Research Scientist, Emeriti
rabeler@umich.eduOffice Information:
Research Museums Center
3600 Varsity Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48108-2228
Education/Degree:
Ph.D. Michigan State UniversityM.S. Michigan State University
B.A. Hartwick College
About
Research
I specialize in the Caryophyllaceae. One of my major interests involves documenting occurrences of introduced members of this family, especially in the Great Lakes region and the southeastern United States. These plants are often much more widely distributed than suggested by floristic manuals. I am also interested in nomenclature and relationships of the genera and subfamilies that are included in the Caryophyllaceae.
I am Past-President of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections.
Select publications
Feng, K., J. F. Walker, H. E. Marx, Y. Yang, S. F. Brockington, M. J. Moore, R. K. Rabeler, & S. A. Smith. 2024. The link between ancient whole‐genome duplications and cold adaptations in the Caryophyllaceae. Amer. J. Bot. e16350. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16350.
Zuntini, A.R., T. Carruthers, O. Maurin, et al. 2024. Phylogenomics and the rise of the angiosperms. Nature 629: 843–850. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07324-0
Hardisty, A, E. R. Ellwood, G. Nelson, B. Zimkus, J. Buschbom, W. Addink, R. K. Rabeler, J. Bates. A. Bentley, J. A. B. Fortes, S. Hansen, J. A. Macklin, A. Mast, J. T. Miller, A. K. Monfils, D. L. Paul, E. Wallis, & M. Webster. 2022. Towards a common understanding of extending digital specimen records on the Internet. Bioscience 72 (10): 978–987. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biac060
Arabi, Z., F. Ghahremaninejad, R.K. Rabeler, I. Sokolova, M. Weigend, S. Zarre. 2022. Intergeneric relationships within the tribe Alsineae (Caryophyllaceae) as inferred from nrDNA ITS and cpDNA rps16 sequences: A step toward a phylogenetically based generic system. Taxon 71: 608-629.
Rabeler, R. K., & K. N. Gandhi. 2021. A new combination in North American Silene (Caryophyllaceae). Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 15(1): 57-58.
Rabeler, R. K., & R. L. Hartman. 2020. Caryophyllaceae. In: S. C. Meyers, T. Jaster, K. E. Mitchell, T. Harvey and L. K. Hardison, eds. Flora of Oregon 2: 540-581.
Shorthouse, D. P., J. A. Macklin, R. K. Rabeler, and J. Pender. 2020. Digitization of US Herbaria by 2020 – how close did we come? TDWG 2020. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 4: e59166. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.4.59166
Pirani, A., A. Kovalchuk, R. K. Rabeler, H. Moazzeni, A. Pavlenko, B. Oxelman, & S. Zarre. 2020. Phylogeny of Acanthophyllum s.l. revisited: an update on generic concept and sectional classification. Taxon 69: 500-514.
Jafari, F., S. Zarre, A. Gholipour, F. Eggens, R. K. Rabeler & B. Oxelman. 2020. A preliminary infrageneric classification of the species-rich genus Silene (Caryophyllaceae): molecular phylogeny and morphology revisited. Taxon 69: 337-368.
Rabeler, R. K., H. T. Svoboda, B. Thiers, L. A. Prather, J. Macklin, L. Lagomarsino, L. C. Majure, & C. Ferguson. 2019. Herbarium practice and ethics, III. Systematic Botany 44: 7-13.
Madhani, H., R. [K.] Rabeler, A. Pirani, B. Oxelman, G. Heubl, & S. Zarre. 2018. Untangling taxonomic confusion in the carnation tribe (Caryophyllaceae: Caryophylleae) with special focus on generic boundaries. Taxon 63: 83-112.
Arabi, Z., F. Ghahremaninejad, R. K. Rabeler, G. Heubl, & S. Zarre. 2017. Seed micromorphology and its systematic significance in tribe Alsineae (Caryophyllaceae). Flora 234: 41-59.
