Researchers at MO Richard C. Keating, Ph.D., Research Associate Missouri Botanical Garden P.O. Box 299 St. Louis, MO 63166-0299 USA office phone: +1-314-577-0826 fax: +1-314-577-0820 email: richard.keating@mobot.org or rkeatin@siue.edu Professor Emeritus, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. Commissioner, Illinois Nature Preserves Commission Member, Board of Directors, Nature Preserves Foundation, Inc., Edwardsville, IL Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, 1965 M.S., University of Cincinnati, 1962 B.A., Colgate University, 1959 General Research Interests Comparative anatomy of dicots, monocots Adaptations of flowering plant leaves growing in stressed habitats Microtechniques, Microscopy, Photography Research Emphases Comparative study of woody plant structural adaptations along geographic transects. Emphasis on changes in Salix leaves encountered in transitions from low elevations and latitudes to arctic and cold timberlines in North America A compilation of simple methods for the preparation of structural materials for anatomical study Anatomical summary of Onagraceae for Anatomy of the Dicotyledons series of Oxford University Press A field guide to the Spanish Peaks region of Colorado Selected Publications Keating, R. C. 2005. William Gerald D'Arcy, 1931-1999: biography, bibliography, plant taxa named by him, and plant taxa named in his honor, Pp. 3-23, In Keating, R. C., V. Hollowell, & T. C. Croat (eds.) A Festschrift for William G. D'Arcy, The Legacy of a Taxonomist. Missouri Botanical Garden Monographs in Systematic Botany 420 pp. Keating, R. C. 2004. Systematic occurrence of raphide crystals in Araceae, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 91: 495-504. Keating, R. C. 2004. Vegetative anatomical data and its relation to a revised classification of the genera of Araceae. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 91: 485-494. Little, S. A., R. A. Stockey and R. C. Keating, R. C. 2004. Duabanga-like leaves from the Middle Eocene Princeton chert and comparative leaf histology of Lythraceae sensu lato. Amer. J. Bot. 91: 1126-1139. Keating, R. C. 2003. Anatomy of the Monocotyledons. Vol. 9. Acoraceae and Araceae. Oxford University Press. New York. 327 pp. Keating, R. C. 2003. Leaf anatomical characters and their value in understanding morphoclines in the Araceae. Bot. Rev. 68: 510-523. Gordon, A., and Keating R. C. 2001. Light microscopy and determination of Eryngium yuccifolium Michaux leaf material in twined slippers from Salts Cave, KY. J. Archeol. Sci. 28: 55-60. D'Arcy, W. G., Keating, R. C., Zhang, Z-Y., and Peng, C- I. 2001. The genus Tubocapsicum (Solanaceae). Bot. Bull. Academia Sinica 42: 67-84. Keating, R. C. 2000. Anatomy of the young vegetative shoot of Takhtajania perrieri (Winteraceae). Ann. Missouri Bot Gard. 87: 335-346. Keating, R. C. 2000. Collenchyma in Araceae: trends in relation to classification. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 134: 203-214. McPherson, G., van der Werff, H., and R. C. Keating. 1997. A new species of Xerophyta (Vellozia) from Madagascar. Novon 7: 387-394. Keating, R. C. 1996. Anther investigations: a review of methods, Pp. 255-271, in W. G. D'Arcy & R. C. Keating (eds.) The Anther, Form, Function and Phylogeny. Cambridge Univ. Press. New York. 336 pp. D'Arcy, W. G., R. C. Keating, and S. L. Buchmann. 1996. The oxalate package or so-called resorption tissue in some bee-pollinated angiosperms. Pp. 159-191, In, W. G. D'Arcy and R. C. Keating (eds.) The Anther, Form, Function and Phylogeny. Cambridge University Press. New York. 336 pp. This page was created 03/06/07