Dr. Erika Maass

• PhD (Plant Physiology), University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

• MSc (Plant Physiology) cum laude, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

• BSc Honns (Plant Physiology) cum laude, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

• BSc (Botany & Zoology) cum laude, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Senior Lecturer

Main Campus, Mandume Ndemufayo Avenue, Windhoek
New Science Building, Room W261

Tel:   +264 61 206 3742
Fax:  +264 61 206 3478

emaass@unam.na

Dr. Erika Maass is a Namibian with more than twenty years of experience at the University of Namibia. Besides her teaching and research responsibilities in the Department of Biological Sciences, she is also the Director of the Teaching and Learning Improvement Centre. Dr. Maass has adjunct research faculty status at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA with whom she has a  long-standing collaborative research programme on the biology of the holoparasitic genus Hydnora.

• MBL3751  Plant Physiology
• MBL3332  Plant Growth & Development
• BLG7109   Biology 1A
• EBB6139   Form & Function

• Parasitic plants
• Pollination Biology
• The physiology of plants
• Plant growth and development

Articles:

2001 Maass, Erika E. & Lytton J. Musselman. “Parasitic Plant pummels Pavement – Hydnora abyssinica (HYDNORACEAE)” Economic Botany Vol. 55 No.1, 2001, pp. 7-8.

2004 Maass, Erika & Lytton J. Musselman. “Hydnora triceps (Hydnoraceae) – First record in Namibia and first description of fruits” Dinteria Vol. 29, 2004, pp. 1-10.

2007 Chimwamurombe, Percy. M., Erika Maass & Jacob Sheehama.   “Molecular Identification of a Fungus associated with the Holoparasitic Angiosperm Hydnora abyssinica in Namibia.” Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology Vol. 1 No.2, 2007, pp 153-156.

2007 Tennakoon, Kushan U., Jay F. Bolin, Lytton J. Musselman & Erika Maass. “Structural attributes of the hypogeous holoparasite Hydnora triceps Drege & Meyer (Hydnoraceae)”. American Journal of Botany Vol. 94 No. 9, 2007, pp. 1439-1449.

2009 Klaassen, E.S., E.G. Kwembeya & E. Maass. “A taxonomic revision of the genus Pentatrichia (Asteraceae).” South African Journal of Botany Vol. 75, 2009, pp 153-164.

 2009 Bolin, Jay F., Erika Maass, and Lytton J. Musselman. “Pollination Biology of Hydnora africana Thunb. (HYDNORACEAE) in Namibia: Brood-site mimicry with insect imprisonment. International Journal of Plant Science Vol. 170 No. 2, 2009, pp. 157-163

2009 Seymour, Roger S., Erika Maass, and Jay F. Bolin. “Floral thermogenesis of three species of Hydnora (Hydnoraceae) in Africa Annals of Botany Available online at www.aob.oxfordjournals.org

Conference Papers:
2001 Maass. E. “Spontaneous germination in Striga”. Proceedings of the 7th International Parasitic Weed Symposium, Eds. Fer, A., P. Thalouarn, D.M. Joel, L.J. Musselman, C. Parker & J.A.C. Verkleij., 5-8 June 2001, Nantes, France.

2004 Maass, Erika, Lytton J. Musselman & Sandra Boles. “Hydnora – The Ingenious Genus” Paper presented at the Botany 2004 Special Symposium: After the book – progress in parasitic plant research since Kuijt’s Biology of Parasitic Flowering Plants (1969). Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. 31 July – 5 August 2004. Abstract available at: http://www.parasiticplant.siuedu/Meetings/BotSoc2004.html

2005 Bolin, Jay, F., Erika Maass, Lytton J. Musselman & Kushan U. Tennakoon. “Floral Biology of three Namibian Hydnora (Hydnoraceae)” Poster presented at Botany 2005, Austin, Texas, USA
Abstract available at: http://www.2005.botanyconference.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=266

2006 Bolin, Jay, F., Kushaan U. Tennakoon, Lytton J. Musselman & Erika Maass. “Germination and seedling development of the highly modified root holoparasite Hydnora triceps.” Paper presented at Botany 2006, California State University, Chico, USA,  28 July – 2 August 2006. Abstract available at: http://www.2006.botanyconference.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=166

2006 Bolin, Jay, F., Lytton J. Musselman & Erika Maass. “The generalist pollination syndrome of the root holoparasite Hydnora africana and a test of a selective insect trapping mechanism.” Paper presented at Botany 2006, California State University, Chico, USA,  28 July – 2 August 2006. Abstract available at: http://www.2006.botanyconference.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=167

2009 Maass, Erika,  Jay F Bolin & Roger S Seymour “Pollination Biology of the genus Hydnora (HYDNORACEAE)” Paper presented at the 10th World Congress on Parasitic Plants, 8-12 June 2009, Kusadasi, Turkey.

Membership of Professional Associations
International Parasitic Plant Society

Senate representative on UNAM Council