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Selected recent publications from the staff of the University Gardens
2025
Cano Á, Powell J, Aiello AS, Andersen HL, Arbour T, Balzer A, Bauer DS, Bugarchich J, Cano F, Contreras MP, Cubey R, Czajkowski I, Diaz-Toribio MH, Freeth T, Freyre N, Gardner MF, Griffith MP, Gustafsson ALS, Havström M, Hockley LR, Hollingsworth PM, Jørgensen T, Kindl K, Kirkwood D, Larpin D, Lofthus Ø, Löhne C, López-Villalobos A, Luscombe D, Molloy D, Morales-Rozo C, Nāburga I, Nebot A, Neinhuis C, Newlander CS, Ossaer J, Payton G, Peter J, Puente Martinez R, Scheen A-C, Scherberich D, Senekal AM, Shearman C, Siemon J, Socher SA, Sucher R, Summers A, Tucker Lima JM, Vry A, Wong J, Wrigley D, You F, Brockington SF (2025) Insights from a century of data reveal global trends in ex situ living plant collections. Nature Ecology & Evolution: 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02633-z
Musker SD, Nürk NM, Pirie MD (2025) Maximising informativeness for target capture-based phylogenomics in Erica (Ericaceae). PhytoKeys 251: 87–118. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.251.136373
2024
Elliott, T.L., Spalink, D., Larridon, I., Zuntini, A.R., Escudero, M., Hackel, J., Barrett, R.L., Martín-Bravo, S., Márquez-Corro, J.I., Granados Mendoza, C., Mashau, A.C., Romero-Soler, K.J., Zhigila, D.A., Gehrke, B., Andrino, C.O., Crayn, D.M., Vorontsova, M.S., Forest, F., Baker, W.J., Wilson, K.L., Simpson, D.A., & Muasya, A.M. 2024. Global analysis of Poales diversification – parallel evolution in space and time into open and closed habitats. New Phytologist 242: 727–743. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19421
Elliott, A.C., Bester, S.P., Klopper, R.R., Nelson, E.C., & Pirie, M.D. 2024. Curating an online checklist for Erica L. (Ericaceae): contributing to and supporting global conservation through the World Flora Online. PhytoKeys 243: 121–135. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.243.121555
Jørgensen, P. M.: Noen eldre, norske botanikere på min sti. I Vestlandsbotanikere. Blyttia 82: 148-151.
Jørgensen, P. M. ; Noen eldre norske botanikere på min sti. II Oslobotanikere. Blyttia 82: 224-231.
Musker SD, Pirie MD, Nürk NM (2024) Pollinator shifts despite hybridisation in the Cape’s hyperdiverse heathers (Erica, Ericaceae). Molecular Ecology: e17505. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17505
Nelson, E.C., Pirie, M.D., & Bellstedt, D.U. 2024. Redefining the megagenus Erica L. (Ericaceae): the contributions of E. G. H. Oliver and I. M. Oliver (née Nitzsche) to taxonomy and nomenclature. PhytoKeys 244: 39–55. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.244.121705
Oliver, E.G.H., Forshaw, N., Oliver, I.M., Volk, F., Schumann, A.W.S., Dorr, L.J., Hoekstra, R.D., Musker, S.D., Nürk, N.M., Pirie, M.D., & Rebelo, A.G. 2024. Genus Erica: An identification aid version 4.00. PhytoKeys 241: 143–154. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.241.117604
Pirie, M.D., Bellstedt, D.U., Bouman, R.W., Fagúndez, J., Gehrke, B., Kandziora, M., Maitre, N.C.L., Musker, S.D., Newman, E., Nürk, N.M., Oliver, E.G.H., Pipins, S., Niet, T. van der, & Forest, F. 2024. Spatial decoupling of taxon richness, phylogenetic diversity and threat status in the megagenus Erica (Ericaceae). PhytoKeys 244: 127–150. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.244.124565
2023
Akinlabi, F.M., Pirie, M.D., & Oskolski, A.A. 2023. Fire, frost, and drought constrain the structural diversity of wood within southern African Erica (Ericaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society boad033. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boad033
Andersen HL, Tønsberg T. 2023. (2968) Proposal to conserve the name Fuscidea against Maronea (lichenized Ascomycota). TAXON 72: 925–926. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12995
Antonelli, A. et al. 2023. State of the World’s Plants and Fungi 2023. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. https://doi.org/10.34885/wnwn-6s63
Diaz AEC, Herfindal L, Andersen HL, Fossen T. 2023. Cytotoxic Natural Products Isolated from Cryptogramma crispa (L.) R. Br. Molecules 28: 7723. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules28237723
Jamnani MJ, Holmelid B, Vedeler A, Parsian HH, Andersen HL, Fossen T (2023) Natural Products from Leaves of the Ancient Iranian Medicinal Plant Echium amoenum Fisch. & C. A. Mey. Molecules 28: 385. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules28010385
Jørgensen, P.M. 2023. Personene i planteslektnavnene: IIIb. Botanikere og samlere S-W, og noen norske fra eksotiske områder. Blyttia 81: 142–149.