Rabeler, R. K., & W. L. Wagner. 2016. New combinations in Odontostemma (Caryophyllaceae). Phytokeys 63: 77-97.
Hernández-Ledesma, P., W. G. Berendsohn, T. Borsch, S. von Mering, H. Akhani, S. Arias, I. Castañeda-Noa, U. Eggli, R. Eriksson, H. Flores Olvera, S. Fuentes-Bazán, G. Kadereit, C. Klak, N. Korotkova, R. Nyffeler, G. Ocampo, H. Ochoterena Booth, B. Oxelman, R. K. Rabeler, A. Sánchez, B. O. Schlumpberger, & P. Uotila. 2015. A taxonomic backbone for the global synthesis of species diversity in the angiosperm order Caryophyllales. Willdenowia 45: 281-383.
Nelson, G., P. Sweeney, L. E. Wallace, R. K. Rabeler, D. Allard, H. Brown, J. R. Carter, M. W. Denslow, E. R. Ellwood, C. C. Germain-Autrey, E. Gilbert, E. Gillespie, L. R. Goertzen, B. Legler, D. B. Marchant, T. D. Marsico, A. B. Morris, Z. Murrell, M. Nazaire, C. Neefus, S. Oberreiter, D. Paul, B. R. Ruhfel, T. Sasek, J. Shaw, P. S. Soltis, K. Watson, A. Weeks, & A. R. Mast. 2015. Digitization workflows for flat sheets and packets of plants, algae, and fungi. Applications in Plant Sciences 3 (9): 1500065. 9 p.
Sadeghian S., S. Zarre, R. K. Rabeler, & G. Heubl. 2015. Molecular phylogeny of Arenaria (Caryophyllaceae: tribe Arenarieae) and its allies inferred from nuclear DNA ITS and plastid DNA rps16 sequences. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 178: 648-669.
Hartman, R. L., & R. K. Rabeler. 2012. Caryophyllaceae. P. 602-628. In: Jepson Manual II: Vascular Plants of California. University of California Press, Berkeley.
Harbaugh, D. T., M. Nepokroeff, Rabeler, R. K., J. McNeill, E. A. Zimmer, & W. L. Wagner. 2010. A new lineage-based tribal classification of the family Caryophyllaceae. Intl. J. Pl. Sci. 171: 185-198.
Rabeler, R. K., and R .L. Hartman. 2008. Caryophyllaceae in North America: change over the last 110 years. J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 2: 1285-1289.
Rabeler, R. K., and R. L. Hartman. 2008. ["2007"]. Eremogone cliftonii (Caryophyllaceae), a new species from California. Madrono 55: 329-333.
Rabeler, R. K. 2007. Gleason's Plants of Michigan, rev. ed., 398 p. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. [Link]
Rabeler, R. K., and R. L. Hartman. 2006. Caryophyllaceae. In Steyermark’s Flora of Missouri, ed. George Yatskievych, 2: 794-849. St. Louis: Missouri Botanical Garden Press.[Link]
Rabeler, R. K., and J. A. Macklin. 2006. Herbarium networks: towards creating a ‘toolkit’ to advance specimen data capture. Collection Forum 21: 223-231.
Rabeler, R. K., and R. L. Hartman, eds. 2005. 43. Caryophyllaceae. In Flora of North America North of Mexico, ed. Flora of North America Editorial Committee, vol. 5: 3-215. [Link]
Rabeler, R. K. 2004. Caryophyllaceae (Pink Family). In The Flowering Plants of the Neotropics, ed, N. Smith, S. A. Mori, A. Henderson, D. W. Stevenson, and S. V. Heald, 88-90. Princeton: Princeton University Press. [Link]
Cusick, A. W., R. K. Rabeler, and M. J. Oldham. 2003 ["2002"]. Hard or Fairgrounds Grass (Sclerochloa dura, Poaceae) in the Great Lakes Region. Michigan Bot. 41: 125-135.
Rabeler, R. K., and R. L. Hartman. 2002. Pseudostellaria sierrae (Caryophyllaceae), a new species from California. Novon 12: 82-86.
