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Botany Staff

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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.

Complete CV

Recent Publications - (All Publications)

Roque, Nádia and Funk, Vicky A. 2013. Morphological characters add support for some members of the basal grade of Asteraceae. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 171(3): 568-586. doi:10.1111/boj.12000

Tellería, María C., Sancho, Gisela, Funk, Vicky A., Ventosa, Iralys and Roque, Nadia 2013. Pollen morphology and its taxonomic significance in the tribe Gochnatieae (Compositae, Gochnatioideae). Plant Systematics and Evolution, 299(5): 935-948. doi:10.1007/s00606-013-0774-1

Bonifacino, José M. and Funk, Vicki A. 2012. Phylogenetics of the Chiliotrichum group (Compositae: Astereae): The story of the fascinating radiation in the paleate Astereae genera from southern South America. Taxon, 61(1): 180-196.

Funk, Vicki A., Kelloff, Carol and Chan, Raymund 2012. Phylogeny and biogeography of the tribe Liabeae (Compositae subfamily Cichorioideae). Taxon, 61(2): 437-455.

Knope, Matthew L., Morden, Clifford W., Funk, Vicki A. and Fukami, Tadashi 2012. Area and the rapid radiation of Hawaiian Bidens (Asteraceae). Journal of Biogeography, 39(7): 1206-1216. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02687.x

Nie, Ze-Long, Funk, Vicki A., Sun, Hang, Deng, Tao, Meng, Ying and Wen, Jun 2012. Molecular phylogeny of Anaphalis (Asteraceae, Gnaphalieae) with biogeographic implications in the Northern Hemisphere. Journal of Plant Research, 126(1): 17-32. doi:10.1007/s10265-012-0506-6

Robinson, Harold E. and Funk, Vicki A. 2012. Cuatrecasanthus (Vernonieae, Compositae): A revision of a north-central Andean genus. PhytoKeys, 14: 23-41.

Funk, Vicki A. and Koekemoer, Marinda 2011. A Monograph of the Small Tribe Platycarpheae (Compositae: Cichorioideae). Systematic Botany, 36(1): 191-208.

Funk, Vicki A. and Roque, Nádia 2011. The monotypic Andean genus Fulcaldea (Compositae, Barnadesioideae) gains a new species from northeastern Brazil. Taxon, 60(4): 1095-1103.

Keeley, Sterling and Funk, Vicki A. 2011. Origin and Evolution of Hawaiian Endemics: New Patterns Revealed by Molecular Phylogenetic Studies. In: Bramwell, David and Caujape-Castells, J., Biology of Island Floras. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Press, pp.57-88.

Kelloff, Carol L., Alexander, Sara N., Funk, Vicki A. and Clarke, H. David 2011. Smithsonian Plant Collections, Guyana: 1995–2004, H. David Clarke. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany, 97(97): 1-307. doi:10.5479/si.0081024X.97.1

Miller, James S., Funk, Vicki A., Wagner, Warren L., Barrie, Fred R., Hoch, Peter C. and Herendeen, Patrick 2011. Outcomes of the 2011 Botanical Nomenclature Section at the XVIII International Botanical Congress. PhytoKeys, 5: 1-3.

Robinson, Harold E. and Funk, Vicki A. 2011. A new genus, Nothovernonia, from tropical Africa (Asteraceae or Compositae: Vernonieae). PhytoKeys, 3: 21-34.

Robinson, Harold E. and Funk, Vicki A. 2011. Stephanbeckia plumosa (Liabeae: Compositae): A new genus and species from southern Bolivia. Brittonia, 63(1): 75-82.

Thiele, Kevin R., Funk, Vicki A., Iwatsuki, Kunio, Morat, Philippe, Peng, Ching-I, Raven, Peter H., Sarukhan, Jose and Seberg, Ole 2011. The controversy over the retypification of Acacia Mill. with an Australian type: A pragmatic view. Taxon, 60(1): 194-198.

Baird, Kristen E., Funk, Vicki A., Wen, Jun and Weeks, Andrea 2010. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of Leibnitzia Cass. (Asteraceae: Mutisieae: Gerbera-complex), an Asian–North American disjunct genus. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 48(3): 161-174.

Funk, Vicki A. 2010. Ten things I learned on the way to the Mother Tree. Compositae Newsletter, 48: 6-21.

Garcia-Milagros, Eduardo and Funk, Vicki A. 2010. Improving the use of information from museum specimens: Using Google Earth^© to georeference Guiana Shield specimens in the US National Herbarium. Frontiers of Biogeography, 2(3): 71-77.

