Recent Publications by D. F. Austin

2010

D. F. Austin. Baboquivari Mountain Plants. Identification, Ecology, and Ethnobotany. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. For a checklist of the Baboquivari Mountain chain, see: http://www.aznps.com/floras.php#southeastern

2009

D. F. Austin. A new sphinx moth in Arizona. What's Happening (ASDM Staff/Volunteer/Docent Newsletter) 55(2):7.

D. F. Austin, P. N. Honychurch, and S. Bass. Wetland Plant Guide. A Pocket Guide to the Common Plants of Southern Florida's Wetlands Communities. City of Boca Raton.

D. F. Austin and G. W. Staples. Revision of neotropical Calycobolus and Porana (Convolvulaceae). Edinburgh Journal of Botany 66(1):133-153. PDF copy

2008

D.F. Austin and R. S. Felger. Sichuan peppers and the etymology of fagara (Rutaceae). Economic Botany 62(4):567-573. PDF copy

D. F. Austin. Evolvulus alsinoides (Convolvulaceae): An American herb in the Old World. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 117:185-198. PDF copy

D. F. Austin. Chickpea. In: The World Book Encyclopedia, p. 446.

2007

D. F. Austin. Sacred connections with Cat-tail (Typha, Typhaceae)--Dragons, water-serpents and reed-maces. Ethnobotany Research & Applications 5:273-303. PDF copy

D. F. Austin. Water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica, Convolvulaceae)--a food gone wild. Ethnobotany Research & Applications 5:123-146. PDF copy

D. F. Austin. Merremia dissecta (Convolvulaceae)--a condiment, medicine, ornamental, and weed. Economic Botany 61(4):109-120. PDF copy

D. F. Austin. Fox-tail millets--bristly foods. The Palmetto 24(3):61(4):12-14.

2006

D. F. Austin. Noteworthy distributions and additions in Southwestern Convolvulaceae. Canotia 2(3):79-106. PDF copy

D. F. Austin. Fox-tail millets (Setaria: Poaceae)--abandoned food in two hemispheres. Economic Botany 60(2):143-158. PDF copy

2006.

Staples, G. W., D. F. Austin, and J. A. McDonald. (1724) Proposal to reject Ipomoea glaucifolia L. (Convolvulaceae). Taxon 55(2):535-536.

G. W. Staples, J. H. Wiersema, N. A. Chambers, and D. F. Austin. The restoration of Ipomoea muricata (L.) Jacq. (Convolvulaceae). Taxon 54(4):1075-1079. PDF copy

D. F. Austin. CRC World Dictionary of Grasses. (Book Review). Economic Botany 60(4):398-399.

D. F. Austin. Illustrated Flora of East Texas.Volume 1. (Book Review). Economic Botany 60(4):397-398.

D. F. Austin. Landscapes of Fraud (Book Review). Economic Botany 60(4):390-391.

D.F. Austin, ed. Book Reviews. Economic Botany 60(4):389-399. 

D.F. Austin, ed. Book Reviews. Economic Botany 60(3):296-306. 

D.F. Austin, ed. Book Reviews. Economic Botany 60(2):192-202.

2005

Jennett-Siems, Kristina, Sonya C. Ott, Thomas Schimming, Karsten Siems, Frank Muller, Monika Hilker, Ludger Witt, Thomas Hartmann, Daniel F. Austin, and Eckert Eich. Ipangulines and minalobines, chemotaxonomic markers of the infrageneric Ipomoea taxon subgenus Quamoclit, section Mina. Phytochemistry 66(2):223-231. PDF copy

Schimming, Thomas, Kristina Jennett-Siems, Petra Mann, Britta Tofern-Reblin, Jenny Milson, Robert W. Johnson, Thierry Deroin, Daniel F. Austin, and Eckart Eich. Calystegines as chemotaxonomic markers in the Convolvulaceae. Phytochemistry 66(4):469-480. PDF copy

D. F. Austin, Richard S. Felger, and Tomas R. Van Devender. Nomenclature of Ipomoea arborescens (Convolvulaceae) in Sonora, Mexico. Sida 21(3):1283-1292.

