education and training
- B.S., Murray State University
- M.S., Murray State University
- Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Funk, Vicki (1947-2019)
Former Senior Research Botanist and Head, Biological Diversity of the Guianas (BDG) Program and Curator of Botany (Asteraceae)
Systematics of the Compositae, including monographs, checklists, phylogenies and supertrees; theory and practice of phylogenetics and biogeography, especially global Compositae distributions and Pacific Biogeography; Biodiversity, the interface between systematics and conservation biology, especially from northeastern South America. Over 12,000 numbers collected primarily, Mexico, Andean South America, and South Africa.
Geographic Focus
- Americas Transnational Region
- Guyana Country
- Mexico Country
- South Africa Country
- South America Continent
Background And Education
awards and honors
- Asa Gray Award, 2018
Research And Grants
investigator on
- Characterizing landscape genomics and reconstructing pathways to plant ecological specialization and speciation awarded by U.S. Geological Survey
- Characterizing landscape genomics and reconstructing pathways to plant ecological specialization and speciation awarded by U.S. Geological Survey
- Evolution of Plant Phenotype as a Response to the Environment awarded by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards
- Extinction risk in Andean plants: A tale of three clades awarded by Competitive Grants Program for Science
- Extinction risk in Andean plants: A tale of three clades awarded by Competitive Grants Program for Science
Publications
selected publications
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article
- Gostel, Morgan R., Zúñiga, Jose D., Kress, W. John, Funk, Vicki A., and Puente-Lelievre, Caroline. 2020. "Author Correction: Microfluidic Enrichment Barcoding (MEBarcoding): a new method for high throughput plant DNA barcoding." Scientific Reports 10 (1):https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69598-4 2020
- Knope, Matthew L., Funk, Vicki A., Johnson, Melissa A., Wagner, Warren L., Datlof, Erin M., Johnson, Gabriel, Crawford, Daniel J., Bonifacino, J. Mauricio, Morden, Clifford W., Lorence, David H., Wood, Kenneth R., Meyer, Jean-Yves, and Carlquist, Sherwin. 2020. "Dispersal and adaptive radiation of Bidens (Compositae) across the remote archipelagoes of Polynesia." Journal of Systematics and Evolution 58 (6):805-822. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12704 2020
- Gostel, Morgan R., Zúñiga, Jose D., Kress, W. John, Funk, Vicki A., and Puente-Lelievre, Caroline. 2020. "Microfluidic Enrichment Barcoding (MEBarcoding): a new method for high throughput plant DNA barcoding." Scientific Reports 10:Article 8701. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64919-z 2020
- Two new species for Gochnatia Kunth (Asteraceae, Gochnatieae) and an extension of the tribal range into Ecuador. Phytokeys. 139:51-62. 2020
- Mandel, Jennifer R., Dikow, Rebecca B., Siniscalchi, Carolina M., Thapa, Ramhari, Watson, Linda E., and Funk, Vicki A. 2019. "A fully resolved backbone phylogeny reveals numerous dispersals and explosive diversifications throughout the history of Asteraceae." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116 (28):14083-14088. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1903871116 2019
- Jones, Katy E., Fér, Tomáš, Schmickl, Roswitha E., Dikow, Rebecca B., Funk, Vicki A., Herrando‐Moraira, Sonia, Johnston, Paul R., Kilian, Norbert, Siniscalchi, Carolina M., Susanna, Alfonso, Slovák, Marek, Thapa, Ramhari, Watson, Linda E., and Mandel, Jennifer R. 2019. "An empirical assessment of a single family-wide hybrid capture locus set at multiple evolutionary timescales in Asteraceae." Applications in Plant Sciences 7 (10):Article e11295. https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11295 2019
- DNA barcodes fail to accurately differentiate species in Hawaiian plant lineages. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 190:374-388. 2019
- Zheng, W., Zhu, Y., Xu, X., Funk, Vicki Ann, and Wen, Jun. 2019. "Phylogenetic position of the South African endemic genus Perdicium in the Gerbera-complex (Compositae, Mutisieae)." South African Journal of Botany 121:478-485. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2018.12.013 2019
