SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (1967 to date – most recent first):

• Schmid, R. 1972-date. Numerous articles and brief and extended reviews, and commentaries in Taxon.
• Schmid, Rudolf & Mena Schmid. 2012. Naturalization of Sequoiadendron giganteum (Cupressaceae) in montane southern California. Aliso 30(1): 19-32.
• Schmid, R. 2001. Agnes Arber, née Robertson (1879-1960): Fragments of her life, including her place in biology and in women's studies. Ann. Bot. 88:1105-1128. Dec. [Available at www.idealibrary.com/links/doi/10.1006/anbo.2001.1553/pdf; paper 1 of 7 in a symposium entitled "From Agnes Arber to new explanatory models for vascular plant development," held 6 Aug. at the XVI International Botanical Congress held Aug. 1-7, 1999 in St. Louis.]
• Schmid, R. 1999. Conifers of the Californian Floristic Province. Pp. 75-88 in A. Farjon & C. N. Page (comp.) and IUCN/SSC Conifer Specialist Group, Conifers: Status survey and conservation Action Plan. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN: The World Conservation Union.
• Schmid, R. 1997. Some desiderata to make floras and other types of works user (and reviewer) friendly. Taxon 46:179-194. [A comparative review of 24 floras.]
• Schmid, R. 1992. Diversity of plants and fungi. Edina, Minnesota: Burgess International Group, Inc. xii, 253 pp., 8.5x11" format.
• Schmid, R. 1991. The fascination with carnivorous plants in juvenile literature. Carnivorous Pl. Newslett. 19:32-40.
• Schmid, R. 1990. Botany books for young people: A retrospective look by a botanist at the 1980's and at the artistry of Carol Lerner and Anne Ophelia Todd Dowden. Appraisal: Science books for young people 23(2):1-18. [Updated from a 1990 article in Taxon 39:81-92.]
• Schmid, R. 1989. The debt of humour in science to Lewis Carroll. Pp. 5-8 in E. Garfield, Humor in science: The Lewis Carroll connection. Curr. Contents 1989(4):3-8. [Reprinted, with new appendix, from 1985 article in Jabberwocky: J. Lewis Carroll Soc. 14:53-59. Issued summer 1987. The 1989 Schmid-Garfield version reprinted 1991 as pp. 24-29 in E. Garfield, Creativity, delayed recognition, and other essays. Philadelphia: iSi Press (series: Essays of an information scientist, vol. 12, 1989).]
• Schmid, R. 1988. Reproductive versus extra-reproductive nectaries–historical perspective and terminological recommendations. Bot. Rev. 54:179-232.
• Schmid, R. 1986. Intercontinental and transcontinental mail transit times from Europe to Berkeley, 1892 to 1941. Arch. Nat. Hist. 13:141-154.
• Baas, P., R. Schmid & B. J. van Heuven. 1986. Wood anatomy of Pinus longaeva (bristlecone pine) and the sustained length-on-age increase of its tracheids. IAWA Bull., N.S., 7:221-228.
• Schmid, R. & P. Baas. 1984. The occurrence of scalariform perforation plants and helical vessel wall thickenings in wood of Myrtaceae. IAWA Bull., N.S., 5:197-215.
• Schmid, R. 1984. The terminology and classification of steles: historical perspective and the outlines of a system. Bot. Rev. 48:817-931. [Also: C. B. Beck, R. Schmid & G. W. Rothwell, Stelar morphology and the primary vascular system of seed plants. Bot. Rev. 48:691-815, 913-931.]
• Schmid, R., S. Carlquist, L. D. Hufford & G. L. Webster. 1984. Systematic anatomy of Oceanopapaver, a monotypic genus of the Capparaceae from New Caledonia. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 89:119-152.
• Schmid, R. 1984. Naturae novitates, 1879-1944: Its publication and intercontinental transit times mirror European history. Taxon 33:636-654. [Excerpt in Curr. Contents 1985(10):12.]
• Schmid, R. 1982. Fruit. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 5th ed., 5:740-746. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co. [Revised and substantially expanded from versions in previous editions (1960-77) by R. M. Brooks.]
• Ewers, F. W. & R. Schmid. 1981. Longevity of needle fascicles of Pinus longaeva (bristlecone pine) and other North American pines. Oecologia (Berlin) 51:107-115.
• Schmid, R. 1977. Ridding botany of its sexist terminology. Taxon 26:441-442. [Excerpt in Curr. Contents 1978(19):13; translated into German by Roswitha Schmid as: Sexismus in der Botanik. Naturwiss. Rundschau. 38:389-390 (1985).]
• Schmid, R. 1976. Septal pores in Prototaxites, an enigmatic Devonian plant. Science 191:287-288.
• Schmid, R. 1972. Floral bundle fusion and vascular conservatism. Taxon 21:429-446.
• Schmid, R. 1972. A resolution of the Eugenia-Syzygium controversy (Myrtaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 59:423-436.
• Schmid, R. 1967. Electron microscopy of wood of Callixylon and Cordaites.Amer. J. Bot. 54:720-729.

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