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Oxford Plant Systematics with News from Oxford University Herbaria (OXF and FHO), Department of Plant Sciences, Oxford Oxford Plant Systematics With news from Oxford University Herbaria (OXF and FHO), Department of Plant Sciences, Oxford OPS 17 May 2011 Cloud forest plants on the Eastern slopes of the Andes Foreword Contents This issue of OPS highlights the roles of botanical exploration, herbarium and Foreword laboratory work for systematics research in Stephen A. Harris …………………………………………………….. 2 some of the world’s biodiversity hotspots. Robert Scotland emphasises the importance of herbaria in the global species discovery News items …………………………………………………………....... 3 process. Caroline Pannell, John Wood and Steven Heathcote highlight the value of Improving ‘hotspot’ conservation fieldwork for research on Aglaia in Papua Denis Filer ……………………………………………………...……. 3 New Guinea, Bolivian cerrado plants and Andean bromeliads. Elizabeth Cooke and A new Taxonomy Library for Oxford John Wood use chloroplast DNA sequences Anne Marie Catterall …………..…………………………………….. 3 to identify a mysterious plant collected in the Bolivian cerrado. Detailed field and Publications 2009 – 10 ………………………………………………… 4 laboratory work enable Marcelo Simon and Colin Hughes to investigate the evolution of the Cerrado biome. Abstract of systematics thesis submitted in 2010 From our eighteenth-century archives, a Tiina E. Sarkinen …………………………………………………….. 5 collection of John Sibthorp’s undergraduate botany lectures is showcased, and Johann Student reports Dillenius’s ‘missing’ German lichens Systematics and Phylogeography of Cardamine hirsuta L. rediscovered. John Wood ‘finds’ Conan Elizabeth Cooke ……………………………………………………... 5 Doyle’s ‘Lost World’ in Bolivia. The evolutionary ecology of nickel hyperaccumulation in Alyssum L. Stephen A. Harris Curator of Oxford University Herbaria and related species Tom Flynn …………………………………………………………… 5 Cover images: Evolution of the Cerrado Plants from the Eastern slopes of the Andes Marcelo Simon & Colin Hughes …………………………………….. 6 including bromeliads like the spectacular Tillandsia rubella Baker (top right) in an Stryphnodendron fissuratum, a distinctive endangered tree of the South isolated patch of mossy forest at the tree American cerrados line; the colourful Guzmania squarrosa John R.I. Wood ……………………………………………………… 8 (Mez & Sodiro) L.B.Sm. & Pittendr. (bottom left); and the bright green flowers of Puya membranacea L.B.Sm. (bottom Andes to Amazon in search of Bromeliads right). It is not just bromeliads, but the cloud Steven Heathcote ……………………………………………………. 9 forest is full of beautiful plants, for example Eccremis coarctata (Ruiz & Pav.) Baker, an Molecular sequencing solves a taxonomic mystery endemic species of Hemerocallidaceae (top Elizabeth Cooke & John R.I. Wood ………………………….……. 11 left). All photographs on front cover by Steven Herbaria are the major frontier for species discovery Heathcote, see article on pages 9-11. Robert Scotland …………………………………………………… 12 Typesetting and layout of this issue of OPS Aglaia novelties from Papua New Guinea by Serena Marner Caroline Pannell ………………………………………………….. 14 The Lost World of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Department of Plant Sciences, John R.I. Wood ……………………………………………………. 15 University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford John Sibthorp: teacher of botany OX1 3RB, U.K. Stephen A. Harris …………………………………………………. 16 Tel. +44 (0) 1865 275000 Oxford Plant Systematics Research On the search for ‘missing’ lichen collections Group website: Ulrich Kirschbaum ……………………………………….……….. 17 http://herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk News from the Herbaria Oxford University Herbaria database at: Visitors, Fielding-Druce (OXF) and Daubeny (FHO) http://dps.plants.ox.ac.uk/bol/oxford Serena Marner ………………………………………………….… 18 Back issues of OPS can be viewed at: BRAHMS 6.9 May 2011 http://herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk/OPS.html Denis Filer ……………………………………………………..…. 19 2 Oxford Plant Systematics OPS 17 May 2011 News items this apparent pattern at the global level A new Taxonomy disguises a very poor level of detail at the local level. Even within global hotspot Library for Oxford regions, whether the Peruvian Andes, At the end of 2009 Dr Colin Hughes took Sumatra or the Cape region of South Africa, up a position as an assistant professor in the there are long horizons of botanically As part of the next stage in the creation of Institute of Systematic Botany at the uniform vegetation that is poor in rarities. an integrated library service for Oxford University of Zurich where he will continue Perhaps these regions should be where University, the main collections from the work on legume systematics and evolution. urban or agricultural developments are existing Plant Sciences Library were He retains a part-time link to the directed in order