Shilong, C., and R. K. Rabeler. 2001. 10. Stellaria. In Zhengyi, W., P. H. Raven, and H. Deyuan, editors. Flora of China 6: 11-29.
Oxelman, B., M. Líden, R. K. Rabeler, and M. Popp. 2001 ["2000"]. A revised generic classification of the tribe Sileneae (Caryophyllaceae). Nordic J. Bot. 20: 743-748.
Rabeler, R. K. 1999. The installation of compactors in herbaria: factors to consider. In Managing the Modern Herbarium, An Interdisciplinary Approach, ed. D. A. Metsger and S. A. Byers, p. 147-164. Washington, DC.: Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections. [Link]
Rabeler, R. K. and A. W. Cusick. 1995 ["1994"]. Comments on the introduced Caryophyllaceae of Ohio and nearby states. Michigan Bot. 33: 87-100.
Rabeler, R. K. and V. Bittrich. 1993. Suprageneric nomenclature in the Caryophyllaceae. Taxon 42: 857-863.
Rabeler, R. K. 1993. Nomenclature corrections in the Caryophyllaceae. Contr. Univ. Mich. Herb. 19: 149-164.
Rabeler, R. K. 1993. The occurrence of Anther Smut, Ustilago violacea s.l., on Stellaria borealis(Caryophyllaceae) in North America. Contr. Univ. Mich. Herb. 19: 165-169.
Rabeler, R. K. 1992. (1034) Proposal to conserve 2490 Silene L. against Lychnis L. (Caryophyllaceae). Taxon 41: 126-128.
Morton, J. K., and R. K. Rabeler. 1989. Biosystematic studies on the Stellaria calycantha(Caryophyllaceae) complex. I: Cytology and cytogeography. Canad. J. Bot. 67: 121-127.
Rabeler, R. K., and J. W. Thieret. 1988. Comments on the Caryophyllaceae of the Southeastern United States. Sida 13: 149-156.
Rabeler, R. K. 1985. Petrorhagia (Caryophyllaceae) in North America. Sida 11: 6-44.
About
Research
I specialize in the Caryophyllaceae. One of my major interests involves documenting occurrences of introduced members of this family, especially in the Great Lakes region and the southeastern United States. These plants are often much more widely distributed than suggested by floristic manuals. I am also interested in nomenclature and relationships of the genera and subfamilies that are included in the Caryophyllaceae.
I am Past-President of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections.
Select publications
Feng, K., J. F. Walker, H. E. Marx, Y. Yang, S. F. Brockington, M. J. Moore, R. K. Rabeler, & S. A. Smith. 2024. The link between ancient whole‐genome duplications and cold adaptations in the Caryophyllaceae. Amer. J. Bot. e16350. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16350.
Zuntini, A.R., T. Carruthers, O. Maurin, et al. 2024. Phylogenomics and the rise of the angiosperms. Nature 629: 843–850. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07324-0
Hardisty, A, E. R. Ellwood, G. Nelson, B. Zimkus, J. Buschbom, W. Addink, R. K. Rabeler, J. Bates. A. Bentley, J. A. B. Fortes, S. Hansen, J. A. Macklin, A. Mast, J. T. Miller, A. K. Monfils, D. L. Paul, E. Wallis, & M. Webster. 2022. Towards a common understanding of extending digital specimen records on the Internet. Bioscience 72 (10): 978–987. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biac060
Arabi, Z., F. Ghahremaninejad, R.K. Rabeler, I. Sokolova, M. Weigend, S. Zarre. 2022. Intergeneric relationships within the tribe Alsineae (Caryophyllaceae) as inferred from nrDNA ITS and cpDNA rps16 sequences: A step toward a phylogenetically based generic system. Taxon 71: 608-629.
Rabeler, R. K., & K. N. Gandhi. 2021. A new combination in North American Silene (Caryophyllaceae). Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 15(1): 57-58.