Jørgensen, P.M. 2023. Personene i plante-slektsnavnene: IIIa. Botanikere og samlere, A–P. Blyttia 81: 81–88.
Jørgensen, P.M. 2023. Personene i planteslektsnavnene: IV. Tillegg og rettelser. Blyttia 81: 225–229.
Jørgensen, P.M. 2023. Vakker bok om planter hos en stor nordisk dikter. Blyttia 81: 231.
Jørgensen, P.M., & Holien, H. 2023. Tor Tønsberg at seventy-five. Plant and Fungal Systematics 68: 246–248. https://doi.org/10.35535/pfsyst-2023-0009
Jørgensen, P.M., & Schmitt, I. 2023. The typification of Variolaria discoidea Pers. Plant and Fungal Syst. 378–381. https://doi.org/10.35535/pfsyst-2023-0021
Nelson, E.C., Oliver, E.G.H., & Pirie, M.D. 2023. Erica L. (Ericaceae): homonyms amongst published names for African species and proposed replacement names. PhytoKeys 236: 157–178. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.236.110498
2022
Eriksson, T., Persson, N.L., & Smedmark, J.E.E. 2022. What is Potentilla? A phylogeny-based taxonomy for Potentillinae (Rosaceae). TAXON 71: 493–505. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12679
Jorgensen, P.M. 2022. Jordnøtt Conopodium majus – en av Oeders vestnorske oppdagelser. Blyttia 80 (1): 48–50.
Jorgensen, P.M. 2022. Personnavnene I plantenavnene I. Linné og linnea. Blyttia 80 (2): 86-88.
Jorgensen, P.M. 2022. Personene i planteslektsnavnene: II. Blant guder og sagnfigurer. Blyttia 80 (4): 211-217.
Kandziora, M., Gehrke, B., Popp, M., Gizaw, A., Brochmann, C., & Pirie, M.D. 2022. The enigmatic tropical alpine flora on the African sky islands is young, disturbed, and unsaturated. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119: e2112737119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2112737119
Nelson, E.C., & Pirie, M. 2022. Where have all the heathers gone? Sibbaldia: The International Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture. https://doi.org/10.24823/Sibbaldia.2022.1887
Pirie, M.D., Blackhall-Miles, R., Bourke, G., Crowley, D., Ebrahim, I., Forest, F., Knaack, M., Koopman, R., Lansdowne, A., Nürk, N.M., Osborne, J., Pearce, T.R., Rohrauer, D., Smit, M., & Wilman, V. 2022. Preventing species extinctions: A global conservation consortium for Erica. PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET n/a. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10266
Strijk, J.S., Hinsinger, D.D., Roeder, M.M., Chatrou, L.W., Couvreur, T.L.P., Erkens, R.H.J., Sauquet, H., Pirie, M.D., Thomas, D.C., & Cao, K. 2022. The Soursop Genome (Annona muricata L., Annonaceae). Pp. 149–174 in: M.A. Chapman (ed.), Underutilised Crop Genomes. Compendium of Plant Genomes. Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-00848-1_9
2021
Brochmann, C., Gizaw, A., Chala, D., Kandziora, M., Eilu, G., Popp, M., Pirie, M.D., & Gehrke, B. 2021. History and evolution of the afroalpine flora: in the footsteps of Olov Hedberg. Alp Botany. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00035-021-00256-9
Global Carex Group, Roalson, E.H., Jiménez-Mejías, P., Hipp, A.L., Benítez-Benítez, C., Bruederle, L.P., Chung, K.-S., Escudero, M., Ford, B.A., Ford, K., Gebauer, S., Gehrke, B., Hahn, M., Hayat, M.Q., Hoffmann, M.H., Jin, X.-F., Kim, S., Larridon, I., Léveillé-Bourret, É., Lu, Y.-F., Luceño, M., Maguilla, E., Márquez-Corro, J.I., Martín-Bravo, S., Masaki, T., Míguez, M., Naczi, R.F.C., Reznicek, A.A., Spalink, D., Starr, J.R., Uzma, Villaverde, T., Waterway, M.J., Wilson, K.L., & Zhang, S.-R. 2021. A framework infrageneric classification of Carex (Cyperaceae) and its organizing principles. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 59: 726–762. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12722
