Anton 'Tony' Albert Reznicek (born 1950) is a botanist known best for his work on the sedge genus ''

Carex ''Carex'' is a vast genus of over 2,000 species of grass-like plants in the family (biology), family Cyperaceae, commonly known as sedges (or seg, in older books). Other members of the family Cyperaceae are also called sedges, however those of ge ...

'' and co-authorship of the ''Field Manual of Michigan Flora''. He is currently curator emeritus at the

University of Michigan Herbarium The University of Michigan Herbarium is the herbarium of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the United States. One of the most-extensive botanical collections in the world, the herbarium has some 1.7 million specimens of vascul ...

Education

Reznicek's higher education began at the

University of Guelph The University of Guelph (abbreviated U of G) is a comprehensive Public university, public research university in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. It was established in 1964 after the amalgamation of Ontario Agricultural College (1874), the MacDonald I ...

, where he received his bachelor's with honors in 1971. He completed his master's at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ...

, where he completed his thesis ''The Taxonomy of Carex Series Lupulinae in Canada'' in 1973. Moving forward, he completed his Ph.D., also at the University of Toronto, where he wrote ''The Taxonomy of the Stellulatae group of Carex in North America''. While at the University of Toronto, Reznicek met his wife Susan, a botanist herself who was studying arctic ecology.

Scholarship

Reznicek has worked broadly in the field of botany, but is best known for his work on sedges, specifically the genus ''Carex''. His work looks broadly at the systematics and evolution within this genus. While his work in more recent years has been centered in the Great Lakes region, Reznicek has done extensive work in Latin America. In addition to his work with sedges, Reznicek is known for co-authoring the ''Field Manual of Michigan Flora'', a comprehensive work completed in collaboration with

Edward Groesbeck Voss Edward Groesbeck "Ed" Voss (February 22, 1929 – February 13, 2012) was an American botanist and expert on taxonomic nomenclature. Voss was born in Delaware, Ohio, received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 1954 and spen ...

which enables users to identify several thousand plants known to

Michigan Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, ...

. In addition to the print version, Reznicek has developed and maintained an online version of Michigan Flora.

Honors

In 2006, a new species of sedge was named in Reznicek's honor: '' Carex reznicekii'' (Reznicek's sedge).

References

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