Charlotte M. Taylor PhD | |
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 Dr. Taylor in the Rubiaceae collections of Herbarium at the Missouri Botanical Garden | |
| Born | 1955 [1] |
| Other names | Charlotte Morley Taylor |
| Education | University of Michigan, Duke University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany, Systematics, Floristics, Taxonomy |
| Institutions | Missouri Botanical Garden, University of Missouri–St. Louis, National Tropical Botanical Garden, University of Puerto Rico in San Juan |
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| Academic advisors | Robert Lynch Wilbur |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | C.M. Taylor |
Dr. Charlotte M. Taylor is a botanist and professor specialising in taxonomy and conservation. She works with the large plant family Rubiaceae, particularly found in the American tropics and in the tribes Palicoureeae and Psychotrieae. This plant family is an economically important group, as it includes plant species used to make coffee and quinine. Taylor also conducts work related to the floristics of Rubiaceae and morphological radiations of the group. Taylor has collected plant samples from many countries across the globe, including Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, and the United States of America, [1] and has named many new species known to science from these regions. As of 2023, Taylor has authored 500 land plant species' names, the third-highest number of such names authored by any female scientist. [4] [5] She has 172 publications on Research Gate alone. [6]
