Yvonne Chuan Fang Su is a Hong Kong evolutionary biologist who is notable for her co-discovery of

Pseuduvaria bruneiensis ''Pseuduvaria bruneiensis '' is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is endemic to Borneo. Yvonne Chuan Fang Su and Richard M.K. Saunders, the botanists who first formally described the species, named it after Brunei where the specim ...

and Pseuduvaria borneensis. Her doctoral work at the

University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong (HKU) (Chinese: 香港大學) is a public research university in Hong Kong. Founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, it is the oldest tertiary institution in Hong Kong. HKU was also the fi ...

focused on the

phylogeny A phylogenetic tree (also phylogeny or evolutionary tree Felsenstein J. (2004). ''Inferring Phylogenies'' Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA.) is a branching diagram or a tree showing the evolutionary relationships among various biological spec ...

of the flowering plant genus ''

Pseuduvaria ''Pseuduvaria'' is a genus of the plant family Annonaceae and tribe Miliuseae: with a native range is Tropical Asia. Species ''Pseuduvaria'' contains the following species: * '' Pseuduvaria acerosa'' Y.C.F.Su & R.M.K.Saunders * '' Pseuduvaria ...

''. Her work as a faculty member at Duke–NUS Medical School focuses on the evolution of viruses.

Legacy

She is an authority for the following taxa: *''

'' *'' Pseuduvaria borneensis'' *'' Pseuduvaria clemensiae'' *'' Pseuduvaria coriacea'' *'' Pseuduvaria cymosa'' *'' Pseuduvaria fragrans'' *''

Pseuduvaria glabrescens ''Pseuduvaria glabrescens'' is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Australia. L.W. Jessup, the botanist who first formally described the species using the synonym ''Pseuduvaria mulgraveana'' var. ''glabrescens'', named i ...

'' *'' Pseuduvaria glossopetala'' *''

Pseuduvaria kingiana ''Pseuduvaria kingiana'' is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to the Malay Peninsula. Yvonne Chuan Fang Su and Richard Saunders, the botanists who first formally described the species, named it after Sir George King, the ...

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Pseuduvaria luzonensis ''Pseuduvaria luzonensis'' is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to The Philippines. Elmer Drew Merrill, the American botanist who first formally described the species using the synonym ''Orophea luzoniensis'', named it af ...

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Pseuduvaria macrocarpa ''Pseuduvaria macrocarpa'' is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to The Maluku Islands and New Guinea. William Burck, the Dutch botanist who first formally described the species using the synonym ''Meiogyne macrocarpa'', n ...

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Pseuduvaria megalopus ''Pseuduvaria megalopus'' is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to New Guinea. Karl Schumann, the German botanist who first formally described the species using the synonym ''Petalolophus megalopus'', named it after the l ...

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Pseuduvaria mindorensis ''Pseuduvaria mindorensis'' is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to the Philippines. Yvonne Su and Richard Saunders, the botanists who first formally described the species, named it after the island of Mindoro where the ...

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Pseuduvaria obliqua ''Pseuduvaria obliqua'' is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Borneo. Yvonne Su and Richard Saunders, the botanists who first formally described the species, named it after its slightly uneven (, in Latin) leaf bases ...

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