Alexandra Knapp

Res apud Vicidata repertae:

Nativitas: 9 Decembris 1956;
Patria: Britanniarum Regnum

Officium

Officium: President of the Linnean Society of London
Munus: botanista, curator, botanical collector
Patronus: Museum Historiae Naturalis

Memoria

Laurae: Linnean Medal, honorary doctorate, Prix P.-J.-Redouté, Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, Societatis Regalis Londiniensis socius, David Fairchild Medal, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Peter Raven Award, Engler Medal in Gold

Alexandra Knapp, vulgo plenius Sandra Diane Knapp (nata anno 1956), botanista, apud Museum Historiae Naturalis Londiniense operam dat. De genere Solano et familia Solanacearum inter alias res inquirit.

Alumna est Collegii Pomonensis in California universitatisque Cornellianae, ubi, discipula Michaelis Whalen mox morituri, gradum doctoris ascendit. Socia est et quondam praeses Societatis Linnaeanae Londiniensis. Anno 2022 socia Regalis Societatis electa est.

Prima omnium descriptiones botanicas Latinas rite divulgavit non per impressa sed per interrete, commentatione "Four New Vining Species of Solanum ..." apud libellos electronicos PLoS One anno 2010 edita,^[1] sicut ipsa iam anno 2007 utile fore suaserat.^[2] Descriptiones Latinae interretiales anno 2011 apud Congressum botanicum internationale XVIII, Melburniae celebratum, rite recognitae sunt.^[3] Periodicum interretiale apertum PhytoKeys, anno 2010 conditum, ipsa cum aliis edit.^[4]

Scripta selecta[recensere | fontem recensere]

Libri

1994– (cum aliis) : Flora Mesoamericana
1997 (photographo Nick Knight) : Flora
1999 : Footsteps in the Forest: Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazon
2002 : Solanum Section Geminata (Solanaceae) (Flora Neotropica Monograph, no. 84). Novi Eboraci: New York Botanical Garden Press, 2002
2003 : Plant Discoveries: A Botanist's Voyage Through Plant Exploration. Londinii: Scriptum
2003 : Potted Histories: An Artistic Voyage Through Plant Exploration. Londinii: Scriptum
2005 (cum J. R. Press) : The Gilded Canopy: Botanical Ceiling Panels of the Natural History Museum
2008 (cum Iris E. Peralta [prima auctrice] et David M. Spooner) : Taxonomy of Wild Tomatoes and their Relatives (Solanum sect. Lycopersicoides, sect. Juglandifolia, sect. Lycopersicon; Solanaceae). Ann Arbor: American Society of Plant Taxonomists, 2008. ISBN 978-0-912861-84-5
2009 (editrix cum Quentin D. Wheeler) : Letters to Linnaeus
2010 (editrix, David M. Williams primo editore) : Beyond Cladistics. Berkeleiae: University of California Press (Paginae selectae apud Google Books)
2013 : A revision of the Dulcamaroid Clade of Solanum L. (Solanaceae) (PhytoKeys, vol. 22) Textus (Textus)
2014 : Flora: An Artistic Voyage Through the World of Plants. Londinii: Allen & Unwin
2016 (cum Maria S. Vorontsova) : A Revision of the "Spiny Solanums", Solanum subgenus Leptostemonum (Solanaceae) in Africa and Madagascar (Systematic Botany Monographs vol. 99. 2016) JSTOR
2016 (cum Maria S. Vorontsova) : A revision of the “African Non-Spiny” Clade of Solanum L. (Solanum sections Afrosolanum Bitter, Benderianum Bitter, Lemurisolanum Bitter, Lyciosolanum Bitter, Macronesiotes Bitter, and Quadrangulare Bitter: Solanaceae) (PhytoKeys vol. 66)
2019 (cum Lynn Bohs, Gloria Barboza, Tiina Särkinen) : A revision of the Morelloid Clade of Solanum L. (Solanaceae) in North and Central America and the Caribbean (PhytoKeys, vol. 123)
2021 : Extraordinary Orchids. Londinii: Natural History Museum (Paginae selectae apud Google Books)
2022 : In the Name of Plants: From Attenborough to Washington, the People Behind Plant Names. Chicagine: University of Chicago Press
2022 : A revision of Lycianthes (Solanaceae) in Australia, New Guinea, and the Pacific (PhytoKeys, vol. 209)
2022 (cum Xavier Aubriot) : A revision of the “spiny solanums” of Tropical Asia (Solanum, the Leptostemonum Clade, Solanaceae) (PhytoKeys, vol. 198)

