William R. Sykes

William Russell Sykes (1927–2018), New Zealander botanist.

IPNI standard form: Sykes

Taxon names authored

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• 3 taxon names authored by William R. Sykes

Eponyms

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• 3 eponyms of William R. Sykes

Publications

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• Sykes, W.R. 1969. The effect of goats on vegetation of the Kermadec Islands. Proceedings of the New Zealand Ecological Society 16: 13–16. Reference page. 
• Sykes, W.R. 1971. Senecio lautus in the Kermadec Islands. New Zealand Journal of Botany 9(3): 533–538. DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.1971.10430199 Reference page. 
• Sykes, W.R. 1977. Kermadec Islands flora: an annotated check list. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin 219: [1]–216. Reference page. 
• Sykes, W.R. & Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1979. A new combination in Syzygium for Eugenia maire (Myrtaceae) of New Zealand. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 60(3): 396–401. BHL Reference page. 
• Sykes, W.R. 1982. Checklist of dicotyledons naturalised in New Zealand 15. Annonales, Berberidales, Cactales, Fagales, some Geraniales, Juglandales, Laurales, Rutales, Salicales, Sapindales, Tiliales, Nyctaginaceae, and Zygophyllaceae. New Zealand Journal of Botany 20(4): 333–341. DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.1982.10428502 Reference page. 
• Sykes, W.R. 1987. Kermadec ngaio (Myoporum, Myoporaceae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 25(4): 595–601. DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.1987.10410090 Reference page. 
• Sykes, W.R. 1987. A new species of Senecio from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 25(4): 611–613. DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.1987.10410092 Reference page. 
• Sykes, W.R. 1988. Notes on New Zealand Plantago species. New Zealand Journal of Botany 26(2): 321–323. DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.1988.10410121 Reference page. 
• Webb, C.J., Sykes, W.R. & Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1988. Flora of New Zealand. Volume IV: Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons. Christchurch: Botany Division, LXVIII, 1365 pp., ISBN 0-477-02529-3. Reference page. 
• Sykes, W.R. & West, C.J. 1996. New records and other information on the vascular flora of the Kermadec Islands. New Zealand Journal of Botany 34(4): 447–462. DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.1996.10410126 Reference page. 
• Sykes, W.R. 1998. Scaevola gracilis (Goodeniaceae) in the Kermadec Islands and Tonga. New Zealand Journal of Botany 36(4): 671–673. DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.1998.9512604 Reference page. 
• Sykes, W.R., West, C.J., Beever, J.E. & Fife, A.J. 2000. Kermadec Islands flora - special edition. A compilation of modern material about the flora of the Kermadec Islands. Lincoln, Canterbury, N.Z.: Manaaki Whenua Press. ISBN 0-478-09339-X Reference page. 
• de Lange, P.J., Gardner, R.O., Sykes, W.R., Crowcroft, G.M., Cameron, E.K., Stalker, F., Christian, M.L. & Braggins, J.E. 2005. Vascular flora of Norfolk Island: some additions and taxonomic notes. New Zealand Journal of Botany 43(2): 563–596. DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.2005.9512975 Reference page. 
• Sykes, W.R. 2014. A new species of Lepidium (Brassicaceae) in the Cook Islands. Phytotaxa 181(3): 184–187. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.181.3.7 Reference page. 
• Sykes, W.R. 2016. Flora of the Cook Islands. 973 pp. National Tropical Botanical Garden, Hawai‘i. ISBN 978-0-915809-07-3 Reference page.