Barbara Ann Whitlock

Barbara Ann Whitlock (born 1967)^[1] is an American botanist. She earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University, with her dissertation Systematics and evolution of chocolate and its relatives (Sterculiaceae or Malvaceae s.l.) c. 2000,^[2] an interest which continues.^[3]

Barbara Ann Whitlock
Born	1967 (age 57–58)
Alma mater	Harvard University University of Wisconsin–Madison University of Missouri
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Miami (2003–present) Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden (2003)
Thesis	Systematics and evolution of chocolate and its relatives (Sterculiaceae or Malvaceae s.l.)  (c. 2000)
Author abbrev. (botany)	Whitlock

She has been working in the Department of Biology, University of Miami from at least 2015,^[3] where she works on tropical (plant) biology, and ecology and evolutionary biology.^[4][5]

Much of her work centres on Malvaceae and related phylogeny.^[6][7][8][9]

She has published 39 names,^[1] including Androcalva fraseri, and Commersonia borealis. (See also Taxa named by Barbara Ann Whitlock.)

The standard author abbreviation Whitlock is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]