Craig Peter
Associate Professor
Botany
Rhodes University
South Africa
Biography
"Craig is interested in a broad range of ecological and evolutionary questions associated with plant pollination biology. His primary interest in the interactions between orchids and their pollinators. He is also interested in floral mimicry and deception in non-rewarding orchids, as well as the floral and reproductive biology of the Asclepiadoideae. Craig teaches courses on plant reproduction, pollination biology, introductory and advanced evolutionary biology, pollination services and the evolution of deception."
Research Interest
Craig is interested in a broad range of ecological and evolutionary questions associated with plant pollination biology. His PhD. research examines the pollinator driven radiation in the orchid genus Eulophia. He is also interested in floral mimicry and deception in non-rewarding orchids, as well as the floral and reproductive biology of the Asclepiadoideae.
Publications
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Ollerton J, Alarcon R, Waser NM, Price MV, Watts S, Cranmer L, Hingston A, Peter CI, Rotenberry J (2009). A global test of the pollination syndrome hypothesis. Annals of Botany 103(9): 1471-1480.
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Peter CI and Johnson SD (2009) Reproductive biology of Acrolophia cochlearis (Orchidaceae): Estimating rates of cross-pollination in epidendroid orchids. Annals of Botany. 104(3):573-581
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Peter CI and Johnson SD (2014). A pollinator shift explains floral divergence in an orchid species complex in South Africa. Annals of Botany (pollinator driven speciation special issue) 113(2):277-288.
