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SABONET Mid-Term Review Living Plant Collections: Malawi And Newsletter of the Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Volume 6 No. 1 ISSN 1027-4286 March 2001 SABONETSABONET Mid-TermMid-Term ReviewReview LivingLiving PlantPlant Collections:Collections: MalawiMalawi andand ZimbabweZimbabwe GeneticGenetic ResourcesResources andand BenefitBenefit SharingSharing SouthernSouthern AfricanAfrican Herbaria:Herbaria: WindhoekWindhoek SABONET News Vol. 6 No. 1 March 2001 1 c o n t e n t s Features Regulars 14 5th International 3 Editorial ON OUR COVER: Platycerium elephantotis, an epiphytic fern, Chromolaena Workshop 4 Letters to the Editors growing on a riparian tree in the Luangwa Valley, Zambia. 16 Computer Viruses 46 The Paper Chase (Photo: Patrick Phiri) 17 SSC 10 50 Regional News Update 18 Database Management 56 E-mail Addresses Cover Stories Course 5 SABONET Mid-Term 19 Benefits of Data Capturing Review in Herbaria 22 Living Plant Collections: 30 GTI Africa Regional Work- Malawi shop 26 Living Plant Collections: 32 Plant Genetic Resource Zimbabwe Centre 3 Letters 34 Genetic Resources and 37 SABONET’s Students Benefit Sharing 37 SAAB Conference Abstracts 42 Southern African Herbaria: 40 Where Have All the Windhoek Flowers Gone? 44 Obituary: Willi Giess 48 News 14 Chromolaena 21 Plant Collections 25 Plant Collections 2 SABONET News Vol. 6 No. 1 March 2001 letter from the editors Newsletter of the Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Editors Stefan Siebert Marthina Mössmer EDITORS: STEFAN SIEBERT & MARTHINA MÖSSMER Design and Layout Antoinette Burkhardt ELCOME to the first issue of our new-look SABONET Vanilla Design Studio News! We are starting the new year with a new layout—a (27) 12 809-0318 streamlined design that packs even more information into our W Reproduction and Printing pages. The new SABONET News features a Letters column on page 4, so feel free to air your views, ask questions, or comment on articles. If you Business Print Centre (27) 12 349-2295 want to submit articles for the next issue, you will also find Instructions to Authors on page 4. Subscriptions Nyasha Rukazhanga-Noko In this issue, we include articles on the living plant collections of Malawi [email protected] and Zambia, computer viruses, the National Herbarium of Namibia in Website Windhoek, the triffid weed Chromolaena, and many more. Our regular www.sabonet.org Profile feature has now introduced all the National Coordinators to our readers; this issue does not contain a profile. Starting with the next issue, Submission of Manuscripts we will be featuring other prominent SABONET colleagues. Marthina Mössmer [email protected] The most important SABONET event in recent months was the UNDP/ See Instructions to Authors on page 4 GEF Mid-Term Review of the SABONET Project. The achievements of SABONET News is the official newsletter SABONET during 1996–2000 have been widely recognised, with our sta- of the Southern African Botanical tus as a flagship regional project being acknowledged by similar regional Diversity Network (SABONET). projects across the world. This achievement is due to the tremendous commitment of all ten participating countries of southern Africa. How- ever, UNDP/GEF regulations require more than global approval to deter- mine and evaluate the state of their projects. One of the major appraisals required is the Mid-Term Review of a UNDP/GEF-funded project. The SABONET aim of this assessment is to highlight the lessons learned and to deter- National Botanical Institute mine the way forward. See our article on page 5 for a summary of the Private Bag X101 Mid-Term Review Reportback presented in Windhoek, Namibia. Pretoria 0001 SOUTH AFRICA SABONET News was rated very highly: the evaluation team noted that Tel.: (27) 12 804-3200 Fax: (27) 12 804-5979/3211 SABONET News is widely read and appreciated and is a very valuable project output. It was considered an excellent medium for information SABONET News is published in March, sharing and for staff development. July and November and is distributed free of charge. During the next 20 months, participating institutions will be called upon Current number of subscribers: 1 600 to actively promote and drive our activities towards achieving