- Vernonia subgenus Austrovernonia, a new subgenus from South America (Compositae, Vernonieae, Vernoniinae). Phytokeys. 110:123-134. 2018
- Edwards, Robert D., Cantley, Jason T., Chau, Marian M., Keeley, Sterling C., and Funk, Vicki A. 2018. "Biogeography and relationships within the Melanthera alliance: A pan-tropical lineage (Compositae: Heliantheae: Ecliptinae)." Taxon 67 (3):552-564. https://doi.org/10.12705/673.6 2018
- Hans Walter Lack - Recipient of the 2017 Peter Raven Award. Systematic Botany. 43:7-8. 2018
- Xu, Xiaodan, Zheng, Wei, Funk, Vicki A., and Wen, Jun. 2018. "Home at Last II: Gerbera hieracioides (Kunth) Zardini (Mutisieae, Asteraceae) is really a Chaptalia." Phytokeys (95): 93-106. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.95.22916 2018
- Xu, Xiaodan, Zheng, Wei, Funk, Vicki A., Li, Kexin, Zhang, Jie, and Wen, Jun. 2018. "Home at last III: Transferring Uechtritzia and Asian Gerbera species into Oreoseris (Compositae, Mutisieae)." Phytokeys (96): 1-19. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.96.23142 2018
- IAPT and the Latin American Botanical Congress. Taxon. 67:1250-1252. 2018
- Thomson, Scott A., Pyle, Richard L., Ahyong, Shane T, Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel, Ammirati, Joe, Araya, Juan Francisco, Ascher, John S., Audisio, Tracy Lynn, Azevedo-Santos, Valter, Bailly, Nicolas, Baker, William J., Balke, Michael, Barclay, Maxwell V. L., Barrett, Russell L., Benine, Ricardo C., Bickerstaff, James R. M., Bouchard, Patrice, Bour, Roger, Bourgoin, Thierry, Boyko, Christopher B., Breure, Abraham S. H., Brothers, Denis J., Byng, James W., Campbell, David, Ceríaco, Luis M. P. et al. 2018. "Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation." PLOS Biology 16 (3):1-12. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2005075 2018
- The 2017 Nicolson Fellow: Abdulwakeel Ayokun-Nun Ajao Studies the Southern African Species of Rhynchosia (Fabaceae). Taxon. 67:825. 2018
- Funk, Vicki A., Edwards, Robert, and Keeley, Sterling. 2018. "The problem with(out) vouchers." Taxon 67 (1):3-5. https://doi.org/10.12705/671.1 2018
- Unsung heroes of botany: Lulu Odell Gaiser. Taxon. 67:1053-1054. 2018
- Nahuatlea: a new genus of compositae (Gochnatieae) from North America. Phytokeys. 105-124. 2017
- Cardoso, Domingos, Särkinen, Tiina, Alexander, Sara, Amorim, André M., Bittrich, Volker, Celis, Marcela, Daly, Douglas C., Fiaschi, Pedro, Funk, Vicki Ann, Giacomin, Leandro L., Goldenberg, Renato, Heiden, Gustavo, Iganci, João, Kelloff, Carol L., Knapp, Sandra, de Lima, Haroldo Cavalcante, Machado, Anderson F. P., dos Santos, Rubens Manoel, Mello-Silva, Renato, Michelangeli, Fabián A., Mitchell, John, Moonlight, Peter, de Moraes, Pedro Luís Rodrigues, Mori, Scott A., Nunes, Teonildes Sacramento et al. 2017. "Amazon plant diversity revealed by a taxonomically verified species list." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114 (40):https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1706756114 2017
- Schuettpelz, Eric, Frandsen, Paul, Dikow, Rebecca B., Brown, Abel, Orli, Sylvia S., Peters, Melinda, Metallo, Adam, Funk, Vicki, and Dorr, Laurence J. 2017. "Applications of deep convolutional neural networks to digitized natural history collections." Biodiversity Data Journal 5:e21139. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e21139 2017
- Zúñiga, Jose D., Gostel, Morgan R., Mulcahy, Daniel G., Barker, Katharine, Hill, Asia, Sedaghatpour, Maryam, Vo, Samantha Q., Funk, Vicki Ann, and Coddington, Jonathan A. 2017. "Data Release: DNA barcodes of plant species collected for the Global Genome Initiative for Gardens Program, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution." PhytoKeys 88:119-122. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.88.14607 2017
- Funk, Vicki A., Gostel, Morgan, Devine, Amanda, Kelloff, Carol L., Wurdack, Kenneth J., Tuccinardi, Chris, Radosavljevic, Aleks, Peters, Melinda, and Coddington, Jonathan. 2017. "Guidelines for collecting vouchers and tissues intended for genomic work (Smithsonian Institution): Botany Best Practices." Biodiversity Data Journal (5): e11625. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e11625 2017
