen of Dysoxylum (Meliaceae): The demise of Pseudocarapa Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 116 (1): pp 1-12.
doi:10.1006/bojl.1994.1049.

Mabberley, D.J. (1994) New species of Dysoxylum (Meliaceae) Blumea. 38 (2): pp 303-312