Paul Graham Wilson (born 1928) is an Australian botanist. He has been a most prolific contributor to the journal ''

Nuytsia ''Nuytsia floribunda'' is a hemiparasitic tree found in Western Australia. The species is known locally as moodjar and, more recently, the Christmas tree or Western Australian Christmas tree. The display of intensely bright flowers during the ...

'', contributing to the first issue in 1970 and to the 12th volume in 1998, which was dedicated to him for his contributions to plant taxonomy and to celebrate his 70th birthday. Since his retirement from the

Western Australian Herbarium The Western Australian Herbarium is the State Herbarium in Perth, Western Australia. It is part of the State government's Department of Parks and Wildlife, and has responsibility for the description and documentation of the flora of Western Austr ...

in 1993, he has helped to maintain a comprehensive census of the flora of Western Australia. Wilson has mostly published papers dealing with the plant families

Rutaceae The Rutaceae is a family, commonly known as the rueRUTACEAE
in BoDD – Botanical Derm ...

Asteraceae The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ...

and

Chenopodiaceae Amaranthaceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the amaranth family, in reference to its type genus ''Amaranthus''. It includes the former goosefoot family Chenopodiaceae and contains about 165 genera and 2,040 species, making it ...

Selected publications

* A taxonomic revision of the genera ''

Crowea ''Crowea'' is a genus of small evergreen shrubs in the family Rutaceae, sometimes known as waxflowers. There are three species and many subspecies and cultivars, all of which are popular as ornamentals because of their abundant, attractive flow ...

'', ''

Eriostemon ''Eriostemon'' is a genus of flowering plants of the family Rutaceae. It is native to eastern Australia and includes just two species, '' E. australasius'' and '' E. banksii''. ''Eriostemon australasius'', commonly known as pink wax flower, oc ...

'', and ''

Phebalium ''Phebalium'' is a genus of thirty species of shrubs or small trees in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to Australia. The leaves are arranged alternately, simple and often warty, the flowers arranged singly or in umbels on the ends of bran ...

'' (Rutaceae) * A taxonomic review of the genera ''

'' and ''

Philotheca ''Philotheca'' is a genus of about fifty species of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae. Plants in this genus are shrubs with simple leaves arranged alternately along the stems, flowers that usually have five sepals, five petals and ten st ...

'' (Rutaceae: Boronieae).; * New species and nomenclatural changes in ''Phebalium'' and related genera (Rutaceae); * ''Rhetinocarpha'' (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae) - a new genus from Western Australia; * ''Coronidium'', a new Australian genus in the Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae).

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* 1928 births 20th-century Australian botanists Living people Date of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-botanist-stub