Peter Wilson
Position
Senior Botanist
Branch
Science & Public Programs
Section
Plant Diversity
Email
peter.wilson@rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au
Phone
+61 2 9231 8158
Fax
+61 2 9251 7231
Research interests
Systematics of Myrtaceae and Indigofera (Fabaceae)
Keywords
Systematics, Phylogeny, Morphology
Current research projects
- Defining generic limits within the Chamelaucium alliance (Myrtaceae) (with Chris Quinn and Margaret Heslewood)
- hylogeny of the Myrtaceae clade of the order Myrtales (Myrtaceae, Heteropyxidaceae, Psiloxylaceae, Vochysiaceae) (with Ken Sytsma, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
- Generic position of eastern Australian species of Babingtonia (Myrtaceae) (with Chris Quinn and Margaret Heslewood, and Zhuang Xueying, South China Agricultural University)
- Systematics of the Indigofera pratensis complex (Fabaceae) (PhD study with Aniuska Kazandjian, James Cook University, Townsville)
- Revision of the tribe Indigofereae (Fabaceae) in Australia (with Ross Rowe, Environment Australia)
Key publications
- Wilson, P.G. and J.T. Waterhouse (1982). A review of the genus Tristania R.Br. (Myrtaceae): a heterogeneous assemblage of five genera. Australian Journal of Botany 30, 413-446.
- Wilson, P.G. (1987). Taxonomic notes on some Australian species of Indigofera (Fabaceae-Faboideae). Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 10, 19-26.
- Wilson, P.G. & B.P.M. Hyland (1988). New taxa of rainforest Myrtaceae from northern Queensland. Telopea 3, 257-71.
- Wilson, P.G. (1990). A revision of the genus Xanthostemon (Myrtaceae) in Australia. Telopea 3, 451-476.
- Wilson, P.G. (1993). Thaleropia, a new genus for Metrosideros queenslandica (Myrtaceae) and its allies. Australian Systematic Botany 6, 251-9.
- Wilson, P.G. & R. Rowe (1994). The Indigofera trita complex (Fabaceae: Indigofereae) in Australia. Telopea 5, 637-645.
- Gadek, P.A., P.G. Wilson & C.J. Quinn (1996). Phylogenetic reconstruction in Myrtaceae using matK, with particular reference to the position of Psiloxylon and Heteropyxis. Australian Systematic Botany 9, 283-290.
- Wilson, P.G. (1997). Myrtaceae in the Pacific, with special reference to Metrosideros. Pp. 233-245 in A. Keast & S.E. Miller (eds), The origin and evolution of Pacific Island biotas, New Guinea to eastern Polynesia: Patterns and processes. (SPB Academic Publishing: Amsterdam).
- Conti, E., S.A. Graham, A. Litt, P.G. Wilson, B.G. Briggs, L.A.S. Johnson & K.J. Sytsma (1998). Interfamilial relationships in Myrtales: molecular phylogeny and patterns of morphological evolution. Systematic Botany 22, 629-647
- Wilson, P.G., M.M. O’Brien & C.J. Quinn (2000). Anetholea (Myrtaceae), a new genus for Backhousia anisata: a cryptic member of the Acmena alliance. Australian Systematic Botany 13, 429-435.
- O’Brien, M.M., C.J. Quinn & P.G. Wilson (2000). Molecular systematics of the Leptospermum suballiance (Myrtaceae). Australian Journal of Botany 48, 621-628.
- Wilson, P.G. (2001). Indigofera adenotricha (Fabaceae: Faboideae), a new species from western Arnhem Land. Telopea 9, 353-355.
- Wilson, P.G., M.M. O’Brien, P.A. Gadek & C.J. Quinn (2001). Myrtaceae revisited: A reassessment of infrafamilial groups. American Journal of Botany 88, 2013-2025.
- Carr, D.J., S.G.M. Carr, B.P.M. Hyland, P.G. Wilson & P.Y. Ladiges (2002). Stockwellia quadrifida (Myrtaceae), a new Australian genus and species in the eucalypt group. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 139, 15-421.
- Lam, N., P.G. Wilson, M. M. Heslewood & C. J. Quinn (2002). A phylogenetic analysis of the Chamelaucium alliance (Myrtaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 15, 535-543.
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