Richard S. Felger and D. F. Austin. Ipomoea seaania, a new species of Convolvulaceae from Sonora, Mexico. Sida 21(3):1293-1303.

D. F. Austin. Convolvulaceae Pp. 245-252. In: G. W. Staples & D. R. Herbst. A Tropical Garden Flora. Plants Cultivated in the Hawaiian Islands and other Tropical Places. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, HI.

D. F. Austin. The enigmatic salsa da rua (Ipomoea asarifolia, Convolvulaceae). Ethnobotany (Silver Jubilee Issue) 17(1-2):41-48.

2004

D. F. Austin. Convolvulaceae Pp. 113-115 In: Smith, Nathan P., Scott A. Mori, Andrew Henderson, Dennis Wm. Stevenson, and Scott V. Heald (eds). Families of Neotropical Flowering Plants. New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY, and Princeton University Press, Princeton. NJ.

Sriyani Rajapakse, Sasanda D. Nilmalgoda, Matthew Molnara, Robert E. Ballarda, Daniel F. Austin, and Janice R. Bohac. Phylogenetic relationships of the sweetpotato in Ipomoea series Batatas (Convolvulaceae) based on nuclear-amylase gene sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 30(3): 623-632.

D. F. Austin. Coontie. Discovering Florida's Ethnobotany. The People and Plant Interactions Series. The Palmetto 22(3): 10-12.

D. F. Austin. Oaks, live and otherwise. Discovering Florida's Ethnobotany. The People and Plant Interactions Series. The Palmetto 23(1): 12-15, 17.

D. F. Austin. Florida Ethnobotany. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL. 936 pp. Nov. 2004. Winner of the Mary W. Klinger Book Award for 2005; nominated for 2006 The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Annual Award. Additions and corrections: html, pdf.

D. F. Austin. Cordia. Discovering Florida's Ethnobotany. The People and Plant Interactions Series. The Palmetto 23(2): 12-15.

D. F. Austin. Displacement of native Ecosystems by invasive alien plants -- The Florida experience. Pp. 175-196. In: Schaal, Barbara A., Tzen-Yuh Chiang, and Chang-Hung Chou. Plant Evolutionary Genetics and the Biology of Weeds. Endemic Species Research Institute, Chi-Chi, Nantou County, Taiwan

2003

D. F. Austin. Lizard’s Tail. Discovering Florida's Ethnobotany. The People and Plant Interactions Series. The Palmetto 22(1): 12-14.

D. F. Austin, P. N. Honychurch, and S. Bass. Flatwoods Plant Guide. A Pocket Guide To The Common Plants Of Southern Florida's Pine Flatwoods Community. Gumbo Limbo Nature Center of South Palm Beach County, Boca Raton, FL.

J. D. Muss,D. F. Austin and J. R. Snyder. Plants of the Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 139(2):119-142.

D. B. Ward, D. F. Austin and N. C. Coile. Endangered and threatened plants of Florida, ranked in order of rarity. Castanea 68(2):160-174.

Lott, M.S., J.C. Volin, R.W. Pemberton and D.F. Austin. The reproductive biology of Lygodium microphyllum and L. japonicum (Schizaeaceae) and its implications for invasive potential. American Journal of Botany. 90:1144-1152.

Stephanovic, Sasa, Daniel F. Austin, and Richard Olmsted. Classification of Convolvulaceae: A Phylogenetic Approach. Systematic Botany 28(4):791-806.

2002

D. F. Austin. Milkworts. The Palmetto 21(2): 10, 11.

D. F. Austin. Convolvulaceae. In: S.A. Mori, G. Cremers, C. A. Gracie, J.-J. de Granville, S. V. Heald, M.Hoff, and J.D. Mitchell, Guide to the vascular plants of central French Guiana. Part 2. Dicotyledons. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 76(2): 231-236.

