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  George Yatskievych, Ph.D.
Curator, and Director, Flora of Missouri Project

Missouri Botanical Garden
P.O. Box 299
St. Louis, MO 63166-0299
USA

Research Associate Professor and Adjunct Graduate Faculty,
University of Missouri–St. Louis
Research Associate, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson

office phone: +1-314-577-9522
fax: +1-314-577-0830
email: george.yatskievych@mobot.org

Ph.D., Indiana University, 1990
M.S., University of Arizona, 1982
B.S., University of Arizona, 1979

General Research Interests
George collecting in Brazil, January 2010
Photo courtesy of
Jefferson Prado
 
  • Floristics of the United States (particulary Missouri)
  • Floristics of Mexico
  • Systematics of Pteridophytes
  • Systematics of Parasitic Flowering Plants
  • Plant Conservation

    Research Emphases
  • Revision of Steyermark's Flora of Missouri
  • Holoparasitic Orobanchaceae, Flora of North America
  • Pteridophytes, Vascular Plants of Arizona

    Selected Publications
  • Applequist, W. L., M. Callmander, G. Davidse, A. Sennikov, M. Thulin, P. Vorster, and G. Yatskievych. 2010. Apportionment of institutional votes for the Nomenclature Section: a rebuttal to Smith & al. Taxon 59: 1567–1570.
  • Beck, J. B., M. D. Windham, G. Yatskievych, and K. M. Pryer. 2010. A diploids-first approach to species delimitation and interpreting polyploid evolution in the fern genus Astrolepis (Pteridaceae). Syst. Bot. 35: 223–234.
  • Yatskievych, G., T. R. Van Devender, and A. L. Reina-Guerrero. 2010. Pteridofitas. Pp. 217–227 in F. E. Molina Freaner and T. R. Van Devender, eds. Biodiversidad Biológica de Sonora. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City.
  • Yatskievych, G., and M. D. Windham. 2009. Vascular Plants of Arizona: Isoëtaceae, Marsileaceae, Polypodiaceae, Selaginellaceae, Thelypteridaceae. Canotia 5: 27–52.
  • Yatskievych, G., and J. L. Contreras J. 2009. A new genus of holoparasitic Orobanchaceae from Mexico. Novon 19: 266–276.
  • Collins, L. T., A. E. L. Colwell, and G. Yatskievych. 2009. Orobanche riparia (Orobanchaceae), a new species from the American Midwest. J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 3: 3–11.
  • Mora-Olivo, A., and G. Yatskievych. 2009. Salvinia molesta in Mexico. Amer. Fern J. 99: 56–58.
  • Yatskievych, G., and S. Kobal. 2008. The genus Cystopteris at Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve, DuPage County Illinois. Amer. Fern J. 98: 79–83.
  • Yatskievych, G., and M. D. Windham. 2008. Vascular Plants of Arizona: Azollaceae, Blechnaceae, Dennstaedtiaceae, Equisetaceae, Salviniaceae. Canotia 4: 31–49.
  • Raveill, J. A., and G. Yatskievych. 2008. Heliotropium europaeum (Heliotropiaceae) new to Missouri. Missouriensis 28/29: 10–17.
  • Yatskievych, G., and A. L. Arbeláez A. 2008. A new species and three generic transfers in the fern genus Notholaena (Pteridaceae). Novon 18: 120–124.
  • Meijer, W., and G. Yatskievych. 2007. Rafflesiaceae. P. 476 in V. Funk, T. Hollowell, P. Berry, C. Kelloff, and S.N. Alexander. Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 55: 1–584.
  • Yatskievych, G. 2007. A new combination in Glossopetalon (Crossosomataceae). Novon 17: 529–530.
  • Phipps, J. B., G. Yatskievych, and K. Wood. 2007. Typification of Crataegus names from the Missouri flora. Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 179–197.
  • Yatskievych, G. 2006. Steyermark’s Flora of Missouri, Volume 2. Errata. Missouriensis 27: 23–25.
  • Hill, R., and G. Yatskievych. 2006. Taxonomic and nomenclatural differences between Steyermark’s Flora of Missouri and the Revised Flora of Missouri, Volume 2. Missouriensis 27: 26–46.
  • Yatskievych, G. 2006. Steyermark’s Flora of Missouri, Second Edition, Volume 2. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
  • Windham, M. D., and G. Yatskievych. 2005. A novel hybrid Polypodium from Arizona. Amer. Fern J. 95:57–67.
  • Yatskievych, G. 2004 (2005). How faster to master the Aster disaster: a primer on the changing nomenclature of Missouri asters. Missouriensis 25:26–32.
  • Yatskievych, G., and W. Meijer. 2004. Rafflesiaceae. Pp. 407-410 in P. E. Berry, K. Yatskievych, and B. K. Holtz, eds. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana, Volume 8. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
  • Yatskievych, G. 2004. Lennoaceae. Pp. 209-211, pl. 26C in N. Smith, S. A. Mori, A. Henderson, D. W. Stevenson, and S. V. Heald, eds. Flowering Plants of the Neoropics. Princeton University Press and New York Botanical Garden Press, Princeton and New York.
  • Windham, M. D., and G. Yatskievych. 2003. Chromosome studies of cheilanthoid ferns (Pteridaceae: Cheilanthoideae) from the western United States and Mexico. Amer. J. Bot. 90: 1788-1800.
  • Windham, M. D., and G. Yatskievych. 2003. Revised nomenclature and a new North American record for the villose cliff brake (Pellaea, Pteridophyta). Novon 13:358-362.
  • Yatskievych, G., and A. R. Smith. 2003. Typification of Notholaena R. Br. (Pteridaceae). Taxon 52:331-336.
  • Yatskievych, G. 2001. Lennoaceae. Pp. 1213-1214 in W. D. Stevens, C. Ulloa U., A. Pool, and O. M. Montiel, eds. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(2).
  • Yatskievych, G., and J.A. Raveill. 2001. Notes on the increasing proportion of non-native angiosperms in the Missouri flora, with reports of three new genera for the state. Sida 19:701-709.

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