Pedro Acevedo
Research Botanist & Curator
Phone: 202-633-0963
Fax: 202-786-2563
E-mail Address: ACEVEDOP@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
BS, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. MAY 1977.`Ph.D., City University of New York, New York. MAY 1989.
Dissertation: The systematic of Serjania sect Platycoccus (Sapindaceae).
Research Interests
Systematics of Sapindaceae, floristics of the West Indies, especially of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
Recent Publications - (All Publications)
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro 2012. Alatococcus, a new genus of Sapindaceae from Espirito Santo, Brazil. PhytoKeys, 10: 1-5. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.10.2718Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro and Strong, Mark T. 2012. Catalogue of Seed Plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany, 98(98): 1-1192. doi:10.5479/si.0081024X.98.1
Miller, James S., Porter-Morgan, Holly A., Stevens, Hannah, Boom, Brian, Krupnick, Gary A., Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro, Fleming, James and Gensler, Micah 2012. Addressing target two of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation by rapidly identifying plants at risk. Biodiversity and Conservation, 21(7): 1877-1887. doi:10.1007/s10531-012-0285-3
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro 2011. Allophylastrum: a new genus of Sapindaceae from northern South America. PhytoKeys, 5: 39-43.
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro 2011. Four new species of Sapindaceae from the Guianas. PhytoKeys, 7: 11-20. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.7.1956
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro, Van Welzen, P. C., Adema, F. and Ham,R. W. J. M. van der 2011. Sapindaceae. In: Kubitzki, Klaus, Flowering Plants.Eudicots: Sapindales, Cucurbitales, Myrtaceae. Springer,(The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants) pp.357-407.
Buerki, Sven, Forest, Félix, Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro, Callmander, Martin W., Nylander, Johan A. A., Harrington, Mark, Sanmartín, Isabel, Küpfer, Philippe and Alvarez, Nadir 2009. Plastid and nuclear DNA markers reveal intricate relationships at subfamilial and tribal levels in the soapberry family (Sapindaceae). Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 51(2): 238-258.
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