Tibet, September 2006 (photo by D. Bell)
Vicki Funk
Senior Research Botanist & Curator
Phone: 202-633-0950
Fax: 202-786-2563
E-mail Address: funkv@si.edu
Postal Address
(Mail and Packages):
MRC-166/Botany
Smithsonian Institution
PO Box 37012
Washington, DC 20013-7012
Courier Address:
National Museum of Natural History
West Loading Dock
10th and Constitution Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20560-0166
Education
B. S., Murray State University, Biology and History, 1969, Murray State University, Murray, KY
M. S., Murray State University, Biology, 1975. Thesis: A Floristic and Geologic Survey of Selected Seeps of Calloway County, KY.
Ph. D., Ohio State University, 1980. Thesis: The Systematics of Montanoa Cerv. (Asteraceae).
Postdoctoral Intern at the New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY, 1981.
Research Interests
Systematics of the Compositae, including monographs, checklists, phylogenies and supertrees; theory and practice of phylogenetics and biogeography, especially global Compositae distributions and Pacific Biogeography; Biodiversity, the interface between systematics and conservation biology, especially from northeastern South America
Field Work
Over 12,000 numbers collected primarily, Mexico, Andean South America, and South Africa.
Recent Publications - (All Publications)
Bonifacino, J.M., Robinson, H.E., Funk, V.A., Lack, H.W., Wagenitz, G., Feuillet, C. and Hind, D.J.N. 2009. A History of Research in Compositae: Early Beginnings to the Reading Meeting (1975). Pp. 3-38 in Funk, V.A., Susana, A., Stuessy, T.F. and Bayer, R.J. (eds.). Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae. Vienna, Austria: International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT).
Funk, V.A., Anderberg, A.A., Baldwin, B.G., Bayer, R.J., Bonifacino, J.M., Breitwieser, I., Brouillet, L., Carbajal, R., Chan, R., Coutinho, A.X.P. and Crawford, D.J. 2009. Compositae Metatrees: The Next Generation. Pp. 747-777 in Funk, V.A., Susana, A., Stuessy, T.F. and Bayer, R.J. (eds.). Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae. Vienna, Austria: International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT).
Funk, V.A. and Bonifacino, J.M. 2009. Original Figure Legends for Plates in Chapter 1. Pp. 869-871 in Funk, V.A., Susana, A., Stuessy, T.F. and Bayer, R.J. (eds.). Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae. Vienna, Austria: International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT).
Funk, V.A. and Chan, R. 2009. Introduction to Cichorioideae. Pp. 335-342 in Funk, V.A., Susana, A., Stuessy, T.F. and Bayer, R.J. (eds.). Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae. Vienna, Austria: International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT).
Funk, V.A. and Fragman-Sapir, O. 2009. Gymnarrheneae (Gymnarrhenoideae). Pp. 327-332 in Funk, V.A., Susana, A., Stuessy, T.F. and Bayer, R.J. (eds.). Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae. Vienna, Austria: International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT).
Funk, V.A. and Hind, D.J.N. 2009. Hecastocleideae (Hecastocleidoideae). Pp. 261-265 in Funk, V.A., Susana, A., Stuessy, T.F. and Bayer, R.J. (eds.). Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae. Vienna, Austria: International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT).
Funk, V.A. and Karis, P.O. 2009. Heterolepis: an unplaced genus. Pp. 483-486 in Funk, V.A., Susana, A., Stuessy, T.F. and Bayer, R.J. (eds.). Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae. Vienna, Austria: International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT).
Funk, V.A., Koekemoer, M., Robinson, H.E. and Skvarla, J.J. 2009. Platycarpheae. Pp. 471-476 in Funk, V.A., Susana, A., Stuessy, T.F. and Bayer, R.J. (eds.). Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae. Vienna, Austria: International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT).
Funk, V.A. and Robinson, H.E. 2009. Sampera, a new genus of Liabeae (Compositae or Asteraceae) from the northern Andes. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 122(2): 155-161.
Funk, V.A., Susanna, A., Steussy, T.F. and Robinson, H.E. 2009. Classification of Compositae. Pp. 171-189 in Funk, V.A., Susana, A., Stuessy, T.F. and Bayer, R.J. (eds.). Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae. Vienna, Austria: International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT).
Karis, P.O., Funk, V.A., McKenzie, R.J., Barker, N.P. and Chan, R. 2009. Arctotideae. Pp. 385-410 in Funk, V.A., Susana, A., Stuessy, T.F. and Bayer, R.J. (eds.). Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae. Vienna, Austria: International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT).
Nordenstam, B. and Funk, V.A. 2009. Corymbieae. Pp. 487-491 in Funk, V.A., Susana, A., Stuessy, T.F. and Bayer, R.J. (eds.). Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae. Vienna, Austria: International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT).
Panero, J.L. and Funk, V.A. 2009. New Tribes in Asteraceae. Phytologia 91(3): 568-570.
Funk, V.A. and Chan, R. 2008. Phylogeny of the Spiny African Daisies (Compositae, tribe Arctotideae, subtribe Gorteriinae) based on trnL-F, ndhF, and ITS sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48(1): 47-60.
Panero, J.L. and Funk, V.A. 2008. The value of sampling anomalous taxa in phylogenetic studies: Major clades of the Asteraceae revealed. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47(2): 757-782.
Wortley, A.H., Funk, V.A. and Skvarla, J.J. 2008. Pollen and the evolution of Arctotideae (Compositae). Botanical Review 74(3): 438-466.
Funk, V.A. 2007. Asteraceae. Pp. 175-180 in Kubitzki, K. (ed.). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol. VIII. Springer Verlaf.
Funk, V.A., Chan, R. and Holland, A. 2007. Cymbonotus (Compositae: Arctotideae, Arctotidinae): an endemic Australian genus embedded in a southern African clade. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 153: 1-8.
Funk, V.A., Robinson, H.E. and Dillon, M.O. 2007. Liabeae (Asteraceae). Pp. Vol in Kubitzki, K. (ed.). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Berlin: Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.
Funk, V.A. and Specht, C. 2007. Meta-trees: Grafting for a global perspective. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington (120)232-240.
Wortley, A.H., Funk, V.A., Robinson, H., Skvarla , J.J. and Blackmore, S. 2007. A Search for Pollen Morphological Synapomorphies to Classify Rogue Genera in Compositae (Asteraceae). Review of Paleobotany and Palynology 146: 169-181.
Funk, V.A. 2006. floras: A model for biodiversity studies or a thing of the past?. Taxon 55: 581-588.
Funk, V.A. 2006. Curating the collections of Jose Cuatrecasas A. (1903-1996). The Plant Press 9: 9-10.
Funk, V.A., Robinson, H.E. and Dillon, M.O. 2006. Liabeae. Pp. 175-180 in Kadereit, J.W. and Jeffreys, C. (eds.). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, Vol. 8. Flowering Plants - Eudicots - Asterales.
Holland, A.E. and Funk, V.A. 2006. A revision of Cymbonotus (Compositae: Arctotideae, Arctodidinae). Telopea 11: 266-275.
Moran, E. and Funk, V.A. 2006. A Revision of Erato (Compositae: Liabeae). Systematic Botany 31(3): 597-609.
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