Jørgensen, P.M., Brinda, J.C., & Wedin, M. 2021. (2823) Proposal to reject the name Riccia sinuata (Marchantiophyta). TAXON 70: 897–897. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12545
Morales-Briones, D.F., Gehrke, B., Huang, C.-H., Liston, A., Ma, H., Marx, H.E., Tank, D.C., & Yang, Y. 2021. Analysis of Paralogs in Target Enrichment Data Pinpoints Multiple Ancient Polyploidy Events in Alchemilla s.l. (Rosaceae). Systematic Biology syab032. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syab032
Strijk, J.S., Hinsinger, D.D., Roeder, M.M., Chatrou, L.W., Couvreur, T.L.P., Erkens, R.H.J., Sauquet, H., Pirie, M.D., Thomas, D.C., & Cao, K. 2021. Chromosome-level reference genome of the soursop (Annona muricata): A new resource for Magnoliid research and tropical pomology. Molecular Ecology Resources 21: 1608–1619. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13353
2020
Bremer, B. & Eriksson, T. 2020. Rubiaceae. – Pp. 401–402 in: de Queiroz, K., P. D. Cantino and J. A. Gauthier (eds). Phylonyms. A Companion to the PhyloCode. – CRC Press. ISBN 9781138332935
Nürk, N. M., Linder, H. P., Onstein, R. E., Larcombe, M. J., Hughes, C. E., Piñeiro Fernández, L., Schlüter, P. M., Valente, L., Beierkuhnlein, C., Cutts, V., Donoghue, M. J., Edwards, E. J., Field, R., Flantua, S. G. A., Higgins, S. I., Jentsch, A., Liede-Schumann, S., & Pirie, M. D. 2020. Diversification in evolutionary arenas-Assessment and synthesis. Ecol. Evol., 636803. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6313
Øvstedal, D. O., Fryday, A. M., & Lewis Smith, R. I. 2020. Lecanora muscigena (Lichenized Ascomycota, Lecanorales), a new lichen species in the Lecanora fuscescens group from South Georgia. New Zeal. J. Bot., 58: 145–152. https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825X.2019.1682625
Persson, N. L., Toresen, I., Andersen, H. L., Smedmark, J. E. E., & Eriksson, T. 2020. Detecting destabilizing species in the phylogenetic backbone of Potentilla L. (Rosaceae) using low-copy nuclear markers. AoB Plants. https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plaa017
Persson, N. L., Eriksson, T., & Smedmark, J. E. E. 2020. Complex patterns of reticulate evolution in opportunistic weeds (Potentilla L., Rosaceae), as revealed by low-copy nuclear markers. BMC Evol. Biol., 20: 38. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-020-1597-7
Roalson, E. H., Jiménez‐Mejías, P., Hipp, A. L., Benítez‐Benítez, C., Bruederle, L. P., Chung, K., Escudero, M., Ford, B. A., Ford, K., Gebauer, S., Gehrke, B., Hahn, M., Hayat, M. Q., Hoffmann, M. H., Jin, X., Kim, S., Larridon, I., Léveillé‐Bourret, É., Lu, Y., Luceño, M., Maguilla, E., Márquez‐Corro, J. I., Martín‐Bravo, S., Masaki, T., Míguez, M., Naczi, R. F. C., Reznicek, A. A., Spalink, D., Starr, J. R., Uzma, Villaverde, T., Waterway, M. J., Wilson, K. L., & Zhang, S. 2020. A framework infrageneric classification of Carex (Cyperaceae) and its organizing principles. J. Syst. Evol., jse.12722. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12722
2019
Ekman, S., & Jørgensen, P. M. 2019. The Sticta fuliginosa group in Norway and Sweden. Graph. Scr., 31: 23–33.
