Missouri Botanical Garden
P.O. Box 299
St. Louis, MO 63166-0299
U.S.A.
Ihsan Al-Shehbaz
[Photo],
Curator, is a former co-director of the Flora of China project. His
responsibilities include editing and tracking manuscripts, corresponding with authors,
collaborators, and reviewers, writing
proposals, progress reports, and newsletters, submitting budgets, and assisting with the
publicity and
management of the project. His main botanical interests are the systematics and evolution
of Brassicaceae on a worldwide basis, with emphasis on the
South American and Chinese members. Al-Shehbaz is also revising the South American members
of Draba. He will be the
principal author of the family for the Flora of North America and is actively working with
Chinese botanists on the revision
for the Flora of China.
(from News from MO, © Missouri Botanical Garden)