Barbara Ann Whitlock | |
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Born | 1967 (age 56–57) |
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Thesis | Systematics and evolution of chocolate and its relatives (Sterculiaceae or Malvaceae s.l.) ( c. 2000) |
Author abbrev. (botany) | Whitlock |
Barbara Ann Whitlock (born 1967) [1] is a botanist, who earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University, with her dissertation Systematics and evolution of chocolate and its relatives (Sterculiaceae or Malvaceae s.l.) c. 2000, [2] an interest which continues. [3]
She has been working in the Department of Biology, University of Miami from at least 2015, [3] where she works on tropical (plant) biology, and ecology and evolutionary biology. [4] [5]
Much of her work centres on Malvaceae and related phylogeny. [6] [7] [8] [9]
She has published 39 names, [1] including Androcalva fraseri, and Commersonia borealis. (See also Taxa named by Barbara Ann Whitlock.)
The standard author abbreviation Whitlock is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. [1]