to reduce species’ successfully transferred to the Radcliffe Department of Plant Sciences in Oxford extinction. Conversely, between the global Science Library (RSL), the nearby central working on the Global Hotspot Initiative. hotspot regions there are isolated pockets of science library in autumn 2010. The endangered plant-life, as yet undocumented collections were merged with the RSL’s In 2009 Marcelo Simon was awarded the or too small to appear on world maps, but from the 1st October, in time for the new Brian Thomas Styles Memorial Prize in all the more important to conserve because academic year. All existing services recognition of his D.Phil. thesis on the of their isolation and tenuous existence. (including lending of books) continue to be Systematics and evolution of Mimosa Knowledge of hotspots at all scales available at the RSL. The Oxford Forest (Leguminosae) and the assembly of a facilitates selection of areas and methods for Information Service was also relocated to Neotropical plant diversity hotspot. This conservation or sustainable economic the RSL, and continues to collect world prize is awarded from time to time for an development. But, even when the global forestry materials in conjunction with CAB outstanding D.Phil. thesis in the subject area significance of small areas is well known to International. At the same time, Oxford of tropical or subtropical plant taxonomy. scientists, the detailed information and University Library Services was rebranded analytical tools that are crucial for sound as ‘Bodleian Libraries’. Colin Hughes visited Bolivia in November stewardship and practical management, or Taxonomic materials, which need to be to December 2009 in association with the for minimizing environmental impacts, are used in the Herbaria alongside botanical Darwin Initiative project - Conservation of often unavailable locally. specimens, have however remained in the the Cerrados of Eastern Bolivia – to deliver The research programme is an innovative Department of Plant Sciences, creating a a training course on legume taxonomy and global research project to explore, discover new collection which is now known identification and work with Margoth and publicise hotspots of plant diversity at formally as the ‘Sherardian Library of Plant Atahuachi on Bolivian Mimosa. local and national levels coupled with a Taxonomy – one of the Bodleian Libraries biodiversity awareness programme. Our of the University of Oxford’. The Rosemary Wise undertook a third trip to project will deploy and develop analytical Sherardian Library is housed partly in the Bolivia with John Wood in October 2009. tools, rigorous reports and user-friendly Herbaria and associated stack; a Reading Besides painting 30 plants to be promotional products to publicise facts, Room for study (accessed by swipe card) incorporated in new ‘Cerrado vegetation figures, maps and field guides at different has also been redeveloped in an area which posters’, Rosemary had three botanical scales, showing where hotspots of was originally part of the existing Plant illustrators with her, two from Bolivia and biodiversity are located and how to Sciences Library space. This new one from Argentina, to learn techniques of recognize them. The study areas focus on Sherardian Library continues to be open to water colour painting. the tropics and sub-tropics where major any member of the university, holders of a hotspots occur. In each priority area, one or Bodleian Libraries reader’s card and visitors Oxford University Herbaria was awarded more regional surveys will address by appointment. Accredited Status by the Museums, conservation priorities and threats at various With these moves there have been some Libraries & Archives Council in April 2010. levels. Alongside the many practical and library staff changes. Anne Marie Catterall This demonstrates the commitment of the applied benefits and impacts, the (formerly Anne Marie Townsend) is in Herbaria to manage its collections to programme will help answer more charge of the new Sherardian Library and nationally agreed standards, and builds on fundamental questions about why remains in the Department of Plant Sciences the previous Registered Status of the biodiversity is so unevenly distributed; how based in the Fielding-Druce Herbarium; Herbaria. hotspots of diversity are assembled and other library staff are now based in the distributed; and how they might respond to Radcliffe Science Library, but help out in The artist Sarah Simblet, who has been global environmental changes. the Sherardian Library on a rota basis. working in the herbaria, has published New data will be gathered from selected Roger Mills (Head of Science Liaison and Botany for the Artist (2010, Dorling countries using Rapid Botanical Survey Specialist Services) retired on the 31st Kindersley; ISBN-10 1405332271) which (RBS) methods and combining these with
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