Paul Edward Berry

Paul Edward Berry (born 1952) is an American botanist and curator. He is Director of the Wisconsin State Herbarium.[1][2]

Berry received his PhD. in Botany, from Washington University in St. Louis, in 1980, conducting biogeography studies.

Berry has worked in taxonomy of the genus Fuchsia (family Onagraceae), in 110 species of this ornamental genus, from Neotropic forests, and in New Zealand and Tahiti; studying the molecular taxonomy of Fuchsia and molecular temporal analysis. He published a popular text on Native Fuchsia Species, by Timber Press in 2004.

The standard author abbreviation P.E.Berry is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[3]
  1. ^ "Professor Paul E. Berry". June 14, 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-06-14.
  2. ^ "Paul E. Berry | U-M LSA University of Michigan Herbarium". lsa.umich.edu.
  3. ^ International Plant Names Index.  P.E.Berry.