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Kerry Barringer, Ph.D.

Curator of the Herbarium
E-mail: kerrybarringer@bbg.org
Phone: 718-623-7318
Fax: 718-941-4774

Research Interests

Taxonomy of neotropical Scrophulariaceae, Thymelaeaceae, and Orchidaceae. Flora and vegetation change in the northeastern United States.

Current Projects

  1. Flora and vegetation of Black Rock Forest, Cornwall, New York
  2. Taxonomy of neotropical Thymelaeaceae (with L.I. Nevling Jr.)
  3. Taxonomy of Elleanthus (Orchidaceae)
  4. Types and historic collections in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Herbarium

Selected Publications

Barringer, K. and P. Nelson. 2006. Mosses from Black Rock Forest, Cornwall, NY. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 133(3): 490–493.

Barringer, K. and J. Pruski. 2005. Two new species of Daphnopsis (Thymelaeaceae) from the Guianas. Novon 15: 50–54.

Ma, J.S. and K. Barringer. 2005. Dr. Hsen-Hsu Hu (1894–1968)—a founder of modern plant taxonomy in China. Taxon 54(2): 559–566.

Ma, J.S., K. Barringer, and S.E. Clemants. 2005. Review of the typification of Metasequoia glyptostroboides (Taxodiaceae). Taxon 54(2): 475–476.

Barringer, K. and L.I. Nevling Jr. 2004. Thymelaeaceae. Pp. 372–374 in Families of Neotropical Plants, eds. Smith, et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Barringer, K. 2004. A revision of Gibsoniothamnus (Schlegeliaceae). Brittonia 56(3): 213–237.