Karen Louise Wilson

Karen Louise Wilson (born 1950) is an Australian botanist.

Career
Some of her research interests are: systematics, phylogenetic and biogeographic studies on Cyperaceae, Casuarinaceae, Juncaceae and Polygonaceae. Other professional interests include botanical nomenclature; botanical history, biodiversity, informatics and scientific editing.

From 1973 to the present she has worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, National Herbarium of New South Wales, Australia. Wilson graduated from the University of New South Wales with an MSc in 1986.

Names published
She has published at least 105 species names according to APNI, while IPNI records some 107. (incomplete)
 * Gymnanthera fruticosa K.L.Wilson (Gymnanthera cunninghamii) J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 10(1): 113 (1987).
 * Rhyncharrhena linearis (Decne.) K.L.Wilson, Telopea 2(1): 38 (1980) (now Vincetoxicum lineare)
 * Baumea johnsonii K.L.Wilson, Telopea 1(6): 457 (1980).

See also Taxa named by Karen Louise Wilson

Publications
(incomplete)

Journal articles

 * Rye, B.L., Barrett, R.L., Barrett, M.D., Bruhl, J.J., Clarke, K.L., Wilson, K.L. (2015) Five new species and a new combination in Cyperaceae from the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Nuytsia 26: 167-184. PDF.
 * Thomson, S.A. et.al. (2018)
 * Thomson, S.A. et.al. (2018)
 * Thomson, S.A. et.al. (2018)

Books
Karen L. Wilson and David A. Morrison (eds.) (1998) (1998) Monocots : systematics and evolution

Honours
In 2008, she received an AM (member of the Order of Australia) in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to botany as a researcher and for the recording and documentation of Australian biodiversity. The citation lists the following achievements and services:

In addition she was a member of the organising committees for regional workshops on Global Taxonomy Initiative of Convention on Biological Diversity, a convenor of the Committee on Electronic Publishing and Databasing, International Association for Plant Taxonomy (1993-2005), a convenor of the International Conference on ‘Comparative Biology of the Monocotyledons’, Sydney (1998) co-editing the proceedings, and more.