Education

• B.S. in Biology. Universidad Central de Venezuela. 1987
• M.S. University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA. 1991
• Ph.D. University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA.1996

Current research

• Systematics and Floristics

ONGOING RESEARCH

• Illustrated Flora of the Yucatan Peninsula.
• Neotropical Orchidaceae: Sistematics, phylogeny, biogeography and evolution of Encyclia (Laelinae: Orchidaceae).
• Neotropical Orchidaceae: Sistematics and Phylogeny of subtribe Catasetinae (Orchidaceae) with emphasis on Megamexican taxa.
• Neotropical Orchidaceae: Sistematics and phylogeny of Cryptocentum (Orchidaceae).
• Philogeography and conservation of selected taxa in xeromorphic forests with columnar Cactaceae in the northern half of the Yucatan Peninsula Biotic Province.
• Myrmecophila, Encyclia (pro-parte) and Notylia (Orchidaceae) for Flora Mesoamericana.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Tamayo-Cen, I, Carnevali, G., Ocupa Horna, L., Tapia-Muñoz, J.L. & Romero-González, G.A. 2020. Encyclia sclerocladia (Orchidaceae: Laelinae) revisited: A New Name, its Phylogenetic Position, and an Annotated Checklist of Peruvian Encyclia. Systematic Botany 45(1): 11-25. https://doi.org/10.1600/036364420X15801369352261.
• Cetzal-Ix, W.R., Carnevali, G., Jiménez-Machorro, R. & Pérez-García, E.A., 2020. Laelia × meavei: A new natural hybrid between L. dawsonii fo. dawsonii and L. rubescens fo. peduncularis (Orchidaceae: Laeliinae) from Oaxaca, Mexico. Phytotaxa 446 (2): 081–094. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.446.2.1.
• Carnevali, G., Cetzal-Ix, W., Tapia-Muñoz, J.L., Leopardi, C., Viccon-Esquivel, J., Can-Sulú, C.A., Ramírez-Morillo, I.M., Romero-González, G.A., 2018. A systematic revision of the Encyclia adenocarpos complex (Orchidaceae: Laelinae) from Megamexico, including two new species from Mexico. Plant Syst. Evol. 304:631–663. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-018-1496-1.
• Carnevali, G ., Pérez-García, E.A., Leopardi-Verde, C.L., Tapia-Muñoz, J.L. Cetzal-Ix, W.R., Ramírez-Morillo, I.M. & Romero-González, G.A. 2018. The Encyclia ambigua complex (Laeliinae, Orchidaceae), a synopsis and notes on Encyclia virens and Epidendrum alatum. Phytotaxa 372: 1-21. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.372.1.1
• Duno de Stefano, R., R., Ramírez Morillo, I.M., Tapia Muñoz, J.L., Hernández-Aguilar, S.M., Can Itzá, L.L., Cetzal Ix, W.R., Méndez-Jiménez, N., Zamora-Crescencio, P., Gutiérrez Báez, C., Carnevali Fernández-Concha, G., 2018. Aspectos generales de la Flora de la Península de Yucatán Mexicana. Botanical Sciences 96(3): 180–199. https://doi.org/10.17129/botsci.1868.

RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS

• 1997. Research Associate. Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium, Harvard University.
• 1997. Level I. Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. CONACyT
• 2009. Level II. Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. CONACyT
• 2017. Level III. Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. CONACyT
• 2021. Member. Academia Mexicana de las Ciencias.

RECOMMENDED WEB PAGES

• Technical summary – Systematics and Floristry : 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021. CICY Herbarium.
• http://go.to/orchid-specialist-group.
• Native Flora of the Yucatan Peninsula (Spanish).
• Endemic Flora of the Yucatán Peninsula (Spanish).