Name

Barbara G. Briggs

Position

Honorary Research Associate

Email

barbara.briggs@rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au

Phone
(02)9231 8074

Fax
(02) 9251 7231

 

 
 

 


Research interests

Restionaceae and closely allied families, phylogeny of Poales, Ecdeiocoleaceae, Australian Ranunculus, Australian Veroniceae, Proteaceae

Keywords

Restionaceae Poales Ecdeiocoleaceae Ranunculus Veroniceae Proteaceae

Current research projects

Molecular phylogeny of 'core Poales' with Adam Marchant, Australian Restionaceae

Key publications

  • Briggs, B.G. 1962. Interspecific hybridization in the Ranunculus lappaceus group. Evolution 16: 372–390.
  • Johnson, L.A.S., & Briggs, B.G. 1963.  Evolution in the Proteaceae. Austral. J. Bot. 11: 21–61.
  • Briggs, B.G. 1964.  The control of interspecific hybridization in Darwinia. Evolution 18: 292–302.
  • Johnson, L.A.S. & Briggs, B.G. 1975.  On the Proteaceae – the evolution and classification of a southern family.  J. Linn. Soc. (London) Bot., 70: 83–182.
  • Rotherham, E.R., Blaxell, D.F., Briggs, B.G., & Carolin, R.C., 1975.  Flowers and Plants of New South Wales and Southern Queensland. A.H. & A.W. Reed: Sydney. 191 pp.
  • Briggs, B.G., & Johnson, L.A.S. 1979.  Evolution in the Myrtaceae – evidence from inflorescence structure.  Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 102: 157–256.
  • Johnson L.A.S. & Briggs, B.G. 1981. Three old southern families – Myrtaceae, Proteaceae and Restionaceae. In Keast, A. (ed.) Ecological Biogeography of Australia. Pp. 427–464.  W. Junk: The Hague.
  • Johnson, L.A.S. & Briggs, B.G. 1984. Myrtales and Myrtaceae – a phylogenetic analysis. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 71: 700–756.
  • Briggs, B.G. 1986. Alpine Ranunculi of the Kosciusko plateau – habitat change and hybridization.  In B.A. Barlow (ed), Flora and Fauna of Alpine Australasia: Ages and Origins. CSIRO.  pp. 401–412.
  • Briggs, B.G. 1991. One hundred years of plant taxonomy, 1889 – 1989. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 78: 19–32.
  • Briggs, B.G., & Ehrendorfer, F. 1992. A revision of the Australian species of Parahebe and Derwentia (Scrophulariaceae). Telopea 5: 241–287.
  • Briggs, B.G. & Johnson, L.A.S.  (1998) Georgeantha hexandra, a new genus and species of Ecdeiocoleaceae (Poales) from Western Australia. Telopea 7: 307-312.
  • Briggs, B.G. & Johnson, L.A.S. (1998) New genera and species of Australian Restionaceae (Poales). Telopea 7: 345-373.
  • Linder, H.P., Briggs, B.G. & Johnson, L.A.S. (1998) Anarthriaceae: pp. 19—21, Ecdeiocoleaceae: pp 195–197, Restionaceae pp. 425–445 in, K. Kubitzki (Ed.) The Families and Genera of Flowering Plants IV. Springer-Verlag: Berlin.
  • Briggs, B.G. & Johnson, L.A.S. (1999) A guide to a new classification of Restionaceae and allied families. Pp. 25–56 in Meney, K.A. & Pate, J.S. (eds) Australian Rushes, Biology, Identification and Conservation of Restionaceae and allied families. (University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands).
  • Briggs, B.G., Marchant, A.D., Gilmore, S. and Porter, C.L. (2000). A molecular phylogeny of Restionaceae and allies. Pp. 661–671 in Wilson, K.L. & Morrison, D. (eds.) Monocots–Systematics and Evolution (Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. Comparative Biol. Monocots, Sydney 1998). (CSIRO: Melbourne).

 

 

Barbara and Puya