• PBIO 211 (Diversity of Life)
• PBIO 248 (Trees and Shrubs)
• PBIO 309/509 (Plant Systematics and Ohio Flora)

• Associate Chair
• Director of the Bartley Herbarium

My primary interests are angiosperm systematics (with emphasis on the phylogeny and taxonomy of Lamiaceae) and phylogenetic nomenclature, an alternative to traditional biological nomenclature that is designed to name the parts of the tree of life by explicit reference to phylogeny. Students in my lab have worked on taxonomic treatments of various angiosperm groups, phylogenetic analyses of intergeneric relationships in the Lamiaceae, and floristic studies of local natural areas.

• Cantino, P.D., J. A. Doyle, S.W. Graham, W.S. Judd, R.G. Olmstead, D.E. Soltis, P.S. Soltis and M.J. Donoghue.  2007.  Towards a phylogenetic nomenclature of Tracheophyta.  Taxon 56:822-846.
   
• Cantino, P.D. and K. de Queiroz. 2007. International Code of Phylogenetic Nomenclature. Version 4. http://www.ohiou.edu/phylocode/
   
  
• Harrelson, S.M. and P.D. Cantino. 2006. The terrestrial vascular flora of Strouds Run State Park, Athens County, Ohio. Rhodora 108:142-183.
   
• Peirson, J.A., P.D. Cantino, and H.E. Ballard, Jr. 2006. A taxonomic revision of Collinsonia (Lamiaceae) based on phenetic analyses of morphological variation. Systematic Botany 31:398-409. 
   
• Cantino, P.D. 2004. Phrymaceae. Pp. 323-326 in J.W. Kadereit (ed.), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, Vol. 7. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.
   
• Harley, R.M., S. Atkins, A. Budantsev, P.D. Cantino, B. Conn, R. Grayer, M.M. Harley, R. de Kok, T. Krestovskaja, R. Morales, A.J. Paton, O. Ryding and T. Upson. 2004. Labiatae. Pp. 167-275 in J.W. Kadereit (ed.), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, Vol. 7. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg. [Cantino contributed taxonomic treatments of 50 genera.]
   
• Martin, E. and P.D. Cantino. 2004. A floristic survey of the forested parts of the United Plant Savers ethnobotanical sanctuary, Meigs County, Ohio. Rhodora 106:148-166.
   
• Cantino, P.D. 2004. Classifying species versus naming clades. Taxon 53:795-798.
   
• De Queiroz, K. and P.D. Cantino. 2001. Phylogenetic nomenclature and the PhyloCode. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 58: 254-271.
   
• Cantino P.D., H.N. Bryant, K. de Queiroz, M.J. Donoghue, T. Eriksson, D.M. Hillis, and M.S.Y. Lee. 1999. Species names in phylogenetic nomenclature. Systematic Biology 48:790-807.
   
• Cantino, P.D. 1999. A new species of Monochilus (Lamiaceae) from Brazil. Novon 9:323-324.
   
• Cantino, P.D., S.J. Wagstaff, and R.G. Olmstead. 1999. Caryopteris (Lamiaceae) and the conflict between phylogenetic and pragmatic considerations in botanical nomenclature. Systematic Botany 23:369-386.
   
• Cantino, P.D. 1998. Binomials, hyphenated uninomials, and phylogenetic nomenclature. Taxon 47:425-429.
   
• Cantino, P.D. 1998. Obtegomeria (Lamiaceae), a new genus from South America. Novon 8:1-3.
   
• Cantino, P.D., R.G. Olmstead, and S.J. Wagstaff. 1997. A comparison of phylogenetic nomenclature with the current system: a botanical case study. Systematic Biology 46:313-331.
   
• Abu-Asab, M.S. and P.D. Cantino. 1994. Systematic implications of pollen morphology in subfamilies Lamioideae and Pogostemonoideae (Labiatae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 81:653-686.
   
• Cantino, P.D. 1992. Evidence for a polyphyletic origin of the Labiatae. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 79: 361-379.
  

Faculty Research Focus Groups

• Phylogenetic Systematics

Current or Recent Student Research Projects

• Systematic revision of Gomphandra (Stemonuraceae)
• Flora of Salt Fork State Park, Guernsey County, Ohio
  
• Flora of Strouds Run State Park, Athens County, Ohio
• Systematic revision of Collinsonia (Labiatae)
• Phylogeny and character evolution in subfamily Nepetoideae (Labiatae)
• Systematics of Salvia section Ekmania (Labiatae)
• Flora of Dysart Woods, a remnant stand of primary forest in eastern Ohio