Anton 'Tony' Albert Reznicek (born 1950) is a botanist known best for his work on the sedge genus '' Carex'' and co-authorship of the ''Field Manual of Michigan Flora''. He is currently curator emeritus at the

University of Michigan Herbarium The University of Michigan Herbarium is the herbarium of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the United States. One of the most-extensive botanical collections in the world, the herbarium has some 1.7 million specimens of vascu ...

Education

Reznicek's higher education began at the University of Guelph, where he received his bachelor's with honors in 1971. He completed his master's at the University of Toronto, where he completed his thesis ''The Taxonomy of Carex Series Lupulinae in Canada'' in 1973. Moving forward, he completed his Ph.D., also at the University of Toronto, where he wrote ''The Taxonomy of the Stellulatae group of Carex in North America''. While at the University of Toronto, Reznicek met his wife Susan, a botanist herself who was studying arctic ecology.

Scholarship

Reznicek has worked broadly in the field of botany, but is best known for his work on sedges, specifically the genus ''Carex''. His work looks broadly at the systematics and evolution within this genus. While his work in more recent years has been centered in the Great Lakes region, Reznicek has done extensive work in Latin America. In addition to his work with sedges, Reznicek is known for co-authoring the ''Field Manual of Michigan Flora'', a comprehensive work completed in collaboration with

Edward Groesbeck Voss Edward Groesbeck "Ed" Voss (February 22, 1929 – February 13, 2012) was an American botanist and expert on taxonomic nomenclature. Voss was born in Delaware, Ohio, received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 1954 and spen ...

which enables users to identify several thousand plants known to Michigan. In addition to the print version, Reznicek has developed and maintained an online version of Michigan Flora.

Honors

In 2006, a new species of sedge was named in Reznicek's honor: ''

Carex reznicekii ''Carex reznicekii'', known as Reznicek's sedge, is a species of '' Carex'' native to North America. It is a perennial. Described initially from a New York population, this species was named in 2006 in honor of the botanist Anton Reznicek, a spe ...

'' (Reznicek's sedge).

References

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