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Research Highlights
Our researchers study some of the largest genera of flowering plants in the world, with consequent issues of conserving rare plants, assessing biodiversity, and conveying that information to the interested public in a timely manner. Some focus on tropical plants, how and when they disperse between continents, and how they evolve across wide swaths of tropical forests. Ultimately we strive to contribute knowledge and expertise about the growing loss of biodiversity worldwide on both the local and global level.
Michigan and the Great Lakes Research
Michael Penskar
Rare and endangered species of Michigan
Anton A. Reznicek
Floristics of the Great Lakes Region
Edward G. Voss
Michigan Floristics, Floristics of the Great Lakes Region
Global Research
Christiane Anderson
Systematics of the tropical family Malpighiaceae*
William R. Anderson
Systematics of the tropical family Malpighiaceae*
Paul E. Berry
A global inventory of the spurge genus Euphorbia*
Latin American Plants Imaging Initiative
Christopher Dick
Tree diversity in tropical forest plots*
Timothy James
Fungal diversity and evolution
Jeffery Morawetz
Systematics of tropical Orobanchaceae
Systematics of Euphorbia and Euphorbia subgenus Esula
Richard Rabeler
Taxonomy and distribution of Caryophyllaceae
Anton A. Reznicek
Systematics and diversity of Cyperaceae
Ricarda Riina
Systematics of Croton and Euphorbia
Florence Wagner
Pteridophytes of Hawaii
Michael J. Wynne
Marine algae of the tropical and subtropical Western Atlantic, the Northern Arabian sea and systematic treatment of the red algal family Delesseriaceae.
*asterisks denote funding by the National Science Foundation
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Species Focus:
Cordyceps militaris
Cordyceps militaris is shown here producing an ascocarp (stroma) from
the parasitized body of a beetle larva. C. militaris is common
throughout North America on buried insect larvae and pupae. Fruiting
structure is an elongate stroma within which are embedded numerous
spore-containing perithecia.
Photo: T. James |
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