outputs. Printed on recycled paper. By accomplishing this goal, we will be presenting the donor agencies This newsletter was made possible through with a measure to evaluate the capacity that has been built in the botani- support provided by the GEF/UNDP (SABONET cal institutions of southern Africa. is a GEF Project implemented by the UNDP) and the Regional Centre for Southern Africa, Gaborone, Botswana, US Agency for Interna- tional Development (Plot no. 14818 Lebatlane —Stefan Siebert & Marthina Mössmer Road, Gaborone West, Extension 6 Gaborone), under the terms of the Grant No. 690-0283-A- 00-5950. The opinions expressed in the newsletter are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the US Agency for International Development, the GEF/UNDP, the SABONET Steering Committee or the National Working Groups. SABONET News Vol. 6 No. 1 March 2001 3 letters to the editors [email protected] THANK YOU TO SABONET-NAMIBIA AND FLATTERED! single seed is sown, a single har- NBI I would like to take this opportunity vest is realised. When you teach the Prior to my first visit to Namibia to thank my extended southern Af- people, you reap a hundred har- and the Western Cape of South Af- rican botanical “family” for their vests”. So long live SABONET! rica in February and March 2001, I touching comments, compliments —SABONET Student considered the Namibian terrain and best wishes made in the De- and the northern cember 2000 edition of ORBEA IRRORATA sector of the West- SABONET News. I shall cer- In 5(2): 105, under Succulenta 2000, ern Cape to be ex- tainly try to stay as involved you ask about Orbea irrorata. This tensively covered as possible with the many is almost certainly just a variant of by Kalahari sands. dedicated and committed O. verrucosa and of no taxonomic This notion was members of our network significance. I will be dropping the drastically spread across southern Af- name in my forthcoming book changed after visit- rica. Stapeliads of the World, unless ing Namibia and I also wish Stefan Siebert all someone comes up with convinc- participating in a the best in managing the ing proof before then that it is a field trip after at- project for the next two years, valid species. I tried to persuade tending the Global and will endeavour to give Larry Leach to do so when he was Taxonomic Initia- him all the support I possibly revising Orbea—he felt that it might tive in Cape Town Patrick Phiri leaning can. I look forward to helping have been overlooked by recent in February–March against a quiver tree Aloe mobilise the botanical garden collectors, but nothing that has 2001! A visit to the dichotoma, a spectacular component of the SABONET floristic feature in the transpired since leads me to feel National Botanical Project in the months ahead. National Botanical Garden, otherwise. Did anyone come up Gardens of Na- Carpe diem! Windhoek, Namibia. with a sighting? mibia in Wind- (Photo: W. Mziray) —Christopher Willis —Darrel Plowes hoek and a three- National Botanical Institute [email protected] day tour of the Western Cape has South Africa certainly expanded my knowledge of phytogeography in southern Af- TRAINING COURSE rica. Thanks to SABONET-Namibia It was an honour to participate in for facilitating the SABONET Steer- the Herbarium Management Train- ing Committee Meeting in ing Course (11-29 October 1999), as Windhoek and to the National Bo- someone found worthy to be a tanical Institute for organising the steward of the floral treasure in field trip across the Western Cape southern Africa—in my days. I after a successful GTI Workshop. I know I am a debtor but strongly promise to call again! believe that I am going to be use- —P.S.M. Phiri ful; I will try my best to do so. University of Zambia Thanks for investing in me. Kuan- Lusaka, Zambia Tzu said, “If you are planning for a Patrick Phiri being persuaded to get See our article on the GTI Workshop on page year, plant a seed. If you are plan- closer to an ostrich in the Karoo, Western 31 and a summary of the Mid-Term Review ning for five years, plant a tree, if Cape Province, South Africa. Stunted report that was presented in Windhoek on you are planning for 100 years, then plant growth typical of the biome is page 5. Eds. teach or train the people. 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