Natalie Whitford Uhl

Published names As a taxonomist, Uhl described twelve new species, all of them in conjunction with other palm taxonomists. She first described two species in conjunction with Dransfield in 1984; the two described another species two years later. Along with Dransfield, and in one case Anthony Kyle Irvine, she also published a handful of recombinations, notably moving the monotypic African Wissmannia carinensis to the East Asian and Australian Livistona. After the publication of their 1983 book Genera Palmarum, she and Dransfield formally described a number of the new infrageneric taxa proposed in it in a 1986 article. Halmoorea trispatha J.Dransf. & N.W.Uhl (1984) Marojejya darianii J.Dransf. & N.W.Uhl (1984) Ravenea moorei J.Dransf. & N.W.Uhl (1986) Chamaedorea correae Hodel & N.W.Uhl (1990) Chamaedorea guntheriana Hodel & N.W.Uhl (1990) Chamaedorea palmeriana Hodel & N.W.Uhl (1990) Chamaedorea pedunculata Hodel & N.W.Uhl (1990) Chamaedorea robertii Hodel & N.W.Uhl (1990) Chamaedorea sullivaniorum Hodel & N.W.Uhl (1990) Chamaedorea undulatifolia Hodel & N.W.Uhl (1990) Chamaedorea vistae Hodel & N.W.Uhl (1990) Chamaedorea whitelockiana Hodel & N.W.Uhl (1990)

Awards In 1999, Uhl was awarded the Dent Smith Memorial Award by the International Palm Society for her many decades of research on palms and for her contributions to the Society as journal editor and director of the Board. In 2002, she won the Asa Gray award, She also received the Robert Allerton Award from the National Tropical Botanic Garden in 2003 in recognition of her lifetime achievements in botany.

Selected works

Moore, H.E.Jr. & Uhl, N.W. (1984). The indigenous palms of New Caledonia. Lawai, Kauai, Hawaii, Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden. Dransfield, J., Uhl, N.W., et al. (2008). Genera Palmarum: evolution and classification of palms. Second edition. Kew Publishing.