John Dransfield

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew — United Kingdom

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Plant Diversity and Evolution(107), Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions(83), Plant and animal studies(75), African Botany and Ecology Studies(29), Oil Palm Production and Sustainability(21)

Publications281 total

Daemonorops komsaryi (Arecaceae) - a new rattan from the Bird’s Head Peninsula, Indonesian New Guinea
The Catalogue of Life·2026Open Access
Calamus kebariensis (Arecaceae) - a new montane rattan from New Guinea
The Catalogue of Life·2026Open Access
A densely sampled nuclear phylogenomic analysis of the coryphoid palms (Arecaceae: Coryphoideae)
Taxon·2025Open Access
Island geography drives evolution of rattan palms in tropical Asian rainforests
Science·2025· 19 cited
Explaining extreme differences in species richness among co-occurring palm clades in Madagascar
Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
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Phytotaxa·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Truongsonia (Arecaceae: Arecoideae: Truongsonieae)—a new palm genus and tribe from Vietnam
Phytotaxa·2023Open Access
Revision of the rattan <i>Calamus javensis</i> Blume complex (Arecaceae, Calamoideae) in Malesia with notes on all recognisable taxa and forms
Nordic Journal of Botany·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
CONTENTS
Princeton University Press eBooks·2022Open Access
The likely extinction of hundreds of palm species threatens their contributions to people and ecosystems
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2022· 26 cited
Phylogenomics and generic limits of Dypsidinae (Arecaceae), the largest palm radiation in Madagascar
Taxon·2022· 13 citedOpen Access
Chapitre 45. Palmiers (Arecaceae) de Madagascar
IRD Éditions eBooks·2022Open Access
Gynoecium and fruit histology, structure and development in corky-warted representatives of Livistoninae (Trachycarpeae: Coryphoideae: Arecaceae)
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society·2021· 3 cited
A robust phylogenomic framework for the calamoid palms
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution·2021· 27 citedOpen Access
Trees and alignments for: A robust phylogenomic framework for the calamoid palms
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2020· 1 citedOpen Access
Trees and alignments for: A robust phylogenomic framework for the calamoid palms
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2020· 1 citedOpen Access
New Guinea has the world’s richest island flora
Nature·2020· 197 citedOpen Access
Complete Generic-Level Phylogenetic Analyses of Palms (Arecaceae) with Comparisons of Supertree and Supermatrix Approaches (project)
MorphoBank datasets·2020
Complete Generic-Level Phylogenetic Analyses of Palms (Arecaceae) with Comparisons of Supertree and Supermatrix Approaches [X26786] Morphological matrix from Baker et al 2009 (prepared by MorphoBank curators from original submission)
MorphoBank datasets·2020
Population modelling and genetics of a critically endangered Madagascan palm <i>Tahina spectabilis</i>
Ecology and Evolution·2020· 10 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

William J. Baker(22), Jens‐Christian Svenning(8), Anne Blach‐Overgaard(6), Natalie W. Uhl(5), Henrik Balslev(5), David Bramwell(5), Anders S. Barfod(4), Terry A. Hedderson(4), Mijoro Rakotoarinivo(4), Conny B. Asmussen(3), Madeline M. Harley(3), Henk Beentje(3), Conny Bruun Asmussen Lange(3), Mark W. Chase(3), Rafaël Govaerts(3), Justin Moat(3), W. Daniel Kissling(3), P. B. Tomlinson(2), Carl E. Lewis(2), Marc S.M. Sosef(2)