Dr. Michael Woods, Professor of Botany and Curator at Troy University is the recipient of the 19th annual Richard and Minnie Windler Award. The Windler Award is presented annually for the best paper in plant systematics published in Castanea during the previous year. His paper, ‘‘The genera Desmodium and Hylodesmum (Fabaceae) in Alabama’’ was published in the March 2008 issue of Castanea 73(1):46–69.