Botanical Projects
I drew these in pencil on 8.5x11 paper and then reduced them to use in this introductory table. See the full paper at: https://www.phytoneuron.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/30PhytoN-AbutilonArizona.pdf
Platanus leaf fossil from the Miocene of Mississippi
In the fall of 2014, I helped find a really cool plant fossil site outside of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. After several years of research we've put our thoughts here: https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2019/2540-miocene-plants-of-mississippi. Rest in peace Dr. Axsmith. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Axsmith
Habitat photos from my masters thesis: The Vascular Flora of Wayne County, Mississippi
http://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/149/
Cover photo (Catalina ironwood leaf) for the Sun Star Review, Spring 2016
Just three issues were published: https://sunstarlitdotcom.wordpress.com/library/
https://www.phytoneuron.net/2020Phytoneuron/78PhytoN-SapindusArizona.pdf
I needed to confirm that a fossil cuticle was, in fact, Platanus, so I prepared some modern Platanus cuticle for comparison. The upper cuticle is on the left (with all the stomata) and lower cuticle is on the right. https://cuticledb.eesi.psu.edu/cuticle/1583/
A diagram of different leaf venation photography methods for the journal Phytoneuron
http://www.phytoneuron.net/2015Phytoneuron/39PhytoN-ImagingVenation.pdf
Cover photo for the journal Castanea, September 2016
https://castaneajournal.com/castanea-archives/
From my first and limited run on the genus Abutilon: http://www.phytoneuron.net/2018Phytoneuron/84PhytoN-AbutilonIDs.pdf.
For the journal JBRIT about the aquatic Blyxa aubertii
In my haste as a young botanist, I declared that this was a "new record" for Mississippi even though it had already been documented by the late Dr. Jean Wooten, whom you can read more about here: https://www.usm.edu/biological-environmental-earth-sciences/herbarium-about-us.php
Seed of the newly descriped species, Lycianthes textitlaniana, for the journal Phytologia
http://www.phytologia.org/uploads/2/3/4/2/23422706/99_4_241-248dean_et_al_lycianthes_new_speciesed11-29-17.pdf
Cover photo for the journal Castanea, March 2017
https://castaneajournal.com/castanea-archives/
Seed Cones of California Pines (an educational poster)
Free digital poster (PDF) available at: http://herbarium.ucdavis.edu/pdfs/Posters/Seed_Cones_of_California_Pines.pdf. Printed copies available for sale, details here: http://herbarium.ucdavis.edu/taxonomicresources.html
From my masters thesis: Rain lily (Zephyranthes atamasco)
Wayne County, Mississippi 2013-04-08 http://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/149/
Triarch Botanical Images Awards
source: http://www.amjbot.org
Cover photo for the journal Castanea, June 2016
Pinewoods milkweed (Asclepias humistrata) and a female leafcutting bee ( Megachile sp.). Identification of the bee was provided by the late Robbin Thorp (University of California, Davis). https://castaneajournal.com/castanea-archives/
