Prof.dr. D.J. Mabberley (David) Faculty    Mathematics & Natural Sciences E-mail    david_mabberley@yahoo.co.uk Phone    071 527 3500     Study Biology Ph.D. January 1, 1975 Dissertation The pachycaul species of senecio and lobelia in Africa Inaugural lecture September 29, 1995 Plants and prejudice Subject Systematic anatomy of plants, chair on behalf of the Leiden Univeversity Fund

Keywords

Tropical trees, economic plants, plant-animal interactions, bibliography

My inspiration

My aim in research and teaching at Leiden is to understand and to explain to others the intricate relationships between plants and the human animal in terms of their interactions, biological and cultural, on the one hand, and the human perception of the plant world in terms of classification systems both morphological and systematic, on the other. In this I have been greatly influenced in my thinking by my training under Professor E.J.H. Corner of Cambridge University UK and by my working in Leiden with colleagues in the Flora Malesiana programme, most notably the late Professor C.G.G.J. van Steenis.

Titles of major publications

• (2000) The Plant-book. A portable dictionary of the vascular plants, 2nd ed., 2nd repr. with corrections, pp. xii + 858.
• (1999) "Where are the wild things?", Paradisus: Hawaiian plant watercolors by Geraldine King Tam, D.J. Mabberley (ed.), Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1-11.
• (1997) Mabberley DJ, Steane DL, et al., "Phylogenetic relationships of Clerodendrum s.l. (Lamiaceae) inferred from chloroplast DNA", Systematic Botany 22: 229-243.
• (1994) Mabberley DJ, Hay A, "On perception of plant morphology: some implications for phylogeny", Shape and form in plants and fungi, D.S. Ingram and A. Hudson (eds.), Academic Press, 101-117.
• (1994) Tropical rain forest ecology, Second ed., corrected reprint, Blackie, Glasgow, pp. xi + 300.

Links

http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl

http://www.rbgsyd.gov.au