- Sidlauskas, Brian L., Ferraris, Carl, Funk, Vicki Ann, Parenti, Lynne R., de Pinna, Mario, and Reid, Gordon McGregor. 2017. "In Memoriam: Richard Peter Vari (August 24, 1949–January 15, 2016)." Copeia 105 (1):147-160. https://doi.org/10.1643/CI-16-550 2017
- Nine species from Madagascar are moved from Vernonia to Distephanus (Compositae, Vernonieaea). Phytokeys. 77:89-92. 2017
- Mandel, Jennifer R., Barker, Michael S., Bayer, Randall J., Dikow, Rebecca B., Gao, Tian-Gang, Jones, Katy E., Keeley, Sterling, Kilian, Norbert, Ma, Hong, Siniscalchi, Carolina M., Susanna, Alfonso, Thapa, Ramhari, Watson, Linda, and Funk, Vicki Ann. 2017. "The Compositae Tree of Life in the age of phylogenomics." Journal of Systematics and Evolution 55 (4):405-410. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12265 2017
- Gostel, Morgan R., Kelloff, Carol L., Wallick, Kyle, and Funk, Vicki Ann. 2016. "A workflow to preserve genome-quality tissue samples from plants in botanical gardens and arboreta." Applications in Plant Sciences 4 (9):https://doi.org/10.3732/apps.1600039 2016
- Seberg, O., Droege, G., Barker, K., Coddington, Jonathan A., Funk, Vicki Ann, Gostel, Morgan, Petersen, G., and Smith, P. P. 2016. "Global Genome Biodiversity Network: saving a blueprint of the Tree of Life - a botanical perspective." Annals of Botany 118 (3):393-399. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcw121 2016
- Home at last: the enigmatic genera Eriachaenium and Adenocaulon (Compositae, Mutisioideae, Mutisieae, Adenocaulinae). Phytokeys. 60:1-19. 2016
- Institutional Votes at the XIX International Botanical Congress, Shenzhen, 2017: Report of the Special Committee on Institutional Votes. Taxon. 65:1449-1454. 2016
- New insights into the phylogeny and biogeography of the Gerbera-Complex (Asteraceae: Mutisieae). Taxon. 65:547-562. 2016
- Nie, Ze-Long, Funk, Vicki Ann, Meng, Ying, Deng, Tao, Sun, Hang, and Wen, Jun. 2016. "Recent assembly of the global herbaceous flora: evidence from the paper daisies (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae)." New Phytologist 209 (4):1795-1806. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.13740 2016
- Henkel, Terry W., Kelloff, Carol L., Alexander, Sara N., and Funk, Vicki Ann. 2016. "Smithsonian Plant Collections, Guyana: 1992–2014, Terry W. Henkel." Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 104:vi-206. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.1938-2812.104 2016
- The origin of the bifurcating style in Asteraceae (Compositae). Annals of Botany. 117:1009-1021. 2016
- Typification of species names in Adenocaulon and Eriachaenium (Compositae/Asteraceae, Subfamily Mutisioideae, Tribe Mutisieae, Subtribe Adenocaulinae). Phytokeys. 121-128. 2016
- Vernonieae (Asteraceae) of southern Africa: A generic disposition of the species and a study of their pollen. PhytoKeys. 60:49-126. 2016
- Wen, Jun, Ickert-Bond, Stefanie, Appelhans, Marc S., Dorr, Laurence J., and Funk, Vicki Ann. 2015. "Collections-based systematics: opportunities and outlook for 2050." Journal of Systematics and Evolution 53 (6):477-488. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12181 2015
- Mandel, Jennifer R., Dikow, Rebecca B., and Funk, Vicki Ann. 2015. "Using phylogenomics to resolve mega-families: An example from Compositae." Journal of Systematics and Evolution 53 (5):391-402. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12167 2015
- Dysaster cajamarcensis. a new shrubby genus and species of Astereae (Asteraceae) from Peru. Phytokeys. 35-40. 2014
- Gymnanthemum koekemoera (Compositae, Vernonieae), a new species from South Africa. Phytokeys. 59-65. 2014
- Mandel, Jennifer R., Dikow, Rebecca B., Funk, Vicki Ann, Masalia, Rishi R., Staton, S. Evan, Kozik, Alex, Michelmore, Richard W., Rieseberg, Loren H., and Burke, John M. 2014. "A Target Enrichment Method for Gathering Phylogenetic Information from Hundreds of Loci: An Example from the Compositae." Applications in Plant Sciences 2 (2):https://doi.org/10.3732/apps.1300085 2014
- Funk, Vicki Ann, Sancho, Gisela, Roque, Nadia, Kelloff, Carol L., Ventosa-Rodriguez, Iralys, Diazgranados, Mauricio, Bonifacino, J. Mauricio, and Chan, Raymund. 2014. "A phylogeny of the Gochnatieae: Understanding a critically placed tribe in the Compositae." Taxon 63 (4):859-882. 2014
