Professor Pauline Ladiges

Research Interests

• The phylogeny and classification of eucalypts, acacias are other large genera based on morphology and molecular data
• Biogeography of the Australian flora.

Research Group

• Plant Systematics

Publications and Awards

Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
Awarded The Royal Society of Victoria Research Medal, Biological Sciences (non-human) for 2005

Recent papers or books

Ladiges, P.Y., Udovicic, and Nelson, G. 2003.  Australian biogeographic connections and the phylogeny of large genera in the plant family Myrtaceae.  J. Biogeog.30, 989-998.

Murphy, D.J., Miller, J.T., Bayer, R.J., and Ladiges, P.Y.  2003. Molecular phylogeny of Acacia subgenus Phyllodineae (Mimosoideae: Leguminosae) based on DNA sequences of the internal transcribed spacer region.  Aust. Syst. Bot.16, 19-26.

Ladiges, P.Y. and Udovicic, F. 2005 Comment on molecular dating of the age of eucalypts. Aust. Syst. Bot. 18, 291-293.

Ladiges, P.Y., Ariati, S.R., and Murphy, D. J.  2005. Biogeography of the Acacia victoriae, pyrifolia and murryana species groups in arid Australia. J. Arid Environ. (in press)

Ladiges, P.Y., Kellerman, J. Nelson, G. and Humphries, C.J.  2005. Historical biogeography of Australian Rhamnaceae, tribe Pomaderreae.  J. Biogeog. (in press)

Brown, G.K., Craven L., Udovicic, F. and Ladiges, P.Y.  2005. Phylogeny of Rhododendron section Vireya (Ericaceae) based on two non-coding regions of cpDNA. Pl. Syst. & Evol. (in press)

Knox, R.B., Ladiges, P.Y., Evans, B.K., and Saint, R. 2004. (Editors) Biology, 3rd Edition. McGraw-Hill, Sydney.1204 pages. 

Award for excellence:

Winner of Tertiary Education (Wholly Australian) Single title Category 2005