Species, speciation and taxonomic complexity: insights from the European Flora
1762nd meeting. Warburg Memorial Lecture – Joint with BBOWT.
Defining individual taxa as species, subspecies or varieties is frequently confounded by ongoing evolutionary processes, including local adaptation, hybridization, polyploidy and apomixis. These processes are especially frequent in certain families, including the Asteraceae, Rosaceae and Poaceae, often leading to extreme taxonomic complexity. Prof. Hiscock will discuss the evolutionary processes that generate taxonomic complexity in the notoriously ‘difficult’ genera Sorbus (Rosaceae), Senecio (Asteraceae), and Orobanche (Orobanchaceae), paying particular attention to examples from the British Flora.
Prof. Hiscock is Director of the Oxford Botanic Garden & Harcourt Arboretum.
Date:
7 February 2017, 19:45
Venue:
St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details:
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Speaker:
Professor Simon Hiscock (Oxford Botanic Garden & Harcourt Arboretum)
Organiser:
Christopher Hoskin (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
publicity@anhso.org.uk
Part of:
Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire - Indoor Meetings
Topics:
Booking required?:
Not required
Cost:
£2
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Christopher Hoskin
