Romina Vidal-Russell is an Argentinean botanist who works in the areas of
phytogeography
Phytogeography (from Greek φυτόν, ''phytón'' = "plant" and γεωγραφία, ''geographía'' = "geography" meaning also distribution) or botanical geography is the branch of biogeography that is concerned with the geographic distribution ...
,
phylogeny
A phylogenetic tree or phylogeny is a graphical representation which shows the evolutionary history between a set of species or Taxon, taxa during a specific time.Felsenstein J. (2004). ''Inferring Phylogenies'' Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, M ...
, and
parasitic plant
A parasitic plant is a plant that derives some or all of its nutritional requirements from another living plant. They make up about 1% of angiosperms and are found in almost every biome. All Parasite, parasitic plants develop a specialized organ ...
s, and on which she has written extensively.
[ Her papers on the phylogeny of parasitic plants are cited on th]
APG website
[Stevens, P.F. (2001 onwards]
Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 14, July 2017 (and more or less continuously updated since)
www.mobot.org. Retrieved 31 July 2019 and elsewhere and her collaborations are international.[ She currently works at the ]National University of Comahue
The National University of Comahue (, UNCNavarro, Fernando A. ''. Tremédica, Asociación Internacional de Traductores y Redactores de Medicina y Ciencias Afines/UNCoPortal de Prensa de la Uncoma, Universidad Nacional del Comahue'/Uncoma) is an ...
in Argentina
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.SIUC
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with Daniel L. Nickrent as supervisor.
(She has two botanist abbreviations in IPNI
The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) describes itself as "a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns and lycophytes." Coverage of plant names is best at the rank of species and genus. It in ...
: one as a botanist
Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...
, the other as a mycologist
Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their taxonomy, genetics, biochemical properties, and use by humans. Fungi can be a source of tinder, food, traditional medicine, as well as entheogens, poison, and ...
.)
Names published
* ''Amyeminae'' Nickrent & Vidal-Russ., Taxon 59(2): 548 (2010).
* ''Dendrophthoinae'' Nickrent & Vidal-Russ., Taxon 59(2): 549 (2010).
* ''Emelianthinae'' Nickrent & Vidal-Russ., Taxon 59(2): 549 (-550) (2010).
* ''Ileostylinae'' Nickrent & Vidal-Russ., Taxon 59(2): 548 (2010).
* ''Ligarinae'' Nickrent & Vidal-Russ., Taxon 59(2): 547 (2010).
(incomplete list as Vidal-Russ.)[
]
References
External links
Romina Vidal-Russell, Google Scholar
Romina Vidal-Russell, Dictionary of Argentinean Scientists
Romina Vidal-Russell, Researchgate
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Living people
21st-century Argentine botanists
Argentine women botanists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academic staff of the National University of Comahue
Argentine mycologists