Robert Faden
Research Botanist & Associate Curator
Phone: 202-633-0971
Fax: 202-786-2563
E-mail Address: FADENR@si.edu
Postal Address
(Mail and Packages):
MRC-166/Botany
Smithsonian Institution
PO Box 37012
Washington, DC 20013-7012
Courier Address:
National Museum of Natural History
West Loading Dock
10th and Constitution Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20560-0166
Education
City College of New York (1958-1962), B.S. cum laude in Biology, with special graduate honors in biology, June, 1962.
University of Michigan (1962-1965), M.S. in Botany, December, 1964.
Washington University, St. Louis (1972-1975), Ph.D. in Biology, December, 1975. Dissertation title: "A biosystematic study of the genus Aneilema R. Br. (Commelinaceae).
Research Interests
Commelinaceae (evolution, systematics, floristics, reproductive biology, anatomy, cytology)
Flora of Africa
African biogeography
Reproductive biology
Plant anatomy
Seed dimorphism
Recent Publications - (All Publications)
Faden, Robert B. 2012. Flora of Tropical East Africa: Commelinaceae Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens. 244 pages.Aona, Lidyanne Y. S., Faden, Robert B. and Amaral, Maria do Carmo E. 2011. Five new species of Dichorisandra J. C. Mikan (Commelinaceae) from Bahia State, Brazil. Kew Bulletin, 66(4): 479-491. doi:10.1007/s12225-011-9308-6
Burns, Jean H., Faden, Robert B. and Steppan, Scott J. 2011. Phylogenetic Studies in the Commelinaceae Subfamily Commelinoideae Inferred from Nuclear Ribosomal and Chloroplast DNA Sequences. Systematic Botany, 36(2): 268-276. doi:10.1600/036364411X569471
Faden, Robert B. 2011. A third species of Polyspatha, an African endemic genus of Commelinaceae. PhytoKeys, 3: 9-20.
Faden, Robert B. 2009. Review of: Hardy Succulents by Gwen Moore Kelaidis, photography by Saxon Holt. Systematic Botany, 34(2): 439
Figueiredo, E., Soares, M., Seibert, G., Smith, G. F. and Faden, Robert B. 2009. The botany of the Cunene-Zambezi Expedition with notes on Hugo Baum (1867-1950). Bothalia, 39(2): 185-211.
Hardy, Christopher R., Sloat, Lindsey L. and Faden, Robert B. 2009. Floral Organogenesis and the Developmental Basis for Pollinator Deception in the Asiatic Dayflower, Commelina Communis (Commelinaceae). American Journal of Botany, 96(7): 1236-1244. doi:10.3732/ajb.0800344
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