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Mark Wayne ChaseFRS(born 1951) is a US-born British botanist. He is noted for work in plant classification and evolution, and one of the instigators of theAngiosperm Phylogeny Group-classification for flowering plants which is partly based on DNA studies. In particular he has researchedorchids,and currently investigates ploidy and hybridization inNicotiana.[1]

In 1984, he received 'TheGeorge H.M. LawrenceMemorial Award', in the amount of $2,000, presented by theHunt Institute for Botanical Documentation,Carnegie Mellon Universityand presented at the annual banquet of theBotanical Society of America.[2]

In 1998 he shared theLinnean MedalwithColin Patterson.In 2008 he was one of thirteen recipients of theDarwin-Wallace Medal,which was given every 50 years by theLinnean Society of London.He was the Keeper of theJodrell Laboratory;he is now retired but still an honorary research associate at theRoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew.He is a Fellow of theRoyal Society.[3]

He was awarded theVeitch Memorial Medalof theRoyal Horticultural Societyin 2014.[4]

Selected publications

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Taxa named by Mark Chase

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SeeTaxa named by Mark Wayne Chase.

References

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  1. ^Chase, M. W., M. J. M. Christenhusz, J. G. Conran, S. Dodsworth, F. Nollet Medeiros de Assis, L. P. Felix and M. F. Fay. 2018. Unexpected diversity of Australian tobacco species (Nicotiana section Suaveolentes, Solanaceae). Curtis’s Botanical Magazine 35: 212–227.http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/curt.12241
  2. ^"Lawrence Memorial Award | Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation".www.huntbotanical.org.Retrieved15 July2021.
  3. ^Royal Garden's Kew siteArchived7 September 2008 at theWayback Machine
  4. ^"2014 RHS Awards for Exceptional Contributions to Horticulture Announced".Archived fromthe originalon 17 March 2017.Retrieved24 December2016.
  5. ^International Plant Names Index.M.W.Chase.