- Bidensmeyeri (Asteraceae, Coreopsideae): a new critically endangered species from Rapa, Austral Islands. Phytokeys. 39-47. 2014
- Alexander, Sara N., Hoffman, Bruce, Kelloff, Carol L., and Funk, Vicki Ann. 2014. "Smithsonian Plant Collections, the Guianas: 1991-1993 and 1995-2000, Bruce Hoffman." Smithsonian Contributions to Botany (101): 1-188. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.19382812.101 2014
- Moquiniastrum (Gochnatieae, Asteraceae): disentangling the paraphyletic Gochnatia. Phytotaxa. 147:26-34. 2013
- Wen, Jun, Ree, Richard H., Ickert-Bond, Stefanie, Nie, Zelong, and Funk, Vicki Ann. 2013. "Biogeography: Where do we go from here?." Taxon 62 (5):912-927. https://doi.org/10.12705/625.15 2013
- IAPT Participation at the VII Congreso Colombiano de Botánica. Taxon. 62:1087-1089. 2013
- Institutional Votes for the 2017 Nomenclature Section. Taxon. 62:648-649. 2013
- Morphological characters add support for some members of the basal grade of Asteraceae. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 171:568-586. 2013
- New trends in plant systematics—Introduction. Taxon. 62:873-875. 2013
- Pollen morphology and its taxonomic significance in the tribe Gochnatieae (Compositae, Gochnatioideae). Plant Systematics and Evolution. 299:935-948. 2013
- Utility of QR codes in biological collections. Phytokeys. 25:21-34. 2013
- Funk, Vicki Ann, Robinson, Harold E., and Tangerini, Alice. 2013. "Whatever happened to Bishopanthus (Compositae, Liabeae)?." PhytoKeys 30:65-73. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.30.6652 2013
- Cuatrecasanthus (Vernonieae, Compositae): A revision of a north-central Andean genus. Phytokeys. 14:23-41. 2012
- Area and the rapid radiation of Hawaiian Bidens (Asteraceae). Journal of Biogeography. 39:1206-1216. 2012
- Nie, Ze-Long, Funk, Vicki Ann, Sun, Hang, Deng, Tao, Meng, Ying, and Wen, Jun. 2012. "Molecular phylogeny of Anaphalis (Asteraceae, Gnaphalieae) with biogeographic implications in the Northern Hemisphere." Journal of Plant Research 126 (1):17-32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10265-012-0506-6 2012
- News from the International Compositae Alliance 2012 Meeting. Compositae Newsletter. 50:9-10. 2012
- Phylogenetics of the Chiliotrichum group (Compositae: Astereae): The story of the fascinating radiation in the paleate Astereae genera from southern South America. Taxon. 61:180-196. 2012
- Funk, Vicki Ann, Kelloff, Carol L., and Chan, Raymund. 2012. "Phylogeny and biogeography of the tribe Liabeae (Compositae subfamily Cichorioideae)." Taxon 61 (2):437-455. 2012
- Program and Abstracts: The International Compositae Alliance 2012 Meeting, Montreal,July 15-19. Compositae Newsletter. 50:11-35. 2012
- Retrograde Biogeography. Taxon. 61:702-705. 2012
- The Compositae Newsletter reaches its 50th volume and Professor Nordenstam steps down as Editor after 25 years. Compositae Newsletter. 50:4-8. 2012
- A Monograph of the Small Tribe Platycarpheae (Compositae: Cichorioideae). Systematic Botany. 36:191-208. 2011
- A new genus, Nothovernonia, from tropical Africa (Asteraceae or Compositae: Vernonieae). Phytokeys. 3:21-34. 2011
- Miller, James S., Funk, Vicki Ann, Wagner, Warren L., Barrie, Fred R., Hoch, Peter C., and Herendeen, Patrick. 2011. "Outcomes of the 2011 Botanical Nomenclature Section at the XVIII International Botanical Congress." PhytoKeys 5:1-3. 2011
- Stephanbeckia plumosa (Liabeae: Compositae): A new genus and species from southern Bolivia. Brittonia. 63:75-82. 2011
- The controversy over the retypification of Acacia Mill. with an Australian type: A pragmatic view. Taxon. 60:194-198. 2011
- The monotypic Andean genus Fulcaldea (Compositae, Barnadesioideae) gains a new species from northeastern Brazil. Taxon. 60:1095-1103. 2011
- Empowering 21st Century Biology. Bioscience. 60:923-930. 2010
- Improving the use of information from museum specimens: Using Google Earth© to georeference Guiana Shield specimens in the US National Herbarium. Frontiers of Biogeography. 2:71-77. 2010
- Baird, Kristen E., Funk, Vicki Ann, Wen, Jun, and Weeks, Andrea. 2010. "Molecular phylogenetic analysis of Leibnitzia Cass. (Asteraceae: Mutisieae: Gerbera-complex), an Asian–North American disjunct genus." Journal of Systematics and Evolution 48 (3):161-174. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1759-6831.2010.00077.x 2010
