# Karen Louise Wilson

Karen Louise Wilson AM (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 (As of 17 September 2018) 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.
The standard author abbreviation K.L.Wilson is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

## Names published

She has published at least 105 species names according to APNI, while IPNI records some 107.
* 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).
(incomplete)

## Publications

(incomplete)

### Journal articles

* Plunkett, George; Wilson, Karen; Bruhl, Jeremy (2013). "Sedges in the mist: A new species of Lepidosperma (Cyperaceae, Schoeneae) from the mountains of Tasmania". PhytoKeys (28): 19–59. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.28.5592. ISSN 1314-2003. PMC 3881413. PMID 24399891.
* 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.ISSN 0085-4417 PDF.
* Larridon, Isabel; Bauters, Kenneth; Semmouri, Ilias; Viljoen, Jan-Adriaan; Prychid, Christina J.; Muasya, A. Muthama; Bruhl, Jeremy J.; Wilson, Karen L.; Senterre, Bruno; Goetghebeur, Paul (2018). "Molecular phylogenetics of the genus Costularia (Schoeneae, Cyperaceae) reveals multiple distinct evolutionary lineages". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 126: 196–209. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.04.016. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 29679713. S2CID 5028867.
* Thomson, S.A. et.al. (2018) Thomson, Scott A.; Pyle, Richard L.; Ahyong, Shane T.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel; Ammirati, Joe; Araya, Juan Francisco; Ascher, John S.; Audisio, Tracy Lynn; Azevedo-Santos, Valter M.; Bailly, Nicolas; Baker, William J.; Balke, Michael; Barclay, Maxwell V. L.; Barrett, Russell L.; Benine, Ricardo C.; Bickerstaff, James R. M.; Bouchard, Patrice; Bour, Roger; Bourgoin, Thierry; Boyko, Christopher B.; Breure, Abraham S. H.; Brothers, Denis J.; Byng, James W.; Campbell, David; Ceríaco, Luis M. P.; Cernák, István; Cerretti, Pierfilippo; Chang, Chih-Han; Cho, Soowon; et al. (2018). "Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation". PLOS Biology. 16 (3): e2005075. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.2005075. ISSN 1545-7885. PMC 5851535. PMID 29538381.
* Musili, Paul M.; Bruhl, Jeremy J.; Wilson, Karen L. (2018). "Schoenus rupicola: a narrowly endemic species distinguished from S. melanostachys (Cyperaceae, Schoeneae) in eastern Australia". Australian Systematic Botany. 31 (3): 219. doi:10.1071/SB17046. ISSN 1030-1887. S2CID 90196364.
* Musili, Paul M.; Gibbs, Adele K.; Wilson, Karen L.; Bruhl, Jeremy J. (2016). "Schoenus (Cyperaceae) is not monophyletic based on ITS nrDNA sequence data". Australian Systematic Botany. 29 (5): 265. doi:10.1071/SB15046. ISSN 1030-1887. S2CID 89582913.
* Duke, Colin C.; Tran, Van H.; Duke, Rujee K.; Abu-Mellal, Abdallah; Plunkett, George T.; King, Douglas I.; Hamid, Kaiser; Wilson, Karen L.; Barrett, Russell L.; Bruhl, Jeremy J. (2017). "A sedge plant as the source of Kangaroo Island propolis rich in prenylated p-coumarate ester and stilbenes". Phytochemistry. 134: 87–97. doi:10.1016/j.phytochem.2016.11.005. ISSN 0031-9422. PMID 27890584.
* Jiménez-Mejías, Pedro; Luceño, Modesto; Wilson, Karen L.; Waterway, Marcia J.; Roalson, Eric H. (2016). "Clarification of the Use of the Terms Perigynium and Utricle in Carex L. (Cyperaceae)". Systematic Botany. 41 (3): 519–528. doi:10.1600/036364416X692488. ISSN 0363-6445. S2CID 89281001.

### 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:
Position :
| present | Acting Manager, Plant Diversity Section, Botanic Gardens Trust, Sydney |
| 1973 - | Botanist/Special Botanist |
| 1986 - 1993 | Scientific editor, Telopea scientific journal |
| 1992 - 1995 | Scientific representative, Committee, Friends of the Gardens |
| 1992 - | Member, Friends’ Publication Committee |
| 2002 - | Adjunct Associate Professor, University of New England |
| 1994 - 1996 | President, Linnean Society of NSW |
| 1997 - 2008 | Vice-President, Linnean Society of NSW |
| 1984 - | Council Member, Linnean Society of NSW |
| 1990 - 2000 | Chair, Joyce W Vickery Research Fund Committee |
| 1993 - 1999 | Member, Editorial Advisory Committee, Flora of Australia |
| 2005 - | Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Australian Systematic Botany journal |
| 1975 - 1979 | Secretary, Australian Systematic Botany Society |
| 1979 - 1980 | Councillor, Australian Systematic Botany Society |
| 2008 | Member, new Committee for Data in Science, Australian Academy of Science |
| 1980 - | Author/Co-Author of a range of scientific publications,(mainly on sedges, rushes,she-oaks and smartweeds) |
| | Director, Species 2000 ‘Catalogue of Life’ Program |
| 2004 - 2006 | Chair, Global Team, Species 2000 ‘Catalogue of Life’ |
| 1997- | Member, Global Team, Species 2000 ‘Catalogue of Life’ |
| 2001 - 2007 | Chair, Taxonomy Group |
| 1999 - | Member, Species 2000, Asia-Oceania Working Group |
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.