Alexandre Kenneth Monro

Alexandre Kenneth Monro (born 1968), UK botanist. Also published as Alex K. Monro.

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AE, London, United Kingdom.

IPNI standard form: A.K.Monro

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Monro, A.K. & Stafford, P.J. 1998. A synopsis of the genus Echinopepon (Cucurbitaceae: Sicyeae), including three new taxa. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85: 257–272. JSTOR BHL Reference page.

Christenhusz, M.J.M., Chase, M.W., Fay, M.F., Lumbsch, H.T., Monro, A.K., Vorontsova, M.S. & Zhang, Z.-Q. 2009. A new international journal for rapid publication of botanical taxonomy. Phytotaxa 1: 1–2. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.1.1.1 Reference page.
Monro, A.K. 2009. A new species of Pilea (Urticaceae) from the Talamanca Mountains, Costa Rica. Phytotaxa 2: 24–28. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.2.1.4 Reference page.
Monro, A.K. & Rodríguez, A. 2009. Three new species and a nomenclatural synopsis of Urera (Urticaceae) from Mesoamerica. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 96: 268–285. BHL Reference page.

Wei, Y.-G., Monro, A.K. & Wang, W.-T. 2013. Additions to the Flora of China: three new species of Elatostema (Urticaceae) from Guangxi. Phytotaxa 147(1): 1–12. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.147.1.1 Reference page.
Henning, T., Quandt, D., Grosse-Veldmann, B., Monro, A.K. & Weigend, M. 2014. Weeding the Nettles II: A delimitation of "Urtica dioica L. (Urticaceae) based on morphological and molecular data, including a rehabilitation of Urtica gracilis Ait. Phytotaxa 162(2): 61–83. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.162.2.1 ResearchGate Reference page.

Monro, A.K., Santamaría Aguilar, D., González, F., Chacón, O., Solano, D., Rodríguez, A., Zamora, N., Fedele, E. & Correa, M. 2017. A first checklist to the vascular plants of La Amistad International Park (PILA), Costa Rica-Panama. Phytotaxa 322: 1–283. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.322.1.1 Reference page.
Stonis, J. R., Diškus, A., Paulavičiūtė, B. & Monro, A.K. 2017, Urticaceae-feeders from the family Tischeriidae: descriptions of two new species and new genus Paratischeria gen. nov. Biologija, 63(1): 1–22. DOI: 10.6001/biologija.v63i1.3470. . Reference page.
Stonis, J. R., Diškus, A., Remeikis, A. & Monro, A.K. 2017e. The mystery of thetiny Urticaceae-feeders: documentation of the first leaf-mining Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) species from equatorial America associated with Phenax, Boehmeria and Pilea. Biologija, 63(2): 105–125. DOI: 10.6001/biologija.v63i2.3523. . Reference page.

Tseng, Y.H., Monro, A.K., Wei, Y.-G. & Hu, J.M. 2019. Molecular phylogeny and morphology of Elatostema s.l. (Urticaceae): Implications for inter-and infrageneric classifications. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 132: 251–264. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.11.016 Reference page.
Gardner, E.M., Garner, M., Cowan, R., Dodsworth, S., Epitawalage, N., Arifiani, D., Baker, W.J., Forest, F., Maurin, O., Zerega, N.J.C., Monro, A.K. & Hipp, A.L. 2021. Repeated parallel losses of inflexed stamens in Moraceae: phylogenomics and generic revision of the tribe Moreae and the reinstatement of the tribe Olmedieae (Moraceae). Taxon 70(5): 946–988. DOI: 10.1002/tax.12526 Reference page.

Stonis, J.R., Diškus, A., Solis, M.A. & Monro, A.K. 2021. Diagnostics of Manitischeria gen. nov., an Old-World genus of leaf-mining Tischeriidae, composed of new species and species formerly in Tischeria Zeller. Zootaxa 4964(2): 2851–287. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4964.2.2 full article pdf Reference page.

Smith, L.T., Magdalena, C., Przelomska, N.A.S., Pérez-Escobar, O.A., Melgar-Gómez, D.G., Beck, S., Negrão, R., Mian, S., Leitch, I.J., Dodsworth, S., Maurin, O., Ribero-Guardia, G., Salazar, C.D., Gutierrez-Sibauty, G., Antonelli, A. & Monro, A.K. 2022. Revised species delimitation in the giant water lily genus Victoria (Nymphaeaceae) confirms a new species and has implications for its conservation. Frontiers in Plant Science 13-883151. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.883151 Reference page.