Warren Lambert Wagner

Warren Lambert Wagner (born February 8, 1950,

The previous flora (Hillebrand, 1888) was out of date, and subsequent contributions featured varied species concepts and were published in scattered places. The 1990 Manual (rev. 1999) was a major factor in permitting botanists to explore the amazing insular evolutionary phenomena that the Hawaiian flora contains. Wagner’s work on islands continued with the Marquesas, where cladistic studies and contributions using DNA permitted an understanding of the biogeographic nature of the remote and neglected archipelago.^[5]

Since 1988 when he was hired as curator of Pacific botany, Wagner has worked at the Department of Botany of the

His research primarily focuses on biosystematic, taxonomic and phylogenetic studies, monographs and floras, classification, phylogeny, and biogeography of Pacific island floras contributing to understanding island biodiversity, evolution, and, therefore, conservation.[3]

Wagner ... worked with a husband-and-wife team of UC Irvine botanists, Ann Sakai and Stephen Weller, to study Schiedea, a genus of shrubs and vines that are in the carnation family. The genus has an unusual trait—it contains both bisexual and asexual plants.^[2]

In June 1993 in Boulder, Colorado, he married Lucy Carol Julian. They have a son and a daughter.^[3]

Awards and honors

• 1990 — Engler Medal in Silver (shared with D. R. Herbst and S. H. Sohmer) from the International Association for Plant Taxonomy for the book Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai'i^[6]
• 1995 — Robert Allerton Award from the National Tropical Botanical Garden for his services in the field of tropical botany and horticulture^[3]
• 2008 — Merit Award of the Botanical Society of America^[5]
• 2015 —
  Asa Gray Award of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists^[7]

• Wagner, Warren L.; Aldon, Earl F. (1978). Manual of the Saltbushes (Atriplex Spp.) in New Mexico. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station.
• Wagner, Warren Lambert; Stockhouse, Robert Erland; Klein, William M. (1985). The Systematics and Evolution of the Oenothera Caespitosa Species Complex (Onagraceae). Missouri Botanical Garden.
  ISBN 9789996855139
  .
• Wagner, Warren L.; Herbst, Derral R.; Sohmer, S.H. (1 August 1999). Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii: Revised Edition. University of Hawaii Press.
  ISBN 978-0-8248-2166-1
  . (1st edition published in 1990)
• Wagner, Warren Lambert; Funk, Vicki Ann (1995). Hawaiian Biogeography: Evolution on a Hot Spot Archipelago. Smithsonian Institution Press.
• Levin, Rachel A.; Wagner, Warren L.; Hoch, Peter C.; Nepokroeff, Molly; Pires, J. Chris; Zimmer, Elizabeth A.; Sytsma, Kenneth J. (2003). "Family-level relationships of Onagraceae based on chloroplast rbcL and ndhF data". American Journal of Botany. 90 (1): 107–115.
  PMID 21659085
  .
• Wagner, Warren Lambert; Weller, Stephen G.;
  ISBN 978-0-912861-72-2
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• Wagner, W. L.; Hoch, P. C.; Raven, P. H. (2007). Revised classification of the Onagraceae (PDF). Systematic Botany Monographs. Vol. 83.
• Baldwin, B. G.; Wagner, W. L. (2010). "Hawaiian angiosperm radiations of North American origin". Annals of Botany. 105 (6): 849–879.
  PMID 20382966
  .

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