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- ↑ Green, P. S. (1991). "Review of Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai'i by Warren L. Wagner, Derral R. Herbst, and S. H. Sohmer". Kew Bulletin. 46 (3): 595. doi:10.2307/4110564. ISSN 0075-5974. JSTOR 4110564.
- 1 2 "BSA Merit Award". Botanical Society of America (botany.org).
- ↑ "Engler Medal in Silver". IAPT.
- ↑ "Asa Gray Award". American Society of Plant Taxonomists.
- ↑ International Plant Names Index. W.L.Wagner.