Fossen, T., Holmelid, B., & Øvstedal, D. O. 2019. Bumblebee death associated with Tilia x europaea L. Biochem. Syst. Ecol., 82: 16–23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bse.2018.11.001
Gillespie, E. L., Madsen-McQueen, T., Eriksson, T., Bailey, A., & Murrell, Z. E. 2019. Microsatellite markers for the biogeographically enigmatic sandmyrtle (Kalmia buxifolia, Phyllodoceae: Ericaceae). Appl. Plant Sci., 7: 4–7. https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11267
Haji Ibrahim, A. H., Herfindal, L., Rathe, B., Andersen, H. L., Almeida, J. R. G. da S., & Fossen, T. 2019. A novel poly-oxygenated flavone glucoside from aerial parts of the Brazilian plant Neoglaziovia variegata (Bromeliaceae). Heliyon, 5: 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e01369
Jørgensen, P. M. 2019. The troublesome genus Thamnolia (lichenized Ascomycota). Lichenologist, 51: 221–226. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0024282919000203
Jørgensen, P. M., & Nimis, P. L. 2019. On the typification of the lichen genus Lepra Scop. Taxon, 68: 132–136. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12017
Jørgensen, P. M., Andersen, H. L., & Elvebakk, A. 2019. The genus Massalongia (lichenised ascomycetae) in the Southern Hemisphere. MycoKeys, 60: 125–140. https://doi.org/10.3897/MYCOKEYS.60.37725
Le Maitre, N. C., Pirie, M. D., & Bellstedt, D. U. 2019. Floral Color, Anthocyanin Synthesis Gene Expression and Control in Cape Erica Species. Front. Plant Sci., 10: 1–9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.01565
Le Maitre, N. C., Pirie, M. D., & Bellstedt, D. U. 2019. An approach to determining anthocyanin synthesis enzyme gene expression in an evolutionary context: an example from Erica plukenetii. Ann. Bot., 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcz046
Lukešová, H., Andersen, H. L., Kolínová, M., & Holst, B. 2019. Is It Hop? Identifying Hop Fibres in a European Historical Context. Archaeometry, 61: 494–505. https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12437
Pirie, M. D., Kandziora, M., Nürk, N. M., Le Maitre, N. C., Mugrabi de Kuppler, A., Gehrke, B., Oliver, E. G. H., & Bellstedt, D. U. 2019. Leaps and bounds: geographical and ecological distance constrained the colonisation of the Afrotemperate by Erica. BMC Evol. Biol., 19: 222. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1545-6
Tønsberg, T., & Andersen, H. L. 2019. Miriquidica majae, a new lichen species from oldgrowth Picea abies forests in central Norway. Graph. Scr., 31: 14–22.
2018
Ezhkin, A. K., & Jørgensen, P. M. 2018. New Records of Pannariaceae (Lichenized Ascomycota) from Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, Russian Far East. Evansia, 35: 43–52. https://doi.org/10.1639/0747-9859-35.2.043
ØVSTEDAL, D. O., LINDBLOM, L., KNUDSEN, K., & FRYDAY, A. M. 2018. A new species of Acarospora (Acarosporaceae, Acarosporales, lichenized Ascomycota) from the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas). Phytotaxa, 340: 86. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.340.1.7
Øvstedal, D. O. 2018. Maritime species of the genus Verrucaria in Kerguelia. Australas. Lichenol., 82: 146–155.
