Julie F. Barcelona, born on January 1, 1972 is a Filipino botanist and taxonomist. She is currently working in Christchurch, New Zealand at the University of Canterbury as a Research Associate. She is married to Pieter B. Pelser who is a Lecturer in Plant Systematics and curator of herbarium at the same university. She has contributed a lot of research on the Philippine members of the genus Rafflesia. She has also worked on a website dedicated to the famous Philippine botanist, Leonard Co. called Co’s Digital Flora of the Philippines. The pitcher plant species Nepenthes barcelonae was named after her.
In a paper written in 2002, Barcelona writes about a new species of Rafflesia from Panay Island, Philippines. The Rafflesiacece is a genus within parasitic plants that are mostly known to be fount in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and other Southeast Asian countries. Barcelona was able to describe this new species of Rafflesia found in the Panay Islands and called it the Rafflesia speciosa. Barcelona has continued to contribute new information on Rafflesia and other plants in the Philippines.
Reference
“Co’s Digital Flora of the Philippines.” Co’s Digital Flora of the Philippines, https://www.philippineplants.org/.
“Julie F. Barcelona.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 21 Feb. 2022, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_F._Barcelona.
Barcelona, Julie F., and Edwino S. Fernando. “A New Species of Rafflesia (Rafflesiaceae) from Panay Island, Philippines.” Kew Bulletin, vol. 57, no. 3, 2002, p. 647., https://doi.org/10.2307/4110994.
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