Paul Graham Wilson

{{Short description|Australian botanist (1928–2024)}}

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| name = Paul G. Wilson

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1928|01|}}

| birth_place = Tzaneen

| death_date = {{death date and age|2024|7|29|1928|01||df=y}}

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| alma_mater = University of Adelaide

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| fields = Botany

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| spouse = Margaret A. Wilson

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| nationality = Australia, Union of South Africa

| author_abbrev_bot = Paul G.Wilson

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Paul Graham Wilson (January 1928 – 29 July 2024){{Cite journal |last=Maslin |first=Bruce |date=September 2024 |title=Paul Graham Wilson (1928–2024) |url=https://asbs.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/ASBSNewsletter_200_2024.pdf |journal=Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter |issue=201 |pages=43 |access-date=2025-01-22 |via=Australasian Systematic Botany Society}} was an Australian botanist.{{cite web |title=Index of Botanists - Wilson, Paul G. |url=https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?mode=details&id=26303 |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=22 June 2020}}{{cite web |title=Wilson, Paul Graham |url=http://legacy.tropicos.org/Person/10478 |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |access-date=22 June 2020}} As of 1998, Wilson was the most prolific contributor to the journal Nuytsia, 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.{{cite journal |last1=Marchant |first1=Neville G. |title=Dedication to Paul Graham Wilson |journal=Nuytsia |date=1998 |volume=12 |issue=2 |page=161 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/226456#page/7/mode/1up |access-date=22 June 2020}} Following his retirement from the Western Australian Herbarium in 1993, he helped to maintain a comprehensive census of the flora of Western Australia.{{Cite journal|last=Wege|first=Juliet|date=June 2017|title=A fond farewell|url=http://www.asbs.org.au/newsletter/pdf/17-june-171.pdf|journal=Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter|volume=171|pages=30-31|via=Australasian Systematic Botany Society}}

Wilson published over 80 scientific papers, provided names for 282 new plant taxa and changed the name or status of a further 400 plants.{{Cite journal |last=Lepschi |first=Brendan Johann |last2=Maslin |first2=Bruce |last3=Barker |first3=William Robert |last4=Wilson |first4=Annette |last5=George |first5=Alex |last6=Wilson |first6=Margaret Anne |date=2024-12-01 |title=Thee indefatigable botanist: Paul Graham Wilson (January 1928 – July 2024) |url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131838592 |journal=Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter |volume=201 |pages=4–31}} He mostly published papers dealing with the plant families Rutaceae, Asteraceae and Chenopodiaceae.

The following plant species or subspecies have been named after Wilson:

• Tecticornia indefessa{{Cite journal |last=Shepherd |first=Kelly Anne |date=2007-01-01 |title=Tecticornia indefessa (Chenopodiaceae: Salicornioideae), a new mat samphire (formerly Tegicornia) from north of Esperance, Western Australia |url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100730362 |journal=Nuytsia |language=English |volume=17 |pages=367–374 |doi=10.58828/NUY00483}}
• Acacia wilsonii
• Boronia citriodora subsp. paulwilsonii
• Cryptandra wilsonii
• Calandrinia wilsonii
• Drummondita wilsonii
• Microcorys wilsoniana
• Nematolepis wilsonii (Phebalium wilsonii)
• Podotheca wilsonii
• Ptilotus wilsonii
• Sclerolaena wilsonii (Bassia wilsonii)
• Xerochrysum wilsonii