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Gordon McPherson, Ph.D.
Curator
Africa and Madagascar

office phone: + 1 (314) 577-9571
fax: + 1 (314) 577-0820
email: gordon.mcpherson@mobot.org

Missouri Botanical Garden
P.O. Box 299
St. Louis, MO 63166-0299
USA

Education
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1979
M.S., University of Alberta, 1972
B.S., University of Saskatchewan, 1969
Euphorbiaceae of Madagascar Flora of New Caledonia Flora of Gabon Flora of Panama Checklist of the Fortuna Watershed, Chiriqui, Panama Checklist of the Lope-Okanda Reserve, Gabon, Africa
Available upon request
Elaeocarpus tremulus Tirel & McPherson, nouvelle espèce d’Elaeocarpaceae de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Adansonia, ser. 3, 28:137-141. 2006. [with C. Tirel] Deforestation and plant diversity of Madagascar’s littoral forests. Conservation Biology 20:1799-1803. 2006 [with T. Consiglio et al.] Hooglandia, a newly discovered genus of Cunoniaceae from New Caledonia. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 91:260-265. 2004. [with P. Lowry] Transfer of Madagascan Glochidion to Phyllanthus (Euphorbiaceae s.l. or Phyllanthaceae). Novon 13:307-310. 2003. [with Petra Hoffmann] Euphorbiaceae, in The natural history of Madagascar, 2003, eds S. M. Goodman & J.P. University of Chicago Press. [with Petra Hoffmann] Melanophylla angustior (Melanophyllaceae), a new species from southeastern Madagascar. Adansonia, sér. 3, 24: 263-265. 2002. [with J. Rabenantoandro] Drypetes (Euphorbiaceae) in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. Adansonia, sér. 3, 22:205-209. 2000. Blotia leandriana (Euphorbiaceae-Phyllanthoideae), a new species from eastern Madagascar. Novon 7: 249-251. 1997. A new species of Xerophyta (Velloziaceae) from Madagascar. Novon 7:387-394. 1997. [with H. van der Werff & R. Keating] A new species of Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae) from Madagascar. Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Sect. B (Adansonia), 4 Ser., 18: 275-278. 1996. On Mallotus and Deuteromallotus (Euphorbiaceae) in Madagascar. Novon 5:287-289. 1995. List of plant species identified in the northern part of the Lope Reserve, Gabon. Tropics 3: 249-276. 1994. [with C.E.G. Tutin, L.J.T. White, E.A. Williamson, & M. Fernandez] Euphorbiaceae II. In: Flore de la Nouvelle-Caledonia et Dependances, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. 1990. [with M. Schmid] Euphorbiaceae I. In: Flore de la Nouvelle-Caledonia et Dependances, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. 1987. Scagea, a new genus of Euphorbiaceae from New Caledonia. Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Sect. B (Adansonia), 4 Ser., 6: 461-464. 1985.