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 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,
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.
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 ''
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 ''
Philotheca'' (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).
References
External links
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1928 births
20th-century Australian botanists
Living people
Date of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
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