PUBLICATIONS 2024
Peer reviewed journal publications
Andrés-Sánchez, S., Verboom, G.A., Galbany-Casals, M., & Bergh, N.G. 2024. Resurrection of two endemic Cape species of Helichrysum (Asteraceae, Gnaphalieae) from amongst the arid-adapted annual lineages. South African Journal of Botany 170: 417-424. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2024.05.040
Chumová, Z., Monier, Z., Šemberová, K., Havlíčková, E., Euston-Brown, D., Muasya, A.M., Bergh, N.G. & Trávníček, P. 2024. Diploid and tetraploid cytotypes of the flagship Cape species Dicerothamnus rhinocerotis (Asteraceae): variation in distribution, ecological niche, morphology and genetics. Annals of Botany 133: 851-869. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad084
Committee on Institutional Votes, Committee, Ulloa Ulloa, C., Turland, N.J., Freire‐Fierro, A., Ge, B.-J., Milne, J., Muasya, A.M., Proćków & Iturriaga, T. (Advisor for Fungi). 2024. Institutional Votes at the XX International Botanical Congress, Madrid, 2024: Report of the Committee on Institutional Votes. Taxon, 73(1), February 2024: 317-324. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.13110
Gregório, B. de Souza, Carvalho, C.S., Stirton, C.H., Ramos, G., Rocha, L., Lewis, G.P., Cardoso, D.B.O.S. 2024. Taxonomic revision of the Amazonian papilionoid legume genus Cabari. Systematic Botany 49(1): 247–269. https://DOI10.1600/036364424X17110457048677.
Du Preez, B., Schrire, B.D, Dreyer, L.D., Stirton, C.H., Muasya, A.M. 2024. Revision of Indigofera L. sect. Brachypodae subsect. Brachypodae (Fabaceae: Indigofereae) from the Greater Cape Floristic Region. South African Journal of Botany 166: 226—258.
Du Preez, B., Stirton, C.H. 2024. Four new species of Aspalathus (Fabaceae, Crotalarieae) and notes on three rediscovered species from the Greater Cape Floristic Region. South African Journal of Botany 166: 169—180. DOI10.1016/j.sajb.2024.01.010
Duncan, G.D., Ellis, A.G., Forest, F., & Verboom, G.A. 2024. Strong habitat and seasonal phenology effects on the evolution of self‐compatibility, clonality and pollinator shifts in Lachenalia (Asparagaceae: Scilloideae). New Phytologist 244: 307-317.https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19786
Egan, A., Bello, A., Stirton, C.H. & Muasya, A.M. 2024. Comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of tribe Psoraleeae (Fabaceae) supports segregation of the South American Otholobium as a New Genus Grimolobium. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society XX: 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boae083
Frankiewicz, K.E., Velani, N., Manuel, R., Lyner, T., Magee, A.R., Boatwright, J.S., Muasya, A.M. & Oskolski, A.A. 2024. Secondarily woody Lobostemon and Echium (Boraginaceae) from two Mediterranean-climate biodiversity hotspots share similar wood anatomies. South African Journal of Botany 174: 116-124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2024.09.009
Klak, C., Hanáček, P., Bruyns, P.V. 2024. Phylogeny and reclassification of Lampranthus N.E.Br. (Ruschieae, Aizoaceae) in southern Africa. Taxon DOI https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.13166
Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). 2024. Andrella, G. C., Atahuachi Burgos, M., Bagnatori Sartori, Â. L., Balan, A., Bandyopadhyay, S., Barrett, R. L., Barbosa Pinto, R., Brullo, S., Boatwright, J. S., Broich, S. L., Bruneau, A., Cardinal-McTeague, W., Cardoso, D., Castro Silva, I. C., Cervantes, A., Choo, L. M., Cobra e Monteiro, T., Compton, J., et al. (2024). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP): Fabaceae, Version 2024v.5 10.5281/zenodo.11486115, (R. Govaerts, Ed.) C.H. Stirton is the Contributor for Aspalathus
Medeiros, I.D., Ibáñez, A., Arnold, A.E., Hedderson, T.A., Miadlikowska, J., Flakus, A., Carbone, I., LaGreca, S., Magain, N., Mazur, E., Castillo, R.V., Geml, J., Kaup, M., Maggs-Kölling, G., Oita, S., Seelan, J.S.S., Terlova, E., Hom, E.F.Y., Lewis, L.A. & Lutzoni, F. 2024. Eco‐phylogenetic study of Trebouxia in southern Africa reveals interbiome connectivity and potential endemism in a green algal lichen photobiont. American Journal of Botany 111: e16441. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16441
Parker, T., Verboom, G.A., Ellis, A.G., Manning, J.C., & Bergh, N.G. 2024. Widely acclaimed but poorly named: Phylogeny and systematics of the African daisy genus Dimorphotheca (Asteraceae, Calenduleae). Taxon 00(00): 1022. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.13280
Shaik, Z., Verboom, G.A., Oxelman, B., & Bergh, N.G. 2024. Revision of Seriphium plumosum (Gnaphalieae: Asteraceae) in southern Africa with description of new species in Seriphium. South African Journal of Botany 165: 367-383. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2023.12.046
Stirton, C.H., Bello, A., Muasya, A.M. 2024. Ten new species and notes on the genus Psoralea L. (Psoraleeae, Fabaceae) from South Africa. Plant Ecology and Evolution 157(3): 291—312. https://doi.org/10.5091/plecevo.120171
Stirton, C.H., Du Preez, B., Helme, N. & Muasya, A.M. 2024. A new species of Aspalathus (Fabaceae, Faboideae) from the Western Cape Province, South Africa (Aspalathus praetermissa). Phytotaxa 66: 69-74. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.665.1.8
van Mazijk, R., West, A.G., Verboom, G.A., Elliott, T.L., Bureš, P., & Muasya, A.M. 2024. Genome size variation in Cape schoenoid sedges (Schoeneae) and its ecophysiological consequences. American Journal of Botany 111: e16315.https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16315
Verboom, G.A., Slingsby, J.A., & Cramer, M.D. 2024. Fire-modulated fluctuations in nutrient availability stimulate biome-scale floristic turnover in time, and elevated species richness, in low-nutrient fynbos heathland. Annals of Botany 133: 819-832. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad199
Vuruputoor, V.S., Starovoitov, A., Cai, Y., Liu, Y., Rahmatpour, N., Hedderson, T.A., Wilding, N., Wegrzyn, J.L. & Goffinet, B. 2024. Crossroads of assembling a moss genome: navigating contaminants and horizontal gene transfer in the moss Physcomitrellopsis africana. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 14(7): jkae104. https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkae104
Zhigila, D.A., Elliott, T.L., Schmiedel, U., & Muasya, A.M. 2024. Do phylogenetic community metrics reveal the South African quartz fields as terrestrial-habitat islands? Annals of Botany 133: 833-849. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcae027
Zuntini, A.R., …. Verboom, A.G., …& Baker, W.J. 2024. Phylogenomics and the rise of the angiosperms. Nature 629: 843–850. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07324-0