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  Nicholas J. Turland, Associate Curator
Co-Director, Flora of China Project
Missouri Botanical Garden
P.O. Box 299
St. Louis, MO 63166-0299
USA

office phone: + 1-314-577-0269
fax: +1-314-577-9596
email: nicholas.turland@mobot.org

Vice-Rapporteur, Nomenclature Section of International Botanical Congress
Secretary, Editorial Committee of International Code of Botanical Nomenclature

Nick Turland
On the summit of Mt. Olympus,
Greece
 

General Research Interests

  • Flora of China
  • Flora of the Mediterranean basin (especially Greece and Crete) and Macaronesia (North Atlantic islands)
  • Botanical nomenclature and typification of Linnaean-era plant names
  • Database development

    Research Emphases

  • Management of the Flora of China Project and production of the FOC text volumes
  • Field guide to the flora of the Cretan area (Crete and the Karpathos island group) and floristic database
  • Threatened weeds in the traditional agriculture of Crete
  • The International Code of Botanical Nomenclature

    Selected Publications

    MBG Photo Essay: Plants of northwestern Yunnan, China

  • Chilton, L. & N.J. Turland. 2007. Flora of Crete: Supplement II, Additions 1997-2007. Electronic publication at http://www.marengowalks.com/fcs.html.
  • McNeill, J., F.R. Barrie, H.M. Burdet, V. Demoulin, D.L. Hawksworth, K. Marhold, D.H. Nicolson, J. Prado, P.C. Silva, J.E. Skog, J.H. Wiersema & N.J. Turland (editors). 2006.  International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Vienna Code) adopted by the Seventeenth International Botanical Congress Vienna, Austria, July 2005. Regnum Vegetabile 146.
  • Turland, N.J. 2006. Lectotypification of Campanula saxatilis, Phyteuma pinnatum and Verbascum arcturus, Linnaean names of three taxa endemic to Crete. Willdenowia 36 (Special Issue): 303-309; also PDF (requires IP access to Willdenowia).
  • Turland, N.J. & J. Fielding; editor B. Mathew. 2005. Flowers of Crete. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Turland, N.J. & N.H. Xia. 2005. A new combination in Chinese Aesculus (Hippocastanaceae). Novon 15: 488-489.
  • McNeill, J. & N.J. Turland. 2005. Synopsis of Proposals on Botanical Nomenclature - Vienna 2005. A review of the proposals concerning the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature submitted to the XVII International Botanical Congress. Taxon 54: 215-250.
  • Turland, N.J., D. Phitos, G. Kamari & P. Bareka. 2004. Weeds of the traditional agriculture of Crete. Willdenowia 34: 381-406; also PDF (requires IP access to Willdenowia) and database (free access).
  • Turland, N.J. 2004. (1647) Proposal to conserve the name Chrysanthemum coronarium (Compositae) with a conserved type. Taxon 53: 1072-1074.
  • Zhang, Z.Y., H.D. Zhang [H.T. Chang] & N.J. Turland. 2003. Pittosporaceae. Pp. 1-17 in Wu, Z.Y., P.H. Raven & D.Y. Hong (editors), Flora of China, 9. Science Press, Beijing & Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
  • Zhang, Z.Y. & N.J. Turland. 2003. Eucommiaceae and Platanaceae. Pp. 43-45 in Wu, Z.Y., P.H. Raven & D.Y. Hong (editors), Flora of China, 9. Science Press, Beijing & Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
  • Lu, L.D. [L.T.] & N.J. Turland. 2003. Connaraceae. Pp. 435-439 in Wu, Z.Y., P.H. Raven & D.Y. Hong (editors), Flora of China, 9. Science Press, Beijing & Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
  • Lu, D.Q. & N.J. Turland. 2001. Dianthus Linnaeus [pp. 102–107], Acanthophyllum C. A. Meyer [107], and Gypsophila Linnaeus [108–113]. In Wu, Z.Y. & P.H. Raven (editors), Flora of China, 6. Science Press, Beijing & Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
  • Hong, D.Y., K.Y. Pan & N.J. Turland. 2001. Paeoniaceae. Pp. 127-132 in Wu, Z.Y. & P.H. Raven (editors), Flora of China, 6. Science Press, Beijing & Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
  • Lu [Lou], L.L. & N.J. Turland. 2001. Resedaceae. Pp. 194-195 in Wu, Z.Y. & P.H. Raven (editors), Flora of China, 8. Science Press, Beijing & Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
  • Turland, N.J. & L. Chilton. 2000. A revision of Centaurea argentea (Compositae, Cardueae), an endemic species of Kriti and Kithira (Greece). Botanika Chronika 13: 71-79.
  • Chen, S.C., S.Y. Liang, & N.J. Turland. 2000. Aletris Linnaeus [pp. 77-82], Anemarrhena Bunge [pp. 207-208], Cordyline Commerson ex R. Brown [p. 204], Diuranthera Hemsley [pp. 206-207], Dracaena Vandelli ex Linnaeus [pp. 215-217], Eremurus Marschall von Bieberstein [pp. 159-160], Gagea Salisbury [pp. 117-121], Lloydia Reichenbach [pp. 121-123], and Milula Prain [pp. 202-203]. In Wu, Z.Y. & P.H. Raven (editors), Flora of China, 24. Science Press, Beijing & Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
  • Greuter, W., J. McNeill, F.R. Barrie, H.M. Burdet, V. Demoulin, T.S. Filgueiras, D.H. Nicolson, P.C. Silva, J.E. Skog, P. Trehane, N.J. Turland, & D.L. Hawksworth (editors). 1999. International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Saint Louis Code) adopted by the Sixteenth International Botanical Congress, St. Louis, Missouri, July-August 1999. Regnum Vegetabile 138.
  • Chilton, L. & N.J. Turland. 1997. Flora of Crete -– a supplement. Marengo Publications, Retford.
  • Press, J.R., M.J. Short, & N.J. Turland (editors). 1994. Flora of Madeira. The Natural History Museum, London: HMSO.
  • Turland, N.J., L. Chilton, & J.R. Press. 1993. Flora of the Cretan area: annotated checklist & atlas. The Natural History Museum, London: HMSO.

    Click here for a complete listing of Nick's publications.

    Click here for a complete listing of Nick's publications (in pdf format; must have Adobe Acrobat to read and print).

    This page was last revised 04/04/07.

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