Research Staff

John F. Pruski, M.Sc.
Assistant Curator, Flora Mesoamericana
Latin America

office phone: + 1 (314) 577-0832
fax: + 1 (314) 577-0830
email: john.pruski@mobot.org

Missouri Botanical Garden
4344 Shaw Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63110
USA

Editorial Experience Comité Asesor, Acta Botanica Venezuelica, 1998-present Associate Editor, Brittonia 1983-1993

Systematics of Mesoamerican Compositae Phylogeny of Compositae Systematics of American Mutisieae (Compositae) Systematics of Calea (Compositae) Floristics of the Guayana Shield and Amazonia
See Also: Flora of Venezuelan Guayana Home Page

Available upon request

Pruski, J.F. & G. Sancho. (expected 2002). Asteraceae (Aster Family). In: Smith, N.P., et al. (eds.), Flowering Plant Families of the American Tropics. Princeton University Press/New York Botanical Garden Press. (Submitted) Pruski, J.F. 2002. Asteraceae (Composite Family). Pp. 93-116. In: Mori, S.A., et al., Guide to the vascular plants of central French Guiana. Part 2. Dicotyledons. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 76(2). (In press). Nakajima, J.N., R.L. Esteves, V. Gonçalves-Esteves, M.A.G. Magenta, R.S. Bianchini, J.F. Pruski & D.J.N. Hind. 2001. Flora Fanerogâmica da Reserva do Parque Estadula das Fontes do Ipiranga (São Paulo, Brasil): 159-Asteraceae. Hoehnia 28: 111-181. Holmes, W.C. & J.F. Pruski. 2000. New Species of Mikania (Compositae: Eupatorieae) from Ecuador and Peru. Syst. Bot. 25: 571-576. Pruski, J.F. 1999. Gurania lobata (Cucurbitaceae), a new combination for an overlooked Linnaean name. Brittonia 51: 326-330. Pruski, J.F. 1998. Novelties in Calea (Compositae: Heliantheae) from South America. Kew Bull. 53: 683-693 Pruski, J.F. 1997. Asteraceae. Pp. 177-393. In: Steyermark, J.A., et al. (eds.), Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana, Vol. 3, Araliaceae-Cactaceae. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis. Pruski, J.F. 1996. Compositae of the Guayana Highland-XI. Tuberculocarpus gen. nov. and some other Ecliptinae (Heliantheae). Novon 6: 404 - 418. Robinson, H.E., V. Funk, J.F. Pruski & R.M. King. 1996. José Cuatrecasas Arumí. Compositae Newsl. 29: 1-30 Pruski, J.F. 1991. Compositae of the Guayana Highland-V. The Mutisieae of the Lost World of Brazil, Colombia, and Guyana. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Série Botânica 7: 335-392. Holmgren, P.K., D. Johnson, J.A. Kallunki, S. Keller, N. Murray, J.F. Pruski & M.A. Wetter. 1985. Index to the specimens filed in the New York Botanical Garden vascular plant type herbarium. 587 pp. Meckler Publishing Co. Westport, CT.