Rabeler, R. K., & R. L. Hartman. 2020. Caryophyllaceae. In: S. C. Meyers, T. Jaster, K. E. Mitchell, T. Harvey and L. K. Hardison, eds. Flora of Oregon 2: 540-581.
Shorthouse, D. P., J. A. Macklin, R. K. Rabeler, and J. Pender. 2020. Digitization of US Herbaria by 2020 – how close did we come? TDWG 2020. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 4: e59166. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.4.59166
Pirani, A., A. Kovalchuk, R. K. Rabeler, H. Moazzeni, A. Pavlenko, B. Oxelman, & S. Zarre. 2020. Phylogeny of Acanthophyllum s.l. revisited: an update on generic concept and sectional classification. Taxon 69: 500-514.
Jafari, F., S. Zarre, A. Gholipour, F. Eggens, R. K. Rabeler & B. Oxelman. 2020. A preliminary infrageneric classification of the species-rich genus Silene (Caryophyllaceae): molecular phylogeny and morphology revisited. Taxon 69: 337-368.
Rabeler, R. K., H. T. Svoboda, B. Thiers, L. A. Prather, J. Macklin, L. Lagomarsino, L. C. Majure, & C. Ferguson. 2019. Herbarium practice and ethics, III. Systematic Botany 44: 7-13.
Madhani, H., R. [K.] Rabeler, A. Pirani, B. Oxelman, G. Heubl, & S. Zarre. 2018. Untangling taxonomic confusion in the carnation tribe (Caryophyllaceae: Caryophylleae) with special focus on generic boundaries. Taxon 63: 83-112.
Arabi, Z., F. Ghahremaninejad, R. K. Rabeler, G. Heubl, & S. Zarre. 2017. Seed micromorphology and its systematic significance in tribe Alsineae (Caryophyllaceae). Flora 234: 41-59.
Rabeler, R. K., & W. L. Wagner. 2016. New combinations in Odontostemma (Caryophyllaceae). Phytokeys 63: 77-97.
Hernández-Ledesma, P., W. G. Berendsohn, T. Borsch, S. von Mering, H. Akhani, S. Arias, I. Castañeda-Noa, U. Eggli, R. Eriksson, H. Flores Olvera, S. Fuentes-Bazán, G. Kadereit, C. Klak, N. Korotkova, R. Nyffeler, G. Ocampo, H. Ochoterena Booth, B. Oxelman, R. K. Rabeler, A. Sánchez, B. O. Schlumpberger, & P. Uotila. 2015. A taxonomic backbone for the global synthesis of species diversity in the angiosperm order Caryophyllales. Willdenowia 45: 281-383.
Nelson, G., P. Sweeney, L. E. Wallace, R. K. Rabeler, D. Allard, H. Brown, J. R. Carter, M. W. Denslow, E. R. Ellwood, C. C. Germain-Autrey, E. Gilbert, E. Gillespie, L. R. Goertzen, B. Legler, D. B. Marchant, T. D. Marsico, A. B. Morris, Z. Murrell, M. Nazaire, C. Neefus, S. Oberreiter, D. Paul, B. R. Ruhfel, T. Sasek, J. Shaw, P. S. Soltis, K. Watson, A. Weeks, & A. R. Mast. 2015. Digitization workflows for flat sheets and packets of plants, algae, and fungi. Applications in Plant Sciences 3 (9): 1500065. 9 p.
Sadeghian S., S. Zarre, R. K. Rabeler, & G. Heubl. 2015. Molecular phylogeny of Arenaria (Caryophyllaceae: tribe Arenarieae) and its allies inferred from nuclear DNA ITS and plastid DNA rps16 sequences. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 178: 648-669.
Hartman, R. L., & R. K. Rabeler. 2012. Caryophyllaceae. P. 602-628. In: Jepson Manual II: Vascular Plants of California. University of California Press, Berkeley.
