Wilson, Trevor C.   (fl. 2000's)

Hons. B.Sc. in Biology from University of New Brunswick in Canada.

M.Sc. in Botany from University of Guelph in Canada.

2006 to 2010 - PhD, The University of Sydney, (School of Biological Sciences).

2012 to 2018 - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Royal Botanic Garden Sydney.

2018 to 2019 - Research Technician, Royal Botanic Garden Sydney.

2019 to 2022 - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Royal Botanic Garden Sydney.

2023 to 2023 - Curator (Collections), Royal Botanic Garden Sydney.

2023 to present - Systematic Botanist (Plant Discovery and Evolution), Royal Botanic Garden Sydney.

He is based at the National Herbarium of New South Wales at the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan.

Trevor's journey as a biologist has been marked by an insatiable curiosity for the natural world and an unwavering commitment to understanding and conserving biological diversity.

His expertise and research portfolio covers various domains, including systematics, evolution, pollination, comparative developmental morphology, phylogenetic reconstruction, genomic sequencing, population statistics and molecular dating. This relies on a multifaceted approach of gathering data and obtaining results from field collections and observations, laboratory work, computer-based analyses, and horticultural experiments.

Trevor is also recognised as an expert on the mint family (Lamiaceae), one of the largest flowering plant families known for its broad diversity, cosmopolitan distribution, and producer of an enormous number of valuable chemical compounds important to medicine and agriculture. Federal funding from the Australian Biological Resources Study has played a key role assisting Trevor in the last decade with improving understanding of this family's taxonomy and evolution throughout Australasia.

One of his favourite research groups, the genus Prostanthera, has been associated with many of these outputs. Prostanthera is the most diverse Australian genus in the Lamiaceae, popular as an ornamental and source of aromatics, and a suitable candidate for understanding more about the evolutionary processes and biogeography.

Sources (2025): Extracted from:
https://www.botanicgardens.org.au/about-us/our-people/meet-our-experts/trevor-wilson
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9026-0521
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vcKHNKkAAAAJ&hl=en
https://resources.austplants.com.au/stories/where-they-keep-plants-the-story-of-the-new-herbarium-at-the-australian-botanic-garden/
Portrait Photo: 2007, M.Fagg, ASBS Conf. Darwin, NT.

Collecting localities for 'Wilson, T.C.' from AVH (2025)

Data from 2,355 specimens