Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

First-Author

O’Donnell RP, Linde CC, May TW (2025) Rise up, Rhizoctonia: moving to one fungus, one name in the Ceratobasidiaceae (Agaricomycetes; Cantharellales). Persoonia 54, 285–325. doi:10.3114/persoonia.2025.54.09.

O’Donnell RP, Wong DJ, Peakall R, Phillips RD, Linde CC (2024) Discordance Down Under: Combining phylogenomics & fungal symbioses to detangle difficult nodes in a diverse tribe of Australian terrestrial orchids. Systematic Biology 74, 3:434–452. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syae070.

O’Donnell RP, Bruhl JJ, Telford IR, Wilson TC, Zimmer H, Taseski GM, Andrew RL (2023) Molecular and morphological analyses support recognition of Prostanthera volucris (Lamiaceae), a new species from the Central Tablelands of New South Wales. Australian Systematic Botany 36, 1:1–20. doi:10.1071/SB22017.

O’Donnell RP, Wilson TC, Andrew RL, Telford IR, Taseski GM, Zimmer H, Bruhl JJ (2021) Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Prostanthera phylicifolia (Lamiaceae) assemblage resolves relationships of the ’Critically Endangered’ P. gilesii and other putative new species. Telopea 24, 359–375. doi:10.7751/telopea15561.

Co-Author

Hyde KD … Zvyagina E (2024) The 2024 Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa. Mycosphere 15, 1:5146–6239. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/15/1/25.

Hyde KD … Zucconi L (2023) Global consortium for the classification of fungi and fungus-like taxa. Mycosphere 14, 1:1960–2012. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/14/1/23.

Manuscripts In Review

First-Author

O’Donnell RP, Phillips RD, Peakall R, Linde CC (in review - Annals of Botany) It’s not easy being green: Population genomics and species boundaries in sexually deceptive greenhood orchids (Pterostylis; Cranichideae)

John EG^†, O’Donnell RP^†, Perkins J, Rubial M, Peakall R, Wong DCJ (in review - Molecular Biology and Evolution) Once in a blue moon: phylotranscriptomics reveals the unusual genetic basis of blue floral colour in the terrestrial orchid subtribe Caladeniinae (Diurideae; Orchidaceae).

^†Shared co-first authors.

Co-author

Hosna ACN, May TW, O’Donnell RP, Dearnaley JDW, Linde CC (in review - Mycologia) New species of Serendipita associated with Australian terrestrial orchids in the Diurideae.

Preprints

O’Donnell RP, Bruhl JJ, Telford IR, Wilson TC, Zimmer H, Taseski GM, Andrew RL (accepted 2023) Molecular and morphological analyses support recognition of Prostanthera volucris (Lamiaceae), a new species from the Central Tablelands of New South Wales. doi:doi.org/10.1101/2021.12.21.473648.

Other Publications

O’Donnell RP (2024) An integrative taxonomic study of the Pterostylis macrosepala (D.L.Jones) G.N.Backh. complex (Orchidaceae; Pterostylidinae) Hansjörg Eichler Scientific Research Fund Report. Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter. 199: 5–11.

O’Donnell RP (2022) Book Review: Presenting Science Concisely - Bruce Kirchoff. Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter. 190: 27–28.

O’Donnell RP (2022) Love Thy Neighbour Science Write Now #6: Natural History and Historians

O’Donnell RP (2021) Love Thy Neighbour Boundless Writers Festival 2021

O’Donnell RP (2021) Selling systematics with storytelling: solving taxonomy’s marketing problem. Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter. 188: 29–30.