Patricia G. Gensel

Patricia Gabbey Gensel (born March 18, 1944) is an American botanist and paleobotanist.

Life Gensel was born in Buffalo, New York, and attended Hope College in Holland, Michigan, earning a B.A. in 1966. She obtained her Ph.D. in 1972 from the University of Connecticut. Until her retirement in 2024, Gensel was on the faculty of the Biology Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She served as president of the Botanical Society of America for 2000–2001. Gensel is the namesake of the genus, Genselia Knaus, which consists of four species of early Carboniferous plants found in the Pocono and Price Formations in the Appalachian Basin of North America.

Publications

Gastaldo RA, Gensel PG, Glasspool IJ, Hinds SJ, King OA, McLean D, Park AF, Stimson MR, Stonesifer T. (2024) Enigmatic fossil plants with three-dimensional, arborescent-growth architecture from the earliest Carboniferous of New Brunswick, Canada. Curr Biol. 2024 Feb 26;34(4):781-792.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.01.011. Epub 2024 Feb 2. PMID 38309270