Commentationes

1991 (cum Thomas Mione et Abundio Sagástegui A.) : "A New Species of Jaltomata (Solanaceae) from Northwestern Peru" in Brittonia vol. 43 (1991) pp. 181-184 JSTOR
2002 : "Tobacco to tomatoes: a phylogenetic perspective on fruit diversity in the Solanaceae" in Journal of Experimental Botany vol. 53 (2002) pp. 2001–2022
2003 (cum James Mallet) : "Refuting Refugia" in Science vol. 300 no. 5616 (4 Aprilis 2003) pp. 71-72 prima pagina
2006 (cum Katherine J. Willis et Lindsey Gillson) : "Biodiversity hotspots through time: an introduction" in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (19 Decembris 2006)
2006 (cum Michael Nee [primo auctore] et Lynn Bohs) : "New Species of Solanum and Capsicum (Solanaceae) from Bolivia, with Clarification of Nomenclature in Some Bolivian Solanum" in Brittonia vol. 58 (2006) pp. 322-356 JSTOR
2007 (cum A. Polaszek et M. Watson) : "Spreading the Word" in Nature vol. 446 (2007) pp. 261-262
2008 : "Typification of Solanum (Solanaceae) species described by Martín de Sessé y Lacasta and José Mariano Mociño" in Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid vol. 65 (2008) pp. 7-23
2010 : "Four New Vining Species of Solanum (Dulcamaroid Clade) from Montane Habitats in Tropical America" in PLoS One (5 Maii 2010)
2010 (cum Lyubomir Penev 9primnus auctor] aliisque) : "Fast, linked, and open – the future of taxonomic publishing for plants: launching the journal PhytoKeys" in PhytoKeys vol. 1 (2010) pp. 1-14
2010 (cum Maria S. Vorontsova) : "Lost Berlin (B) types of Solanum (Solanaceae) found in Gottingen (GOET)" in Taxon vol. 59 (2010) pp. 1585–1601
2010 (cum David M. Williams et Kâre Bremer) : "Chris Humphries, Cladistics, and Connections" in Beyond Cladistics (Berkeleiae: University of California Press) pp. 19-35 (Paginae selectae apud Google Books)
2011 : "Rarity, Species Richness, and the Threat of Extinction—Are Plants the Same as Animals?" in PLoS Biology (24 Maii 2011)
2011 (cum John McNeill, Nicholas J. Turland) : "Changes to publication requirements made at the XVIII International Botanical Congress in Melbourne - what does e-publication mean for you?" in PhytoKeys vol. 6 (2011) pp. 5-11
2012 [a] (cum Maria S. Vorontsova) : "A new species of Solanum (Solanaceae) from South Africa related to the cultivated eggplant" in PhytoKeys vol. 8 (2012) pp. 1-11
2012 [b] (cum Maria S. Vorontsova) : "Solanum sections Oliganthes, Melongena and Monodolichopus" in Jennifer M. Edmonds, Flora of Tropical East Africa: Solanaceae (Ricmondiae: Royal Botanic Gadens, Kew, 2012) pp. 164–186, 198–215, 220–223 de hoc volumine
2013 (cum Tiina Särkinen [prima auctrice], Lynn Bohs, Richard G. Olmstead) : "A phylogenetic framework for evolutionary study of the nightshades (Solanaceae): a dated 1000-tip tree" in BMC Evolutionary Biology vol. 13 (2013) 214
2013 (cum Maria S. Vorontsova) : "From introduced American weed to Cape Verde Islands endemic: the case of Solanum rigidum Lam. (Solanaceae, Solanum subgenus Leptostemonum)" in PhytoKeys vol. 25 (2013) pp. 35–46
2013 (cum Maria S. Vorontsova [prima auctrice], Stephen Stern, Lynn Bohs) : "African spiny Solanum (subgenus Leptostemonum, Solanaceae): a thorny phylogenetic tangle" in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society vol. 173 (2013) pp. 176–193
2013 (cum Maria S. Vorontsova, Jaime Prohens) : "Wild Relatives of the Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.: Solanaceae): New Understanding of Species Names in a Complex Group" in PLoS One (22 Februarii 2013)
2013 (cum Tiina Särkinen, Paúl Gonzáles) : "Distribution models and species discovery: the story of a new Solanum species from the Peruvian Andes" in PhytoKeys vol. 31 (2013) pp. 1-12
2015 (cum John L. Clark [primo auctore], Michael Nee, Lynn Bohs) : "A Revision of Solanum Section Aculeigerum (the Solanum wendlandii Group, Solanaceae)" in Systematic Botany vol. 40 (2015) pp. 1102–1136 JSTOR
2019 (cum Yuri Fernandes Gouvêa [primus auctor] et João Renato Stehmann) : "Solanum medusae (Solanaceae), a new wolf-fruit from Brazil, and a key to the extra-Amazonian Brazilian Androceras/Crinitum Clade species" in PhytoKeys vol. 118 (2019) pp. 15-32
2019 (cum Maria S. Vorontsova, Tiina Särkinen) : "Dichotomous keys to the species of Solanum L. (Solanaceae) in continental Africa, Madagascar (incl. the Indian Ocean islands), Macaronesia and the Cape Verde Islands" in PhytoKeys vol. 127 (2019) pp. 39-76
2020 (cum Donald H. R. McClelland et Michael Nee) : "New names and status for Pacific spiny species of Solanum (Solanaceae, subgenus Leptostemonum Bitter; the Leptostemonum Clade)" in PhytoKeys vol. 145 (2020) pp. 1-36

Siglum eius nominibus botanicis subscriptum est "S.Knapp" (apud IPNI reperiendum)

Notae[recensere | fontem recensere]

↑ Knapp (2010); Cressey (2010)
↑ Knapp et al. (2007)
↑ Knapp et al. (2011); W. John Kress, Lyubomir Penev, "Innovative electronic publication in plant systematics: PhytoKeys and the changes to the “Botanical Code” accepted at the XVIII International Botanical Congress in Melbourne" in PhytoKeys vol. 6 (2011) pp. 1-4
↑ Penev et al. (2010)

Bibliographia[recensere | fontem recensere]

Daniel Cressey, "Linnaeus meets the Internet" in Nature (5 Maii 2010)

Nexus externi[recensere | fontem recensere]

Lexica biographica: • IPNI

Dr. Sandra Knapp" apud Academia.net
Vita brevis olim sub rubrica Women and the Environment divulgata
Data olim apud Solanaceae Source divulgata

[1] Knapp (2010); Cressey (2010)

[2] Knapp et al. (2007)

[3] Knapp et al. (2011); W. John Kress, Lyubomir Penev, "Innovative electronic publication in plant systematics: PhytoKeys and the changes to the “Botanical Code” accepted at the XVIII International Botanical Congress in Melbourne" in PhytoKeys vol. 6 (2011) pp. 1-4

[4] Penev et al. (2010)

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