2001

D. F. Austin, Kaoru Kitajima, Yoshiaki Yoneda and Lianfen Qian. A Putative Tropical American Plant, Ipomoea nil (Convolvulaceae), in Pre-Columbian Japanese Art. Economic Botany 55(4):515-527.

D. F. Austin and Jose Luis Tapia Munoz. Ipomoea sororia (Convolvulaceae), a new species from Yucatan, Mexico, Sida 191(4):807-810.

D. F. Austin and Eckart Eich. Synopsis of Stictocardia with another Madagascan species, S. mojangensis (Convolvulaceae). Willdenowia 31: 79-85.

D. F. Austin. Hoop Vine: The Plant That Wasn't There. Discovering Florida's Ethnobotany. The People and Plant Interactions Series. The Palmetto 20(4): 10-12; cover.

D. F. Austin. Convolvulaceae In: W. D. Stevens, ed. Flora de Nicaragua. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, MO.

2000

D. F. Austin. Rain Lilies. Discovering Florida's Ethnobotany. The People and Plant Interactions Series. The Palmetto 20(3). 15-16.

Burks, K.C. and D. F. Austin. Ipomoea asarifolia (Convolvulaceae), Another Potential Exotic Pest in the United States. Aquatics 22(2): 16, 18.

D. F. Austin. Chiggery grape. Discovering Florida's Ethnobotany. The People and Plant Interactions Series. The Palmetto 20(2). 6-9.

D. F. Austin. A revision of Cressa L. (Convolvulaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 133(1): 27-39.

D. F. Austin.  Bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis, Convolvulaceae) in North America -- From medicine to menace. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Club 127:172-177.

D. F. Austin. The search for "kaladana" (Ipomoea, Convolvulaceae). Economic Botany 54(1):114-118.

1999

D. F. Austin. Ethnobotany of Florida's Weedy Vines. Pp. 171-179 In: D.T. Jones and B.W.Gamble (eds.), Florida's Garden of Good and Evil. Proceedings of the 1998 Joint Symposium of the Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council and the Florida Native Plant Society. Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council.

D. F. Austin. Displacement of native Ecosystems by invasive alien plants -- The Florida experience, or how to destroy an ecosystem. Pp. 3-17 In: D.T. Jones and B.W.Gamble (eds.), Florida's Garden of Good and Evil. Proceedings of the 1998 Joint Symposium of the Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council and the Florida Native Plant Society. Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council.

Burks, K.C. and D.F. Austin. Ipomoea asarifolia (Convolvulaceae), another potential exotic pest in the United States. Sida 18(4): 1267-1272.

D. F. Austin. Caesar’s Weed (Urena lobata) -- An invasive exotic, or a Florida native? Wildland Weeds 3(1):13-16.

C. S. Lockhart, D. F. Austin, W. E. Jones, and L. A. Downey. 1999. The Invasion Of Carrotwood (Cupaniopsis anacardioides) in Florida Natural Areas. Natural Areas Journal 19(3):254-262.

D. F. Austin. The genus Aniseia (Convolvulaceae). Systematic Botany 23(4):411-421.

Lockhart, C., D. F. Austin & N. G. Aumen. Water level effects on the growth of Melaleuca seedlings from the Lake Okeechobee (Florida,USA) littoral zone. Environmental Mangement 23(4):507-518.

D. F. Austin. Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida. by Richard P. Wunderlin. Florida Scientist 62:87-88. (book review).

D. F. Austin. Florida Atlantic University -- An Island of Environmental Changes. The Palmetto 19(1):7-8.

1998

D. F. Austin. Parallel and Convergent Evolution in the Convolvulaceae. Pp. 201-234, In: Mathews, P. and M. Sivadasan (eds.). Diversity and Taxonomy of Tropical Flowering Plants, Mentor Books, Calicut, India.

