The Engler Medal in Silver Awarded to DR. Terry Pennington and MS. Rosemary Wise

Abstract

The Engler Medal in Silver is awarded for an outstanding monograph or other work in systematic botany, mycology or phycology and honors the legacy of Adolf Engler (1844–1930) in these disciplines. The Engler Medal in Silver was first awarded in 1987, at first annually, and since 2007 biennially. The 2020 Medal, for a work published in 2017–2018, has been awarded to Terry Pennington and Rosemary Wise for: “The Genus Sloanea (Elaeocarpaceae) in America”, DH Books, Milbourne Port. 447 pp. (2017). Terry Pennington has had a long and productive career studying Neotropical forests, mostly in Mexico and Peru, but also anywhere in between, producing several monographs and field guides working for the Food and Agriculture Organization and The New York Botanical Garden. Since 1999 he has been an Honorary Research Fellow at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Rosemary Wise has been a prolific botanical artist documenting a wide variety of plant groups for several researchers for over 50 years. She is a recipient of the Jill Smythies Award from the Linnean Society of London for published botanical illustrations and the Sibthorp Medal from the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford for “Lifetime Services to Botany”. Terry and Rosemary have collaborated since the 1960s when she did the illustrations for his dissertation, and that has not stopped since, with works on Sapotaceae, Meliaceae, Inga (Fabaceae), the trees of Peru and many important botanical topics. We hope to be able to present him with the medal in person as soon as we can.