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Current projects

  • Guide to bryophytes of sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Mosses and Liverworts of Uganda.
  • Mosses of Sri Lanka
  • Review of African Sematophyllaceae, initially covering Malawi and Uganda.
  • Review of African Leucodontaceae.
  • Taxonomic results of the BM's Norkett expedition to Seychelles, 1973-4. This has already resulted in revisions for Africa of Acanthorrhynchium, Clastobryophilum, Gammiella, Papillidiopsis, Radulina, Rhaphidostichum and Warburgiella, and the papers are published in a series: Notes on Seychelles mosses. A Handbook of Seychelles mosses has been started.
  • Identification of collections: Cook Islands & New Zealand, 2000; Peru 2001;  India 2002; Venezuela 2004; Sri Lanka 2004.
  • Annotated checklist of the mosses of Cook Islands.
  • Checklist of the mosses of St. Helena and Ascension.
  • Checklist of the mosses of India
  • Distribution and diversity of tropical mosses, and maintenance of the checklist of sub-Saharan African mosses.