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  Roy E. Gereau
Assistant Curator, Africa and Madagascar Department
Director of Tanzania Botanical Research and Conservation Programme

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

office phone: + 1-314-577-9574
fax: +1-314-577-9596
email: roy.gereau@mobot.org

Roy E. Gereau
 


M.S., Michigan Technological University, 1978
B.S., Michigan Technological University, 1975
B.A., University of Iowa, 1969

General Research Interests

  • Floristics and phytogeography of eastern Africa
  • Systematics of Ancistrocladaceae
  • Taxonomy and systematics of African Sapindaceae
  • Systematics of Sapindales and clarification of family circumscriptions

    Research Emphases

  • Supervision of Tanzania Botanical Training Programme
  • Supervision of " Plant Conservation Assessment in the Eastern Arc Mountains and Coastal Forests of Tanzania and Kenya".
  • Completion of taxonomic revision of Ancistrocladaceae
  • Taxonomic revisions of Afro-Malagasy genera Allophylus, Beguea, Tina (Sapindaceae)
  • Completion of checklists for Lake Nyasa Climatic Region and Gombe National Park (Tanzania)

    Selected Publications

  • Kenfack, D., G. Gosline, R. E. Gereau & G. E. Schatz. 2003. The genus Uvariopsis (Annonaceae) in tropical Africa, with a recombination and one new species from Cameroon. Novon 13: 443-449.
  • Gereau, R. E. & G. M. Walters. 2003. Chamaecrista mwangokae (Fabaceae, Caesalpinioideae), a new species from the Southern Highlands of Tanzania. Novon 13: 438-442.
  • Goldblatt, P., J. C. Manning & R. E. Gereau. 2002. Nomenclatural Clarifications in Aristea Sect. Racemosae (Iridaceae) in the Cape Flora of South Africa. Novon 12: 190-195.
  • Gereau, R. E. 2001. New names in African Celastraceae and Rutaceae. Novon 11: 43-44.
  • Gereau, R. E. 2001. Aizoaceae, Aloaceae, Basellaceae, Bataceae, Chenopodiaceae, Liliaceae, Molluginaceae, Portulacaceae. In: W. D. Stevens, C. Ulloa Ulloa, A. Pool & O. M. Montiel (eds.), Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85: 48-49, 56, 395-397, 603-604, 1219-1228, 1507-1508, 2180-2183.
  • Gereau, R. E. & D. Kenfack. 2000. Le genre Uvariopsis (Annonaceae) en Afrique tropicale, avec une espèce nouvelle du Cameroun. Adansonia, sér. 3, 22: 39-43.
  • Gereau, R. E. 1999. Agavaceae, Alliaceae, Anthericaceae, Asparagaceae, Asphodelaceae, Asteliaceae, Dracaenaceae, Melanthiaceae, Phormiaceae. In: P. M. Jørgensen & S. Léon-Yánez (eds.), Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador, Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75: 200, 202, 216-217, 260, 440, 561, 784.
  • Schatz, G. E., P. P. Lowry II & R. E. Gereau. 1999. A revision of the Malagasy endemic genus Chouxia Capuron (Sapindaceae). Adansonia, sér. 3, 21: 51-62.
  • Gereau, R. E. 1998. A new combination in Tarenna (Rubiaceae) from Central Africa. Novon 8: 140. 1998.
  • Gereau, R. E. & P. Vorster. Encephalartos ituriensis (Zamiaceae): an emended description. Adansonia, sér. 3: 20: 211-216.
  • Gereau, R. E. 1997. Typification of names in Ancistrocladus Wall. (Ancistrocladaceae). Novon 7: 242-245.
  • Lovett, J. C., R. E. Gereau & K. J. Sidwell. 1994. Vegetation and phytogeography of the Kitulo Plateau, southern Tanzania. Pp. 1025-1041 in: J. H. Seyani & A. C. Chikuni (eds.), Proceedings of the XIIIth Plenary Meeting of AETFAT, Zomba, Malawi, 2-11 April 1991. National Herbarium and Botanic Gardens of Malawi, Zomba.
    For Gereau's complete CV with list of publications, click here (Adobe Acrobat Reader required).

    This page was revised 09/20/06

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