Kevin Thiele

Kevin R. Thiele (born 1959), Australian botanist.

• curator of the Western Australian Herbarium (2006–2015)
• School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia (in 2023)

IPNI standard form: K.R.Thiele

Taxon names authored

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• 187 taxon names authored by Kevin Thiele

Eponyms

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• 1 eponym of Kevin Thiele

Publications

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1980s

• Thiele, K.R. 1986. A new species of Carex (Cyperaceae: Caricoideae) from south eastern Australia . Muelleria 6(3): 201–204. PDF Reference page. 

1990s

• Thiele, K.R. & Ladiges, P.Y. 1996. A cladistic analysis of Banksia (Proteaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 9(5): 661–733. DOI: 10.1071/SB9960661 Reference page. 

2000s

• Thiele, K.R. & Jordan, P. 2002. Thismia clavarioides (Thismiaceae), a new species of Fairy Lantern from New South Wales. Telopea 9(4): 765–771. BHL PDF Reference page. 
• Thiele, K.R. & Prober, S. 2003. New species and New Hybrid in the Viola hederacea species complex, with notes on Viola hederacea Labill. Muelleria 18: 7–25. PDF ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Thiele, K.R. & Prober, S. 2006. Viola silicestris, a new species in Viola section Erpetion from Australia. Telopea 11(2): 99–104. BHL PDF ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Kellermann, J., Rye, B.L. & Thiele, K.R. 2006. Polianthion, a new genus of Rhamnaceae (Pomaderreae) from Western Australia and Queensland. Australian Systematic Botany 19(2): 169–181. DOI: 10.1071/SB05027 Reference page. 
• Mast, A.R. & Thiele, K.R. 2007. The transfer of Dryandra R.Br. to Banksia L.f. (Proteaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 20(1): 63–71. DOI: 10.1071/SB06016 Reference page. 
• Wege, J.A. & Thiele, K.R. 2009. Two new species of Hibbertia (Dilleniaceae) from near Ravensthorpe in Western Australia. Nuytsia 19(2): 303–319. PDF Reference page. 
• Thiele, K.R. 2009. Three new species of Hibbertia (Dilleniaceae) from Western Australia. Nuytsia 19(2): 283–293. PDF Reference page. 

