Dr. Gordon C. Tucker
Professor | Herbarium Curator Office: 3027 - Life SciencesEmail: gctucker@eiu.edu
INTRODUCTION
A vascular plant systematist, Dr. Tucker is a specialist on the sedge family. He serves as curator of the Stover-Ebinger Herbarium. He has strong interests in field botany and has conducted inventories for The Illinois Dept. of Natural Resources and other agencies. His teaching interests include Plant Taxonomy, Dendrology, Wetland and Aquatic Plants, Economic Botany, and Medicinal Plants. He regularly teaches a senior seminar, Plants and Civilization (EIU 4111G). He has recently published papers and monographs on the sedges of North America, Venezuela, and Brazil. Current projects include studies of the sedge genera Cyperus, Kyllinga, and Carex for the Flora of China, in collaboration with the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Chinese National Academy of Sciences.
Education & Training
A.B. 1979. Cornell University. Biology/Botany
M.S. 1981. Duke University. Botany.
Ph.D. 1985. Duke University. Botany.
Post-doc. 1985-1990. N.Y. State Museum/Harvard University.
Conference Presentations
Gordon Tucker & David A. Simpson
Biogeography and Diversity of Cyperaceae in China. 2013.
Gordon Tucker
Botanical Inventory of Prairie Ridge State Natural Area, Jasper County, Illinois. 2007
Gordon Tucker
Systematics of Cyperus L. (Cyperaceae) in Brazil. 2007
John Ebinger, Gordon Tucker, Nick Owens and William McClain
Glacial Drift Hill Prairies of the Prairie Peninsula. 2006
Bob Edgin, Gordon C. Tucker and John E. Ebinger.
Vegetation and Flora of American Beech Woods Nature Preserve, Clark County, IL. 2003
Community
Charleston Tree Commission (since 2006)
Publications
Deng, T., D.G. Zhang, Z. Liu, G. C. Tucker, H. Sun, & Z.L. Nie. 2013. Oxalis wulingensis, an unusual new Oxalis (Oxalidaceae) species from Hunan and Hubei, China. Systematic Botany 38: 154-161.
Sy, D.T., T.T. Bach,R.K. Choudhary, G.C. Tucker, X. Cornejo, & J. Lee. 2013. . Capparis daknongensis (Capparaceae), a new species from Vietnam. Annales Botanici Fennici 50: 99-102. Tucker, G.C., K.K. Shrestha, & S. Dajal. 2011. Capparaceae. Flora of Nepal 3: 96-102. Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.
_____, K.K. Shrestha, & J.P. Gajurel. 2011. Cleomaceae. Flora of Nepal 3: 103-107. Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.
_____, & J.E. Ebinger. 2011. A review of the Genus Scleria (Cyperaceae) in Illinois. Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science 104: 109-118.
Tucker, G.C. 2009 onwards. Cleomaceae. In: Neotropikey. Version 1 (Aug. 2009). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.kew.org/science/tropamerica/neotropikey.htm
Tucker, G.C., B. Edgin, J.E. Ebinger, & N. Owens. 2009. Botanical Inventory of Wildcat Hollow State Forest, Effingham County, Illinois. Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science 101: 167-185.
Zhang, M. L. & G.C. Tucker. 2008. Capparaceae. In: Wu, C. Y., Raven, P. H. & Hong, D. Y. (eds.), Flora of China 7: 433-450. Science Press, Beijing and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
Tucker, G.C. 2008. Cyperus alvesii (Cyperaceae), a new species from northeastern Brazil. Harvard Papers in Botany 13: 237-240.
Tucker, G.C. 2007. Helictotrichon Besser. in Barkworth, M.E., K.M. Capels, S. Long, & M.B. Piep (eds.), Flora of North America, north of Mexico. Poaceae, part 1: 701-702. New York and Oxford.
Yang, Q. E. & Tucker, G. C. 2007. Elatinaceae. Pp. 55-56 in: Wu, Z. Y., Raven, P. H. & Hong, D. Y., (eds.), Flora of China vol. 13 (Clusiaceae through Araliaceae). Science Press, Beijing and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
Tucker, G.C. 2007. Systematics of Cyperus L. section Diffusi Kunth (Cyperaceae) in the Neotropics. in Barbosa, L.M. and N.A. Santos (eds.), A botânica no Brasil: pesquisa, ensino e políticas públicas ambientais. Soc. Bot. Bras. Bull. 238A: 311-314. São Paulo.
Frequently Taught Courses
Medicinal Plants
Economic Botany
Plants and Civilization
General Biology (BIO 1500)
Office Hours
Fall 2024
Monday 1130-1230
Wednesday 1100-1200