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Join Sandra Knapp, Head of Algae, Fungi and Plants Division at the Natural History Museum in London, for our Annual Lecture.
A specialist on the taxonomy of the nightshade family, Solanaceae, Sandra will talk about their many uses. She has spent time in the field in Central and South America collecting plants, including time living in Peru and Panama. Her particular focus of research is the megadiverse genus Solanum, which is one of only a handful of flowering plant genera with more than 1,000 species. She joined the Natural History Museum in 1992 to manage the international project, Flora Mesoamericana – a synoptic inventory of the approximately 18,000 species of plants of southern Mexico and the isthmus of Central America. She was awarded the Linnean Medal in 2016 for her service to botanical science and the American Society of Plant Taxonomists’ Peter Raven Outreach Award in 2009 for her contributions in communicating science.
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