Kenneth Wurdack
Research Botanist & Associate Curator
Phone: 202-633-0916
Fax: 202-786-2563
E-mail Address: wurdackk@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
Research Interests
Systematic biology: Systematics, phylogenetics, and biogeography of Euphorbiaceae s.l. and other Malpighiales; also Thymelaeaceae.
Evolutionary biology: plant-insect interactions, especially pertaining to ants and myrmecophytic associations.
Floristic work: neotropics, southeastern USA, Molecular biology: genome evolution especially in plant mitochondria; processes of molecular evolution.
History of science: botanical exploration and natural history, especially pertaining to 19th century southeastern USA.
Recent Publications - (All Publications)
Wurdack, K.J. and Davis, C.C. 2009. Malpighiales phylogenetics: Gaining ground on one of the most recalcitrant clades in the angiosperm tree of life. American Journal of Botany 96(8): 1551-1570.
Wurdack, K.L. and Dorr, L.J. 2009. The South American genera of Hemerocallidaceae (Eccremis and Pasithea): two introductions to the New World. Taxon 58(4): 1122-1132.
Daniell, H., Wurdack, K.J., Kanagaraj, A., Lee, S.B., Saski, C. and Jansen, R.K. 2008. The complete nucleotide sequence of the cassava (Manihot esculenta) chloroplast genome and the evolution of atpF in Malpighiales: RNA editing and multiple losses of a group II intron. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 116(5): 723-737.
Reveal, J.L., Hoffmann, P., Doweld, A. and Wurdack, K.J. 2007. Proposal to conserve the name Phyllanthaceae. Taxon 56(1): 266.
Hoffmann, P., Kathriarachchi, H. and Wurdack, K. 2006. A phylogenetic classification of Phyllanthaceae (Malpighiales; Euphorbiaceae sensu lato). Kew Bulletin 61(1): 37-53.
Hoffmann, P. and Wurdack, K.J. 2006. Radcliffea, a new genus of Euphorbiaceae sensu stricto from Madagascar. Kew Bulletin 61(2): 193-197.
Kathriarachchi, H., Samuel, R., Hoffmann, P., Mlinarec, J., Wurdack, K., Ralimanana, H., Stuessy, T. and Chase, M. 2006. Phylogenetics of tribe Phyllantheae (Phyllanthaceae; Euphorbiaceae sensu lato) based on nrITS and plastid matK DNA sequence data. American Journal of Botany 93(4): 637-655.
Wurdack, K. 2006. The lectotypification and 19th century history of Croton alabamensis. Sida 22(1): 469-483.
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