Zahradníková, M., Andersen, H. L., & Tonsberg, T. 2018. Fuscidea lightfootii and F. pusilla (Fuscideaceae, Umbilicariomycetidae, Ascomycota), two similar but genetically distinct species. Lichenologist, 50: 425–438. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0024282918000270
Zamora, J. C., [...] Jørgensen, P.M. [...] & Ekman, S. 2018. Considerations and consequences of allowing DNA sequence data as types of fungal taxa. IMA Fungus, 9: 167–175. https://doi.org/10.5598/imafungus.2018.09.01.10
2017
Fryday, A. M., Ertz, D., & Jorgensen, P. M. 2017. Insights into the genus Austrella (Pannariaceae, Peltigerales), including a new species from the Falkland Islands. Lichenologist, 49: 57–65. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0024282916000621
Juvik, O. J., Holmelid, B., Francis, G. W., Andersen, H. L., De Oliveira, A. P., De Oliveira, R. G. alves, Da Silva Almeida, J. R. G., & Fossen, T. 2017. Non-Polar natural products from Bromelia laciniosa, Neoglaziovia variegata and Encholirium spectabile (Bromeliaceae). Molecules, 22. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules22091478
Jørgensen, P. M. 2017. The development of lichenology in the history of botany. Bryologist, 120: 37–44. https://doi.org/10.1639/0007-2745-120.1.037
Wedin, M., Otalora, M. A. G., & Jørgensen, H. B. 2017. Erratum to: The genus Paracollema validated (Collemataceae, Peltigerales, Lecanoromycetes). Stud. Fungi, 2: 218. https://doi.org/10.5943/sif/2/1/23
Zahradníková, M., Andersen, H. L., Tønsberg, T., & Beck, A. 2017. Molecular Evidence of Apatococcus, including A. fuscideae sp. nov., as Photobiont in the Genus Fuscidea. Protist, 168: 425–438. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2017.06.002
Zahradníková, M., Tonsberg, T., & Andersen, H. L. 2017. The taxonomy of the lichen Fuscidea cyathoides (Fuscideaceae, Umbilicariomycetidae, Ascomycota) in Europe. Lichenologist, 49: 547–560. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0024282917000524
2016
Andersen, H. L., Næss, S. J., & Salvesen, P. H. 2016. Hybridization between the locally endangered Rosa spinosissima and Rosa mollis results in the pentaploid Rosa × sabinii in western Norway. Nord. J. Bot., 34: 645–657. https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.01070
Jørgensen, P. M., Weidemann, E., & Fremstad, E. 2016. Flora Norvegica av J.E. Gunnerus. GUNNERIA, 80: 505.
Juvik, O. J., Nguyen, X. H. T., Andersen, H. L., & Fossen, T. 2016. Growing with dinosaurs: natural products from the Cretaceous relict Metasequoia glyptostroboides Hu & Cheng—a molecular reservoir from the ancient world with potential in modern medicine. Phytochem. Rev., 15: 161–195. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11101-015-9395-3
Jørgensen, P. M., & Palice, Z. 2016. Leptogium insigne New to Ecuador, with Notes on Its Generic Position. Evansia, 33: 14–17. https://doi.org/10.1639/0747-9859-33.1.14
2015
Eriksson, T., Lundberg, M., Töpel, M., Östensson, P., & Smedmark, J. E. E. 2015. Sibbaldia: a molecular phylogenetic study of a remarkably polyphyletic genus in Rosaceae. Plant Syst. Evol., 301: 171–184. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-014-1063-3
Jørgensen, P. M., & Andersen, H. L. 2015. The lichen genus Psoromidium (Pannariaceae) re-evaluated, with nomenclatural notes on Degeliella and Psoromaria. Lichenologist, 47: 343–348. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0024282915000171
Jørgensen, P. M., & Palice, Z. 2015. Additions to the Cyanolichens of the Andes. Herzogia, 28: 285–287. https://doi.org/10.13158/heia.28.1.2015.285
Jørgensen, P. M., & Goward, T. 2015. Notes on the Collema tenax Complex, with Recognition of Two Further Species in the Genus Enchylium (Ach.) Gray. Evansia, 32: 42–47. https://doi.org/10.1639/079.032.0101
Older publications
Salvesen, P.H., Kanz, B. & Moe, D., 2009. Historical Cultivars of Buxus sempervirens L. Revealed in a Preserved 17th Century Garden by Biometry and Amplified Fragment Length Plymorphism (AFLP). European Journal of Horticultural Science. 74 (3): 130-136. Link to PDF
Moe, B. 1995. Studies of the alpine flora along an east‐west gradient in central Western Norway. Nord. J. Bot., 15: 77–89. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1756-1051.1995.tb00125.x