D. F. Austin and Rosangela Simão Bianchini. Additions and corrections in American Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae). Taxon 47(4):833-838. PDF copy

D. F. Austin. Xixicatic or Wood Rose (Merremia tuberosa, Convolvulaceae): Origins and Dispersal. Economic Botany 52(4):412-422.

D. F. Austin, D. M. Binninger and D. J. Pinkava. Uniqueness of the endangered Florida Semaphore Cactus (Opuntia corallicola). Sida 18(1):527-543.

D. F. Austin, Jesse Piper and Tania Beliz. Convolvulaceae Pp. 293-300, In: Martin, P. S., D. Yetman, M. Fishbein, P. Jenkins, T. R. van Devender and R. K. Wilson. Gentry’s Río Mayo Plants. The Tropical Deciduous Forest & Environs of Northwest Mexico. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

D. F. Austin. Convolvulaceae Pp. 18-32 In: Cremers, G. and M. Hoff. Inventaire Taxonomique des Plantes de la Guyane Francaise VII - Les Dicotyledones. 3ème Partie: Connaraceae a Fabaceae. Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Institut d’Ecologie et de Gestion d la Biodiversité, Ministère de l’Environnement, Paris.

D. F. Austin, G. M. Diggs, Jr., and B. L. Lipscomb. Calystegia (Convolvulaceae) in Texas. Sida 17(4):837-840.

D. F. Austin. 1998. Convolvulaceae Pp. 377-424. In: Steyermark, J. A., P. E. Berry, and B. K. Holst (eds.). Flora of the Venezuelan Guyana. Volume 4. Caesalpinaceae-Ericaceae. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.

D. F. Austin. Christmas Botany or How Reindeer Learned to Fly. The Palmetto 17(3):12-14, 23.

D. F. Austin. Invasive exotic climbers in Florida: Biogeography, ecology and problems. Florida Scientist 61(2):106-117.

D. F. Austin.  The Indiscriminate Vector: Human Distribution of Dichondra micrantha (Convolvulaceae). Economic Botany 52(1):88-106. 1998.

1997

D. F. Austin (text) and Elizabeth Smith (drawings). Pine Rockland Plant Guide. A Field Guide to the Plants of South Florida's Pine Rockland Community. Department of Environmental Resource Management, Environmentally Endangered Lands, Miami-Dade County, Florida.

D. F. Austin. Glades Indians and the plants they used. An ethnobotanical study of Florida's long-gone people. The Palmetto 17(2):7-10. Summer/Fall.

D. F. Austin. Dissolution of Ipomoea ser. Anisomerae (Convolvulaceae). Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 142(2): 140-159.

D. F. Austin. Convolvulaceae Pages 87-88 In: Boggan, J., V. Funk, C. Kelloff, M. Hoff, G. Cremers & C. Feuillet. 1997. Checklist of the Plants of the Guianas (Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). 2nd Editon. Publication 30, Biological Diversity of the Guianas Program, Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560.

D. F. Austin and Sebsebe Demissew. Unique fruits and generic status of Stictocardia (Convolvulaceae). 1997. Kew Bulletin 57(1):161-168.

D. F. Austin, P. N. Honychurch & S. C. Bass. Coastal Hammock & Mangrove Guide. A Pocket Guide to the Common Trees, Shrubs & Vines of S.E. Florida's Hammock and Mangrove Communities. Gumbo Limbo Nature Center of South Palm Beach County, Inc., Boca Raton. 2nd. edition.

1996

Sebsebe Demissew and D. F. Austin. Generic delimitation and relationships in the tribe Hildebrandtieae (Convolvulaceae). Pp. 409-420 In: Maesen, L. J. G. van der, X. M. van der Burgt, and J. M. van Medenbachde Rooy (eds.). The Biodiversity of African Plants: Proceedings, XIVthAETFAT Congress, 22-27 August 1994, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.

D. F. Austin. Roots as a Source of Food. Chapter 47. Pp. 911-930 In: Yoav Waisel, Amram Eshel, and Uzi Kafkaki (eds.). PlantRoots: The Hidden Half. ed. 2. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York.

