Natalie Whitford Uhl (1919–2017) was an American botanist who specialised in palms.The eldest of three sisters, she grew up on a farm in Rhode Island. She graduated B.S in 1940 from Rhode Island State College, publishing two papers on general plant morphology with Vernon Cheadle, her senior year advisor, the same year. In 1940 she went to Cornell University, earning her M.S. in 1943, and her Ph.D. in 1947. While at Cornell, she met and married her husband, Charles Uhl, abandoning botany to start a family.Her work with palms began in 1963, when she returned to Cornell to work with Harold E. Moore, who was also the chief editor of Principes, the journal of the International Palm Society. She published her first article as sole author in 1966, on palm inflorescence morphology. In 1978, she and John Dransfield became associate editors of Principes, which later became Palms, and co-editors in 1980 with the death of Moore. She continued to co-edit it until 2000.The Eocene fossil palm Uhlia allanbyensis was named in recognition of her work on palm taxonomy in 1994. The palm species Aphandra natalia was named in her honor in 1987. Source: Wikipedia (en)