Bonaventure Sonké

Bonaventure Sonké (born 1962), Cameroonian botanist.

Université de Yaoundé I, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Yaoundé, Cameroon (in 2014)

Plant Systematic and Ecology Laboratory, Higher Teacher’s Training College, University of Yaoundé I, P.O. Box 047, Yaoundé, Cameroon; Missouri Botanical Garden, Africa & Madagascar Department, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-0299, USA; Herbarium et Bibliothèque de Botanique africaine, CP 169, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Av. F. Roosevelt 50, B-1050, Brussels, Belgium (in 2015)

University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon; University of Yaoundé I, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Yoaundé, Cameroon (in 2020)

IPNI standard form: Sonké

Taxon names authored

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• 4 taxon names authored by Bonaventure Sonké

Publications

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• Verstraete, B., Lachenaud, O., Smets, E., Dessein, S. & Sonké, B. 2013. Taxonomy and phylogenetics of Cuviera (Rubiaceae - Vanguerieae) and reinstatement of Globulostylis with the description of three new species. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 173: 407–411. DOI: 10.1111/boj.12062. Reference page. 
• Sonké, B. & Couvreur, T.L.P. 2014. Tree diversity of the Dja Faunal Reserve, southeastern Cameroon. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e1049. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.2.e1049 Reference page. 
• Zemagho, L.A., Lachenaud, O., Dessein, S., Liede-Schumann, S. & Sonké, B. 2014. Two new Sabicea (Rubiaceae) species from west central Africa: Sabicea bullata and Sabicea urniformis. Phytotaxa 173(4): 285–292. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.173.4.3 Reference page. 
• Sonké, B., Bidault, E. & Droissaert, V. 2015. Taxonomic revision of the genus Massularia (Rubiaceae, Gardenieae), with a new species from Central Africa. Phytotaxa 203(3): 263–270. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.203.3.5 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Zemagho, L.A., Liede-Schumann, S., Sonké, B., Janssens, S., Lachenaud, O., Verstraete, B. & Dessein, S. 2016. Phylogenetics of tribe Sabiceeae (Ixoroideae, Rubiaceae) revisited, with a new subgeneric classification for Sabicea. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 182(3): 551–580. DOI: 10.1111/boj.12475 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Cheek, M., Alvarez-Aguirre, M.G., Grall, A., Sonké, B., Howes, M.J.R. & Larridon, I. 2018. Kupeantha (Coffeeae, Rubiaceae), a new genus from Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. PloS one 13(6), p.e0199324. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0199324 Reference page. 
• Lachenaud, O., Stévart, T. & Sonké, B. 2020. Three new species of Tricalysia (Rubiaceae) from Atlantic Central Africa. Plant Ecology and Evolution 153(2): 257–266. DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.2020.1670 Reference page. 
• Farminhão, J.N.M., Biteau, J.P., Yakhouba, D., Savignac, M., Simo-Droissart, M., Dorissart, V., Sonké, B. & Stévart, T. 2023. A single origin of leaflessness in Afro-Malagasy angraecoids (Orchidaceae, Angraecinae). Taxon 72(3): 486–500. DOI: 10.1002/tax.12932 ResearchGate Reference page. 

External links

• Curriculum vitae (detailed up to 2003) (Université libre de Bruxelles)
• Curriculum vitae (Central African Orchid database)
• Curriculum vitae (Université de Yaoundé I)