Researchers at MO Henk van der Werff, Ph.D. Head of Monographic Studies Department Deputy Director of Research Missouri Botanical Garden P.O. Box 299 St. Louis, MO 63166-0299 USA Adjunct Associate Professor and Research Associate Professor, University of Missouri-St. Louis office phone: + 1-314-577-5109 email: henk.vanderwerff@mobot.org Ph.D., State University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, 1978 General Research Interests Neotropical Lauraceae Lauraceae worldwide Flora of the Galapagos Islands Research Emphases Lauraceae of Central America Lauraceae of Peru/Ecuador Lauraceae of Madagascar Selected Publications 2008. A synopsis of the genus Tachigali (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae) in northern South America. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 95: 618-660. 2007. Are cuticular characters useful in solving generic relationships of problematic species of Lauraceae? Taxon 56: 1229-1237 (with S. Nishida as co-author). 2006.  A revision of the Malagasy endemic genus Aspidostemon Rohwer & Richter (Lauraceae). Adansonia, ser. 3, 28: 7-44. 2001. Phylogeny and Historical Biogeography of Lauraceae: Evidence from the Chloroplast and Nuclear Genomes [with A. Chanderbali and S. Renner]. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 88: 104-134. 2000. New species of Lauraceae from Central Amazonia, Brazil. Novon 10: 264-297. [with A. Vicentini]. 1999. New taxa and combinations in the Ocotea helicterifolia (Lauraceae) species group. Novon 9: 571-583. 1999. Lauraceae. Pp. 700-750 in P. Berry, K. Yatskievych & B. Holst (editors), Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana, Volume 5 (excl. Nectranda). Missouri Bot. Gard. Press, St. Louis. 1996. Toward an improved classification of Lauraceae. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 83: 409-418. [with H.G. Richter]. 1997. Flora del Bajio y de regiones adyacentes. Familia Lauraceae. Fasciculo 56: 1-58. [with F. Lorea]. 1993. A revision of the genus Pleurothyrium (Lauraceae). Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 80: 39-119. 1991. A key to the genera of Lauraceae in the New World. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 78: 377-387. This page was last revised 07/02/09.