Maarten J. M. Christenhusz

Maarten J. M. Christenhusz
Maarten J. M. Christenhusz
Born (1976-04-27) 27 April 1976
Enschede, Netherlands
Known for APG
Scientific career
Author abbrev. (botany) Christenh.

Dr Maarten Joost Maria Christenhusz (born 27 April 1976) is a Dutch botanist and plant photographer.

Career

He was born in Enschede, the Netherlands, received his undergraduate and master's degrees from Utrecht University, and earned his PhD from the University of Turku, Finland in 2007.[1] He is an authority on fern, gymnosperm and angiosperm classification,[2] and is a contributor to the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (compiler of APG IV). He is the current elected president of the International Association of Pteridologists and a council member of the Linnean Society. He lives in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, UK.

He is the former chief editor and initiator of the botanical journal Phytotaxa and an associate editor for manuscripts on pteridophytes for the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.[1] He has an interest in island biogeography, botanical gardens, floristic treatments, horticulture and plant taxonomy.[1] He is the lead author (together with Michael F. Fay and Mark W. Chase) of an encyclopedia of vascular plants called Plants of the World.

Several vascular plant families (Petenaeaceae, Kewaceae, Macarthuriaceae, Hemidictyaceae, Diplaziopsidaceae), genera (Dracoglossum, Nesolindsaea, Osmolindsaea) and species (Hymenophyllum filmenofilicum, Danaea antillensis, D. arbuscula, D. cartilaginea, D. chococola, D. danaëpinna, D. draco, D. epiphytica, Danaea kalevala, D. leussinkiana, D. lingua-cervina, D. quebradensis, D. riparia, D. trinitatensis, D. ushana, D. vivax, D. xenium, D. ypori, D. zamiopsis, Piper ciliomarginatum, Tetranema michaelfayanum), were named by him or together with colleagues. A species of Moraceae from Kenya, Dorstenia christenhuszii was named after its discoverer.[3]

His large numbers of taxonomic recombinations, sometimes exceeding 1000 per paper, self-published, and/or using data gathered by others before it could be published by those persons ("scooping"), have been criticized as supported by false assertions [4] or as unprofessional [5], the latter in a signed letter by the leadership of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.

Honours

  • Current president-elect of the International Association of Pteridologists[1]

Selected bibliography

  • APG IV (2016) An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 181(1): 1-20.
  • M. J. M. Christenhusz, M. F. Fay & M. W. Chase (2017) Plants of the World. Kew Publishing/Chicago University Press.
  • M. W. Chase, M. J. M. Christenhusz & T. Mirenda (2017) The Book of Orchids. Ivy Press/Chicago University Press, ISBN 9780226224527.
  • M. J. M. Christenhusz & J. W. Byng (2016) The number of known plant species in the world and its annual increase. Phytotaxa 261(3): 201-217.
  • S. Zona & M. J. M. Christenhusz (2015) Litter-trapping plants: Filter-feeders of the plant kingdom. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 179(4): 554-586.
  • M. J. M. Christenhusz, S. Brockington, A. Christin, & R. Sage (2014) On the disintegration of Molluginaceae: a new genus and family (Kewa, Kewaceae) segregated from Hypertelis, and placement of Macarthuria in Macarthuriaceae. Phytotaxa 181(4): 238–242.
  • M. J. M. Christenhusz & M. W. Chase (2014) Trends and concepts in fern classification. Annals of Botany 113(4): 571–594.


References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Curriculum vitae: Dr Maarten J. M. Christenhusz FLS. University of Helsinki, August 2010.
  2. ↑ Linear sequence, classification, synonymy, and bibliography of vascular plants: Lycophytes, ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms.
  3. ↑ International Plant Name Index
  4. ↑ Are there too many fern genera?
  5. ↑ Letter re GLOVAP from ASPT Leadership to Society
  6. ↑ IPNI.  Christenh.

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  1. ↑ Maarten Christenhusz on Research Gate
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