Research Projects
Herbarium staff and students participate in diverse projects spanning traditional morphological plant systematics, floristics, plant anatomy, molecular analysis and pollination ecology. Our major focus areas include the plant families Orchidaceae, Ericaceae and Melastomataceae, Angiosperm family phylogeny, Florida floristic inventories and cultivated plant systematics.
Molecular and Morphological Plant Systematic Studies
- Barcoding Florida Plants Project
- Melastomataceae of the World
- Molecular Systematics and Pollination Biology of Sobralieae (Orchidaceae)
- Molecular Systematics of Oncidiinae (Orchidaceae) and the Evolution of CAM
- Molecular Systematics of Asimina (Annonaceae)
- Orchid Tree: a phylogeny of epiphytes on the tree of life
- Phylogenetics of Maxillariinae (Orchidaceae)
- Phylogenetics of Pleurothallidinae: resolving generic limits in a large group of small orchids
- Phylogeny of the Melanthiaceae (Liliales)
- Soltis lab - affiliated program in molecular systematics and evolutionary genetics
Floristic Projects
- Floristic Inventory of Kanapaha Botanical Gardens
- Generic Flora of the Southeastern United States project
- Local Flora: Vascular Plants of North Central Florida
- Trees of the University of Florida - numerical and alphabetical lists of the numbered trees on campus.
Publications by Staff, Student and Affiliated Researchers (in herbarium library database)
