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List of works by Robin David Smissen

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Revised circumscription of Nothofagus and recognition of the segregate genera Fuscospora, Lophozonia, and Trisyngyne (Nothofagaceae)

scientific article

Systematics of Libinhania, a new endemic genus of Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae) from the Socotra archipelago (Yemen), inferred from plastid, low-copy nuclear and nuclear ribosomal DNA loci

scientific article published in March 2017

A review of genetic analyses of hybridisation in New Zealand

scientific article published in March 2009

Subfamilial relationships within Caryophyllaceae as inferred from 5' ndhF sequences

scientific article published in 2002

Intraspecific relationships among wood density, leaf structural traits and environment in four co-occurring species of Nothofagus in New Zealand

scientific article

When do plant radiations influence community assembly? The importance of historical contingency in the race for niche space.

scientific article published on 13 March 2015

Phylogenetic relationships in Helichrysum (Compositae: Gnaphalieae) and related genera: Incongruence between nuclear and plastid phylogenies, biogeographic and morphological patterns, and implications for generic delimitation

scientific article (publication date: 30 June 2014)

An artificial intergeneric hybrid derived from sexual hybridization between the distantly related Arabidopsis thaliana and Pachycladon cheesemanii (Brassicaceae)

scientific article published in July 2008

Inclusion of chloroplast genes that have undergone expansion misleads phylogenetic reconstruction in the Chlorophyta

scientific article published on 22 October 2013

Morphological and genetic evidence of contemporary intersectional hybridisation in Mediterranean Helichrysum (Asteraceae, Gnaphalieae).

scientific article published on 22 March 2012

Phylogeny and Biogeography of Craspedia (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae) Based on ITS, ETS and psbA-trnH Sequence Data

scientific article (publication date: August 2007)

Cardamine cubita (Brassicaceae), a new species from New Zealand with a remarkable reduction in floral parts

scientific article

Biosystematics and conservation: a case study with two enigmatic and uncommon species of Crassula from New Zealand.

scientific article published on 30 November 2007

Comparing diversity of fungi from living leaves using culturing and high-throughput environmental sequencing.

scientific article

Pulling the sting out of nettle systematics - A comprehensive phylogeny of the genus Urtica L. (Urticaceae).

scientific article

Systematics of Simplicia Kirk (Poaceae, Agrostidinae) - an endemic, threatened New Zealand grass genus

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

A revised subtribal classification of Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae)

scientific article published in August 2020

Species delimitation and genetic variation in the rare New Zealand endemic grass genus Simplicia

article

Morphological and phylogenetic evidence for subtribe Cinninae and two new subtribes, Hookerochloinae and Dupontiinae (Poaceae tribe Poeae PPAM clade)

scholarly article published in 2022

Systematics of Scleranthus (Caryophyllaceae)

1999 doctoral thesis by Robin David Smissen at Victoria University of Wellington

Plastid DNA from the extinct Trilepidea adamsii confirms its close relationship to Alepis and Peraxilla (Loranthaceae)

article published in 2022

Diversity of Spirogyra in New Zealand, and its distribution with respect to environmental drivers

article published in New Zealand Journal of Botany in 2025

A dated phylogeny shows Plio‐Pleistocene climates spurred evolution of antibrowsing defences in the New Zealand flora

scientific article published in 2021

Revisiting the bicontinental allopolyploid origin of Australasian Lepidium species with amplicon sequencing of 15 nuclear genes

A test of reproductive isolation among three sympatric putative species of Craspedia (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae) at Mt Arthur in New Zealand

scientific article published in 2010

Cephaloziella tahora Bever. & Glenny, a new species of Cephaloziella (Jungermanniopsida, Cephaloziellaceae) from eastern Taranaki, New Zealand

scholarly article published in 2016

Plastid genome sequences are consistent with introduction of Phormium tenax to Norfolk Island and Chatham Islands by early East Polynesian voyagers but not vicariance explanations

scientific article published on 13 February 2022

Fifty shades of grey: black beech and mountain beech are genetically distinct but locally admixed

scientific article published on 2 October 2018

Characterisation of SSR markers for New Zealand Craspedia and their application in Kahurangi National Park

scientific article published in 2015

Plastid DNA sequence data of the extinct Logania depressa (Loganiaceae) from New Zealand confirm its generic placement

scientific article published on 11 July 2022

Checklist of the New Zealand Flora – Seed Plants

2021 checklist of the Names in the Allan Herbarium names database for seed plants

Diversity of Spirogyra in New Zealand, and its distribution with respect to environmental drivers

scientific article published on 2 February 2025

A new classification of rosette-forming<i>Brachyglottis</i>(Asteraceae: Senecioneae) recognising a single species:<i>Brachyglottis lagopus</i>

scientific article published on 25 June 2018

Pseudognaphalium (Asteraceae, Gnaphalieae) diversity in New Zealand revealed by DNA sequences with notes on the phylogenetic relationships of Hawaiian Islands plants referred to Pseudognaphalium sandwicensium

scientific article published on 19 October 2022

Root traits are multidimensional: specific root length is independent from root tissue density and the plant economic spectrum

scientific article published on 26 February 2016

Genetic variation in Trithuria inconspicua and T. filamentosa (Hydatellaceae): a new subspecies and a hypothesis of apomixis arising within a predominantly selfing lineage

scientific article published in 2019

New Zealand endemic Neomyrtus is sister to New Caledonian endemic Myrtastrum (Myrtaceae, Myrteae)

scientific article published on 22 August 2021

Ancient allopolyploidy in the everlasting daisies (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae): Complex relationships among extant clades

scientific article published on June 2011

The biogeographical history of the interaction between mycoheterotrophic Thismia (Thismiaceae) plants and mycorrhizal Rhizophagus (Glomeraceae) fungi

Spatial distribution of species, genus and phylogenetic endemism in the vascular flora of New Zealand, and implications for conservation

scientific article published in January 2017

Asterales (Sunflower)

Phylogenetic measures of neo- and palaeo-endemism in the indigenous vascular flora of the New Zealand archipelago

article published in Australian Systematic Botany in 2017

ddRADseq reveals the relationships of harakeke and wharariki (Phormium species, Asphodelaceae) and selected weaving cultivars in Aotearoa New Zealand

article published in November 2022

A dated phylogeny of Argophyllaceae (Asterales) is consistent with spread by long-distance dispersal

scientific article published in 2021

Two genetic and ecological groups of Nostoc commune in Victoria Land, Antarctica, revealed by AFLP analysis

scientific article published in 2006

Flora of New Zealand – Seed Plants. Fascicle 3. Nothofagaceae

fascicle published in 2016

Methods for the extraction, storage, amplification and sequencing of DNA from environmental samples

Species-specific male pollinators found for three native New Zealand greenhood orchids (Pterostylis spp.) suggest pollination by sexual deception

scholarly article published in 2018