- Ten things I learned on the way to the Mother Tree. Compositae Newsletter. 6-21. 2010
- A new tribe Platycarpheae and a new genus Platycarphella in the Cichorioideae (Compositae or Asteraceae). Compositae Newsletter. 47:24-27. 2009
- Families Anostomidae, Cetopsidae, Chilodontidae, Ctenoluccidae, Curimatidae, Prochilodontidae. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington. 17:26-28,36. 2009
- Fishes of the Guiana Shield. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington. 17:9-18. 2009
- New Tribes in Asteraceae. Phytologia. 91:568-570. 2009
- Sampera, a new genus of Liabeae (Compositae or Asteraceae) from the northern Andes. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 122:155-161. 2009
- Phylogeny of the Spiny African Daisies (Compositae, tribe Arctotideae, subtribe Gorteriinae) based on trnL-F, ndhF, and ITS sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 48:47-60. 2008
- Pollen and the evolution of Arctotideae (Compositae). Botanical Review. 74:438-466. 2008
- The value of sampling anomalous taxa in phylogenetic studies: Major clades of the Asteraceae revealed. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 47:757-782. 2008
- A Search for Pollen Morphological Synapomorphies to Classify Rogue Genera in Compositae (Asteraceae). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 146:169-181. 2007
- Cymbonotus (Compositae: Arctotideae, Arctotidinae): an endemic Australian genus embedded in a southern African clade. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 153:1-8. 2007
- Meta-trees: Grafting for a global perspective. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 232-240. 2007
- New infrafamilial taxa in Asteraceae. Phytologia. 89:356-360. 2007
- Summer Reading: To While Away Some Time...Michael Pollan, the Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World. Science. 316:1846. 2007
- A bibliography of plant collectors in Bolivia. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany. 1-20.
- A phylogenetic analysis of the Orchidaceae. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany. 1-79.
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book
- Kelloff, Carol L., Funk, Vicki A., and Alexander, Sara N. 2019. Smithsonian Plant Collections, Guiana Shield: 1985 - 2014, Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield Collections. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.1938-2812.110 2019
- Compositae-Vernonieae 2018
- Funk, Vicki Ann, Turland, N., and Wagner, Warren L. 2012. Colloquium in Honor of John McNeill. IAPT. 2012
- Kelloff, Carol L., Alexander, Sara N., Funk, Vicki Ann, and Clarke, H. David. 2011. Smithsonian Plant Collections, Guyana: 1995–2004, H. David Clarke. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.0081024X.97.1 2011
- Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae 2009
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chapter
- Funk, Vicki Ann and Kelloff, Carol L. 2011. "Introduction." in Smithsonian Plant Collections, Guyana: 1995-2004, edited by Kelloff, Carol L., Alexander, Sara N., Funk, Vicki Ann, and Clarke, H. D., 1-20. Smithsonian Institution. 2011
- Origin and Evolution of Hawaiian Endemics: New Patterns Revealed by Molecular Phylogenetic Studies. Biology of Island Floras. 57-88. 2011
- Heterolepis: an unplaced genus. 483-486. 2009
- A History of Research in Compositae: Early Beginnings to the Reading Meeting (1975). 3-38. 2009
- An introduction to micro-characters of Compositae. 89-100. 2009
- Arctotideae. 385-410. 2009
- Classification of Compositae. 171-189. 2009
- Compositae Metatrees: The Next Generation. 747-777. 2009
- Corymbieae. 487-491. 2009
- Eremothamneae. 411-416. 2009
- Eupatorieae. 731-744. 2009
- Evolution of pollen in Compositae. 101-130. 2009
- Gymnarrheneae (Gymnarrhenoideae). 327-332. 2009
- Hecastocleideae (Hecastocleidoideae). 261-265. 2009
- Introduction to Cichorioideae. 335-342. 2009
- Liabeae. 417-437. 2009
- Moquinieae. 477-481. 2009
- Original Figure Legends for Plates in Chapter 1. 869-871. 2009
- Platycarpheae. 471-476. 2009
- The Basal Grade of Compositae: Mutisieae (Sensu Cabrera) and Carduoideae. 193-213. 2009
- Vernonieae. 439-469. 2009
- Asteraceae. 175-180. 2007
- Liabeae (Asteraceae). Vol. 2007
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