Dr Ashton K. Welcome

Overview

Qualifications PhD (Botany), MSc, BSc Hons, BSc (University of Johannesburg) Research Focus Dr Welcome is a taxonomist and ethnobotanist, with her main research interests being in the edible plants of southern Africa (her PhD topic) as well as the Malvaceae plant family. Her future research will combine both of these interests to revise problematic food plant genera as well as in determining their plant use value. She also has an interest in sharing the value of herbarium collections and in developing open access educational resources that inspire others to learn more about plants. Teaching Activities Plant diversity (BOT01B1) Advanced plant taxonomy and Economic Botany (BOT8X05) Publications Welcome, AK and Van Wyk BE (2019). An inventory and analysis of the food plants of southern Africa. South African Journal of Botany 122, 136-179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2018.11.003 Welcome, AK and Van Wyk BE (2020). Spatial patterns, availability and cultural preferences for edible plants in southern Africa. Journal of Biogeography 47 (3), 584-599. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13743 Welcome, AK and Victor, JE (2022). A revision of the genus Pavonia Cav.(Malvaceae) in the Flora of southern Africa (FSA) region. South African Journal of Botany 146, 262-285. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2021.10.026 Conference Outputs Welcome, AK (2021). Identifying the useful species of Malvaceae. 23 rd Indigenous Plant Use Forum. Online, 5-7 July. Welcome, AK and Victor, JE (2021). Using herbarium specimen data to further understand the species of Pavonia Cav. in the FSA region. 5 th Annual Digital Data Conference, Online, 7-9 June. https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/5th_Annual_Digital_Data_Conference,_Florida_Museum_of_Natural_History Welcome, AK (2020). A joint effort for the quality control of herbarium specimen data. 4 th Annual Digital Data Conference, Online, 1-3 June. https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/4th_Annual_Digital_Data_Conference,_Indiana_University Welcome AK and Van Wyk BE (2019). Cross-cultural food plant selection in southern Africa. 22 nd Indigenous Plant Use Forum. Limpopo, Tshipise, 7-10 July. Welcome AK and Van Wyk BE (2018). The taxonomic diversity and spatial patterns of indigenous and naturalized food plants of southern Africa. Joint conference of the society of Ethnobiology and Society for Economic Botany. Wisconsin, 3-7 June. Welcome AK and Van Wyk BE (2018). The nutritional value of southern African food plants: What are the patterns and where are the gaps? 21 st Indigenous Plant Use Forum. Oudtshoorn, Western Cape, 1-4 July. Welcome AK and Van Wyk BE (2018). The impact of ethnobotanical inventories and quantitative analyses: New insights revealed by an inventory of all edible plants in the flora of southern Africa region. 44 th Annual conference of the South African Association of Botanists. Pretoria, Gauteng, 9-12 January. Ruiters AK and Van Wyk BE (2017). A new method to determine the cultural and biome patterns of edible plants. 20 th Indigenous Plant Use Forum. Pretoria, Gauteng, 9-12 July. Ruiters AK and Van Wyk BE (2017). New insights from an updated checklist of the food plants of southern Africa. 43 rd Annual conference of the South African Association of Botanists. Belville, Western Cape, 8-11 January. External links Orchid Google Scholar k-ruiter