D. F. Austin and Z. Huaman., A synopsis of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the Americas. Taxon 45:3-38.

F. de la Puente, D. F. Austin and J. Diaz. Commonnames of the sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) in the Americas. IPGRI Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter 106:13-15.

1995

Sebsebe Demissew and D. F. Austin. The genusNephrophyllum (Convolvulaceae, tribe Dichondreae) in Ethiopia. Kew Bulletin 50(1):103-108.

D. F. Austin. Merremia discoidesperma (Convolvulaceae) seeds as medicines in Mexico. Economic Botany 49(3):330-332.

Bohac, J. R., P. D. Dukes and D. F. Austin.Sweetpotato, Pp. 57-62. In: J. Smartt and N. W. Simmonds (eds.). Evolutionof Crop Plants, ed. 2, Longman Group, Ltd., London.

D. F. Austin. The Invasion of our coasts! In: Schmitz, D. C. and T. C. Brown (eds.). An Assessment of Invasive Non-Indigenous Species in Florida's Public Lands. Technical Report No. TSS-94-100, Department of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee.

Juventino Contreras, D. F. Austin, Fermin dela Puente, and Jaime Diaz. Biodiversity of sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas, Convolvulaceae) in southern Mexico. Economic Botany 49(3):286-296.

1994

D. F. Austin. A new Bonamia (Convolvulaceae) from Nicaragua. Novon 4:319-321.

D. F. Austin. Vascular Plant List of Fakahatchee Strand State Park. Published by the Parks Department, Department of Environmental Protection, Osprey, FL. Nov.

R. Jarret and D. F. Austin. Genetic diversityand systematic relationships in sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) and related species as revealed by RAPD analysis. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 41:165-173.

1993

D. F. Austin and G. R. Bourne. Notes on Guyana medical ethnobotany. Economic Botany 46(3):293-298.

D. F. Austin, P. N. Honychurch & Steve Bass.Scrub Plant Guide. A Pocket Guide to the Common Plants of Southern Florida'sScrub Community. Gumbo Limbo Nature Center of South Palm Beach County, Inc. Boca Raton.

J. Diaz, F. de la Puente, and D. F. Austin. Enlargement of fibrous roots in Ipomoea section Batatas (Convolvulaceae). Economic Botany 46(3):322-329.

D. F. Austin, R. Jarret and R. W. Johnson. Ipomoeagracilis R. Brown (Convolvulaceae) and its allies. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 120(1):49-59.

J. R. Bohac, D. F. Austin, and A. Jones. Discovery of wild tetraploid sweetpotatoes. Economic Botany 47(2):193-201.

D. F. Austin, and P. Wilkin. Realignment of Ipomoea peruviana (Convolvulaceae). Economic Botany 47(2):206-207.

D. F. Austin. Collecting tetraploid I. batatas (Linnaeus) Lamarck in Ecuador. FAO/IBPGR Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter 91/92:33-35.

M. C. Stewart, D. F. Austin, and G. R. Bourne. Habitat structure and the dispersion of Gopher Tortoises on a nature preserve. Florida Scientist 56(2):70-81.

1992

D. F. Austin. Rare Convolvulaceae in the southwestern United States. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 79(1):8-16.

D. F. Austin. Studies of the Florida Convolvulaceae-V. Calystegia. Florida Scientist 55(1):58-60.

D. F. Austin. Convolvulaceae Pp. 124-128 In:Boggan, J., V. Funk, C. Kelloff, M. Hoff, G. Cremers and C. Feuillet. Checklistof the Plants of the Guianas (Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

D. F. Austin and J. N. Burch. Status of Stylisma abdita (Convolvulaceae) in Southwestern Florida. Florida Scientist 55(2):99-102.

D. F. Austin. Seeds in some poorly known speciesof Ipomoea section Batatas (Convolvulaceae). Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 119(2):142-144.


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