Blanca León
Research Fellow — Ph.D., Aarhus University, Denmark
Contact
- E-mail: leon@austin.utexas.edu
- Office Hours: by appointment
- Campus Mail Code: A3100
Biography
Blanca is a plant taxonomist by training. Her main research interests are plant diversity, Neotropical plant conservation, and biogeography. She is interested in the fern Andean flora, particularly in the family Polypodiaceae. She continues her work on compiling records on plant endemism in Peru for future evaluation of their conservation status. Together with Kenneth R. Young (University of Texas), and several colleagues and students in Peru, are working on field evaluation of populations of some highly restricted species, like Orthopterygium huaucui.
Blanca, as a co-author, and Dr. John H. Wiersema (USDA-ARS-PSI) are working on a second edition of “World Economic plants”. The initial work and all updates is searchable on-line (http://www.ars-grin.gov/~sbmljw/cgi-bin/taxecon.pl), and provides information for over 9500 plant species used worldwide.