Harbaugh, D. T., M. Nepokroeff, Rabeler, R. K., J. McNeill, E. A. Zimmer, & W. L. Wagner. 2010. A new lineage-based tribal classification of the family Caryophyllaceae. Intl. J. Pl. Sci. 171: 185-198.
Rabeler, R. K., and R .L. Hartman. 2008. Caryophyllaceae in North America: change over the last 110 years. J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 2: 1285-1289.
Rabeler, R. K., and R. L. Hartman. 2008. ["2007"]. Eremogone cliftonii (Caryophyllaceae), a new species from California. Madrono 55: 329-333.
Rabeler, R. K. 2007. Gleason's Plants of Michigan, rev. ed., 398 p. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. [Link]
Rabeler, R. K., and R. L. Hartman. 2006. Caryophyllaceae. In Steyermark’s Flora of Missouri, ed. George Yatskievych, 2: 794-849. St. Louis: Missouri Botanical Garden Press.[Link]
Rabeler, R. K., and J. A. Macklin. 2006. Herbarium networks: towards creating a ‘toolkit’ to advance specimen data capture. Collection Forum 21: 223-231.
Rabeler, R. K., and R. L. Hartman, eds. 2005. 43. Caryophyllaceae. In Flora of North America North of Mexico, ed. Flora of North America Editorial Committee, vol. 5: 3-215. [Link]
Rabeler, R. K. 2004. Caryophyllaceae (Pink Family). In The Flowering Plants of the Neotropics, ed, N. Smith, S. A. Mori, A. Henderson, D. W. Stevenson, and S. V. Heald, 88-90. Princeton: Princeton University Press. [Link]
Cusick, A. W., R. K. Rabeler, and M. J. Oldham. 2003 ["2002"]. Hard or Fairgrounds Grass (Sclerochloa dura, Poaceae) in the Great Lakes Region. Michigan Bot. 41: 125-135.
Rabeler, R. K., and R. L. Hartman. 2002. Pseudostellaria sierrae (Caryophyllaceae), a new species from California. Novon 12: 82-86.
Shilong, C., and R. K. Rabeler. 2001. 10. Stellaria. In Zhengyi, W., P. H. Raven, and H. Deyuan, editors. Flora of China 6: 11-29.
Oxelman, B., M. Líden, R. K. Rabeler, and M. Popp. 2001 ["2000"]. A revised generic classification of the tribe Sileneae (Caryophyllaceae). Nordic J. Bot. 20: 743-748.
Rabeler, R. K. 1999. The installation of compactors in herbaria: factors to consider. In Managing the Modern Herbarium, An Interdisciplinary Approach, ed. D. A. Metsger and S. A. Byers, p. 147-164. Washington, DC.: Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections. [Link]
Rabeler, R. K. and A. W. Cusick. 1995 ["1994"]. Comments on the introduced Caryophyllaceae of Ohio and nearby states. Michigan Bot. 33: 87-100.
Rabeler, R. K. and V. Bittrich. 1993. Suprageneric nomenclature in the Caryophyllaceae. Taxon 42: 857-863.
Rabeler, R. K. 1993. Nomenclature corrections in the Caryophyllaceae. Contr. Univ. Mich. Herb. 19: 149-164.
Rabeler, R. K. 1993. The occurrence of Anther Smut, Ustilago violacea s.l., on Stellaria borealis(Caryophyllaceae) in North America. Contr. Univ. Mich. Herb. 19: 165-169.
Rabeler, R. K. 1992. (1034) Proposal to conserve 2490 Silene L. against Lychnis L. (Caryophyllaceae). Taxon 41: 126-128.
Morton, J. K., and R. K. Rabeler. 1989. Biosystematic studies on the Stellaria calycantha(Caryophyllaceae) complex. I: Cytology and cytogeography. Canad. J. Bot. 67: 121-127.
Rabeler, R. K., and J. W. Thieret. 1988. Comments on the Caryophyllaceae of the Southeastern United States. Sida 13: 149-156.
Rabeler, R. K. 1985. Petrorhagia (Caryophyllaceae) in North America. Sida 11: 6-44.
