Wyatt, Robert Edward   (1950 -  )

Born in Charleston, South Carolina,USA.

Attended high school in Statesville, North Carolina, USA.

He received his bachelor's degree in Botany from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his doctorate, also in Botany with a minor in Zoology, from Duke University.

He taught for two years at Texas A&M University before joining the faculty at the University of Georgia, where he was a Professor of Botany and Ecology for more than twenty years and later continued as an adjunct appointment.

From 1999 to 2005 he served as the Executive Director of the Highlands Biological Station in the mountains of western North Carolina, an interinstitutional center of the University of North Carolina.

His faculty appointment was as a Research Professor of Biology at UNC-Chapel Hill.

From the outset, his research interests blended plant evolution, ecology, and systematics to focus on plant reproduction.

Over the years he received numerous awards for teaching, as well as research, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, which enabled him to produce a book entitled 'Ecology and Evolution of Plant Reproduction'.

He traveled widely to give lectures, short courses, and do research in countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Costa Rica, Sweden, Norway, China, and Japan.

He trained more than forty graduate students, and published more than 150 scientific papers.

As a result of his Australian visit he published a bryophyte paper titled 'Bryophytes of Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve, Western Australia' with A. Stoneburner and Stephen D. Hopper in 2024.

It would appear that about 130 of his collections in AVH have the initials "Wyatt, R.A."

Source: Extracted from:
https://www.gf.org/fellows/robert-edward-wyatt/
Portrait Photo: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert-Wyatt-3.

Collecting localities for 'Wyatt, R. and Wyatt, R.A.' from AVH (2025)

Data from 1,066 specimens