Thesis Title: | Systematics and evolution of chocolate and its relatives (Sterculiaceae or Malvaceae s.l.) |
Author Abbrev Bot: | Whitlock |
Barbara Ann Whitlock (born 1967) is a botanist, who earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University, with her dissertation Systematics and evolution of chocolate and its relatives (Sterculiaceae or Malvaceae s.l.),[1] an interest which continues.
She has been working in the Department of Biology, University of Miami from at least 2015,[2] where she works on tropical (plant) biology, and ecology and evolutionary biology.[3] [4]
Much of her work centres on Malvaceae and related phylogeny.
She has published 39 names,[5] including Androcalva fraseri, and Commersonia borealis. (See also Taxa named by Barbara Ann Whitlock.)
The standard author abbreviation Whitlock is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.