Patricia G. Gensel

Patricia Gabbey Gensel (born March 18, 1944) is an American botanist and paleobotanist. Born in Buffalo, New York, she attended Hope College, earning a B.A. in 1966. She obtained her Ph.D. in 1972 from the University of Connecticut. She would go on to work at the biology department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is noted for researching Paleozoic plants. She served as President of the Botanical Society of America for 2000-2001. Gensel is the namesake of the genus, Genselia Knaus, which consists of four species of early Carboniferous plants found in the Pocono and Price Formations in the Appalachian Basin of North America.

The standard author abbreviation Gensel is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

Books

• Pierre-André Bourque, Sylvain Desbiens, Patricia G. Gensel. 005 Silurian-Devonian Biota and Paleoenvironments of Gaspé Peninsula and Northern New Brunswick. Ed. North American Paleontological Convention, 143 pp.