Robinson, Gene E., Banks, Jody A., Padilla, Dianna K., Burggren, Warren W., Cohen, C. Sarah, Delwiche, Charles F., Funk, Vicki A., Hoekstra, Hopi E., Jarvis, Erich D., Johnson, Loretta, Martindale, Mark Q., del Rio, Carlos Martinez, Medina, Monica, Salt, David E., Sinha, Saurabh, Specht, Chelsea, Strange, Kevin, Strassmann, Joan E., Swalla, Billie J. and Tomanek, Lars 2010. Empowering 21st Century Biology. Bioscience, 60(11): 923-930. doi:10.1525/bio.2010.60.11.8

Bonifacino, José M., Robinson, Harold E., Funk, Vicki A., Lack, H. W., Wagenitz, G., Feuillet, Christian and Hind, D. J. N. 2009. A History of Research in Compositae: Early Beginnings to the Reading Meeting (1975). In: Funk, Vicki A., Susana, A., Stuessy, T. F. and Bayer, Randall J., Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae. Vienna, Austria: International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT), pp.3-38.

Funk, Vicki A., Anderberg, Arne A., Baldwin, Bruce G., Bayer, Randall J., Bonifacino, José Mauricio, Breitwieser, Ilse, Brouillet, Luc, Carbajal, Rodrigo, Chan, Raymund, Coutinho, Antonio X. P. and Crawford, D. J. 2009. Compositae Metatrees: The Next Generation. In: Funk, Vicki A., Susana, A., Stuessy, T. F. and Bayer, Randall J., Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae. Vienna, Austria: International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT), pp.747-777.

Funk, Vicki A. and Bonifacino, José Mauricio 2009. Original Figure Legends for Plates in Chapter 1. In: Funk, Vicki A., Susana, A., Stuessy, T. F. and Bayer, Randall J., Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae. Vienna, Austria: International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT), pp.869-871.

Funk, Vicki A. and Chan, Raymund 2009. Introduction to Cichorioideae. In: Funk, Vicki A., Susana, A., Stuessy, T. F. and Bayer, Randall J., Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae. Vienna, Austria: International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT), pp.335-342.

Funk, Vicki A. and Fragman-Sapir, Ori 2009. Gymnarrheneae (Gymnarrhenoideae). In: Funk, Vicki A., Susana, A., Stuessy, T. F. and Bayer, Randall J., Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae. Vienna, Austria: International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT), pp.327-332.

Funk, Vicki A. and Hind, D. J. N. 2009. Hecastocleideae (Hecastocleidoideae). In: Funk, Vicki A., Susana, A., Stuessy, T. F. and Bayer, Randall J., Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae. Vienna, Austria: International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT), pp.261-265.

Funk, Vicki A. and Karis, Per Ola 2009. Heterolepis: an unplaced genus. In: Funk, Vicki A., Susana, A., Stuessy, T. F. and Bayer, Randall J., Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae. Vienna, Austria: International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT), pp.483-486.

Funk, Vicki A., Koekemoer, Marinda, Robinson, Harold E. and Skvarla, John J. 2009. Platycarpheae. In: Funk, Vicki A., Susana, A., Stuessy, T. F. and Bayer, Randall J., Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae. Vienna, Austria: International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT), pp.471-476.

Funk, Vicki A. and Robinson, Harold E. 2009. Eremothamneae. In: Systematics, evolution, and biogeography of Compositae. Vienna: International Association for Plant Taxonomy, pp.411-416.

Funk, Vicki A. and Robinson, Harold 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, Vicki A. and Robinson, Harold E. 2009. A new tribe Platycarpheae and a new genus Platycarphella in the Cichorioideae (Compositae or Asteraceae). Compositae Newsletter, 47: 24-27.

Funk, Vicki A., Susanna, A., Stuessy, T. F. and Bayer, Randall J.. 2009. Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae. Vienna: International Association for Plant Taxonomy.

Funk, Vicki A., Susanna, Alfonso, Steussy, Tod F. and Robinson, Harold E. 2009. Classification of Compositae. In: Funk, Vicki A., Susana, A., Stuessy, T. F. and Bayer, Randall J., Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae. Vienna, Austria: International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT), pp.171-189.

Karis, Per O., Funk, Vicki A., McKenzie, Robert J., Barker, Nigel P. and Chan, Raymund 2009. Arctotideae. In: Funk, Vicki A., Susana, A., Stuessy, T. F. and Bayer, Randall J., Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae. Vienna, Austria: International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT), pp.385-410.

Nordenstam, Bertil and Funk, Vicki A. 2009. Corymbieae. In: Funk, Vicki A., Susana, A., Stuessy, T. F. and Bayer, Randall J., Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae. Vienna, Austria: International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT), pp.487-491.

Panero, Jose L. and Funk, Vicki A. 2009. New Tribes in Asteraceae. Phytologia, 91(3): 568-570.

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