2010s

• Barrett, R.L., Schmidt-Lebuhn, A.N. & Thiele, K.R. 2013. Two Western Australian species of Ozothamnus transferred to Pithocarpa (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae). Nuytsia 23: 103–108. PDF Reference page. 
• Hislop, M.C., Thiele, K.R. & Brassington, D. 2013. Cochlospermum macnamarae (Bixaceae), a rare, new endemic from the Pilbara bioregion of Western Australia. Nuytsia 23: 89–94. PDF Reference page. 
• Davis, R.W., Hammer, T.A. & Thiele, K.R. 2014. Two new and rare species of Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae) from the Eneabba sand plains, Western Australia. Nuytsia 24: 123–129. PDF Reference page. 
• Hammer, T., Davis, R. & Thiele, K.R. 2015. A molecular framework phylogeny for Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae): Evidence for the rapid diversification of an arid Australian genus. Taxon 64(2): 272–285. DOI: 10.12705/642.6 Reference page. 
• Thiele, K.R., Weston, P.H. & Mast, A.R. 2015. Paraphyly, modern systematics and the transfer of Dryandra into Banksia (Proteaceae): a response to George. Australian Systematic Botany 28(3): 194–202. DOI: 10.1071/SB15015 Reference page. 
• Shepherd, K.A., Thiele, K.R., Sampson, J., Coates, D.J. & Byrne, M.M. 2015. A rare, new species of Atriplex (Chenopodiaceae) comprising two genetically distinct but morphologically cryptic populations in arid Western Australia: implications for taxonomy and conservation. Australian Systematic Botany 28(4): 234–245. DOI: 10.1071/SB15029 Reference page. 
• Hammer, T., Davis, R. & Thiele, K.R. 2015. A molecular framework phylogeny for Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae): Evidence for the rapid diversification of an arid Australian genus. Taxon 64(2): 272–285. DOI: 10.12705/642.6 Reference page. 
• Davis, R.W., Hammer, T.A. & Thiele, K.R. 2016. A new and rare species of Nymphoides (Menyanthaceae) from the North West of Western Australia. Nuytsia 27: 245–252. PDF Reference page. 
• Hammer, T.A., Davis, R.W. & Thiele, K.R. 2017[2018]. Species of Ptilotus, in: KeyBase: Flowering plants of Australia. Reference page. 
• Hammer, T.A., Davis, R.W. & Thiele, K.R. 2017. Wadithamnus, a new monotypic genus in Amaranthaceae. Phytotaxa 295(2): 173–184. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.295.2 Reference page. 
• Thiele, K.R. 2017. Hibbertia striata, a new combination for a long-overlooked Western Australian species, and inclusion of H. pachyrrhiza in H. huegelii. Nuytsia 28: 247–253. PDF Reference page. 
• Thiele, K.R. 2017. Hibbertia sejuncta, a new, rare species from Western Australia, with notes on H. helianthemoides. Nuytsia 28: 115–117. PDF. Reference page. 
• Shepherd, K.A. & Thiele, K.R. 2017. Teucrium disjunctum, a new name for Spartothamnella canescens (Lamiaceae). Nuytsia 28: 139–140. PDF. Reference page. 
• Hammer, T., Davis, R. & Thiele, K. 2018. The showy and the shy: reinstatement of two species from Ptilotus gaudichaudii (Amaranthaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 31(1): 1–7. DOI: 10.1071/SB17026 Reference page. 
• Thiele, K.R. 2018. Two new species of Hibbertia (Dilleniaceae) from Western Australia Nuytsia 29: 151–155. PDF Reference page. 
• Hammer, T.A., Macintyre, P.D., Nge, F.J., Davis, R.W., Mucina, L. & Thiele, K.R. 2018. The noble and the exalted: a multidisciplinary approach to resolving a taxonomic controversy within Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 31(3): 262–280. DOI: 10.1071/SB17062 Reference page. 
• Takawira-Nyenya, R., Mucina, L, Cardinal-McTeague, W.M. & Thiele, K.R. 2018. Sansevieria (Asparagaceae, Nolinoideae) is a herbaceous clade within Dracaena: inference from non-coding plastid and nuclear DNA sequence data. Phytotaxa 376(6): 254–276. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.376.6.2 Reference page. 
• Hammer, T.A., Zhong, X., Colas des Francs-Small, C., Nevill, P.G., Small, I.D. & Thiele, K.R. 2019. Resolving intergeneric relationships in the aervoid clade and the backbone of Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae): Evidence from whole plastid genomes and morphology. Taxon 68(2): 297–314. DOI: 10.1002/tax.12054 Reference page. 

2020s

• Joyce, E.M., Appelhans, M.S., Buerki, S., Cheek, M., de Vos, J.M., Pirani, J.R., Zuntini, A.R., Bachelier, J.B., Bayly, M.J., Callmander, M.W. & Devecchi, M.F., Pell, S.K., Groppo, M., Lowry, P.P. II, Mitchell, J., Siniscalchi, C.M., Munzinger, J., Orel, H.K., Pannell, C.M., Nauheimer, L., Sauquet, H., Weeks, A., Muellner-Riehl, A.N., Leitch, I.J., Maurin, O., Forest, F., Nargar, K., Thiele, K.R., Baker, W.J. & Crayn, D.M. 2023. Phylogenomic analyses of Sapindales support new family relationships, rapid Mid-Cretaceous hothouse diversification, and heterogeneous histories of gene duplication. Frontiers in Plant Science 14: 1–14. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1063174 Reference page.