Karen Louise Wilson AM (born 1950) is an Australian botanist.
[1] Some of her research interests are: systematics, phylogenetic and biogeographic studies on Cyperaceae, Casuarinaceae, Juncaceae and Polygonaceae.
[2] From 1973 to the present (As of 17 September 2018[update]) she has worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, National Herbarium of New South Wales, Australia.
(1998) (1998) Monocots : systematics and evolution 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.
[8][9] The citation lists the following achievements and services:[9] 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.