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Dr. Amara Osei — PhD Plant Biology, University of Ghana / Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Dr. Amara Osei is a plant biologist and botanist specialising in tropical plant ecology, medicinal plant science, and plant evolutionary biology. She completed her PhD jointly at the University of Ghana and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in 2012, where she studied the diversity and conservation of West African flowering plants. Dr. Osei has conducted extensive fieldwork across sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Neotropics, documenting plant species diversity, pollination systems, and ethnobotanical plant use. She has collaborated with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), the IUCN Species Survival Commission's Plant Group, and the USDA Plants Database. Her research has appeared in journals including Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, New Phytologist, and Plant Ecology. Flora Science was founded in 2023 to make cutting-edge plant science accessible to a global readership.
Affiliations & Collaborations: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew · GBIF · IUCN Plant Group · USDA
Research focus: Tropical plants, pollination biology, medicinal plants, plant evolution.
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