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Cultivated Plant Taxonomy News 5 cultivated plant taxonomynews Issue 5 ■ August 2017 The new ICNCP Developments in Neosinocalamus 30 YEARS OF PLANT FINDER HORTAX CULTIVATED PLANT TAXONOMY GROUP CPT News ■ Why cultivated plant taxonomy matters James Armitage regulated, a process impossible without first EDITOR distinguishing and enumerating them. Recently I was fortunate enough to be invited to Culture. Cultivated plants are anchored to people, give a talk on behalf of Hortax at a symposium in places and events and, as with other artefacts of Berlin organised by cultivated plant conservation human history, worthy of study and explanation. charity Netzwerk Pflanzensammlungen. It is gratifying that I have the opportunity here to There is every reason to believe that this message thank my hosts for an enjoyable and illuminating is already gaining understanding and acceptance few days. and this issue of CPT News reports on some great progress for Hortax and the wider community of As is so often the case when I meet people cultivated plant taxonomy. Projects in the pipeline interested in cultivated plants, I was much include the relaunch of the Hortax website, the impressed by the unshakeable certainty in the importance of their work shown by my fellow delegates. How, I asked myself, might this individual conviction be translated into a collective message that could advance the Cultivated plants study and understanding of cultivated plants are anchored to in all aspects of their diversity. The answer, of course, is simple: clear and consistent people, places communication. and events. The study of cultivated plants takes many forms. Some people are interested in their appearance of a first volume of the Journal of classification, others in their cataloguing, Cultivated Plant Diversity and the hosting of a characterisation or conservation. Diverse as these‘ second European Cultivated Plant Taxonomists' disciplines are, the reasons why they are practised Forum, all major achievements for Hortax. and valued can be explained to the world in the same terms. Also in this edition, Dr John David gives an update on changes to the International Code of Biology. Plants in cultivation include unique Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants and Marco biodiversity and genetic combinations unknown Hoffman provides details of the publication of in nature, without consideration of which any two works helping to standardise plant names in biological system is incomplete. horticulture, while Junyi Shi, Yuxiao Zhang, Dequn Zhou and Jun Yao discuss five new cultivars of Ecology. Globally, the majority of people now live Neosinocalamus, as part of their exemplary work in urban zones where cultivated plants are the with the registration of bamboos. Please help dominant vegetation, forming ecosystems which circulate this newsletter by sharing it with your are unquantified and providing ecosystem services friends. ■ that are unqualified. Membership is entirely without charge. If you Law and logistics. Like other man-made would like to become a member of Hortax please commodities, cultivated plants are retailed and contact [email protected] 2 News Spectacular setting for VII International Symposium on the taxonomy of cultivated plants Singapore Botanic Gardens is to provide the beautiful backdrop to the next International Symposium on the Taxonomy of Cultivated Plants in 2019. Details are yet to be announced but a more fitting venue to discuss the importance of cultivated species of ivy are each described, the world is fed, they comprise plants than the renowned city with photographs of their native the major habitat-type in the within a garden could hardly be habitats, and a key to their environments where most imagined. The VI Symposium identification is provided. As well people now live, they are a was held in Beijing in July 2013. as the checklist, the monograph source of energy, essential includes accounts of nearly 200 in construction, landscape of the best cultivars, along with management, leisure and New monograph their versatile garden uses, each amenity. However, the illustrated with photographs. taxonomic work which allows on ivies us to understand this resource is The second in a new series Next in the pipeline is a without well-established outlets of monographs was recently comprehensive guide to into the academic literature. published by the RHS. A Wisteria, to be published in rhapsody on ivies, Hedera: 2018. This monograph will The requirement for a journal the Complete Guide explores explore the species, their cultural to meet this need has been the ecology, wildlife and significance, their often tortuous recognised previously and environmental value, and introduction to cultivation and in 2006 the first volume of innovative garden uses of the stunning range of cultivars Hanburyana was produced from this undervalued genus. Like available. It will also include the within the Botany Department Kniphofia, published in 2016, a most recent developments in of the Royal Horticultural Society complete checklist of cultivars molecular research on this genus. (RHS). A further six volumes of is included. In total, over 2,000 this journal were produced. cultivars, scientific names and synonyms are catalogued. The 12 Launch of new Four years after the last edition of Hanburyana, the journal taxonomic journal is being relaunched as a joint Cultivated plants are essential venture between Hortax and the Above. Gardens by the Bay, Singapore. to human health and wellbeing. RHS as the Journal of Cultivated Photo. RHS / Stephen Bennett. They are the means by which Plant Diversity. HORTAX 3 CULTIVATED PLANT TAXONOMY GROUP CPT News ■ Visit the new Hortax website A new version of the Hortax website is available now. More easily navigable and with a greater focus on news and events, it is the place to go for anyone with an interest in the classification of cultivated plants. The site structure has been simplified but retains all the information, advisory material and links to external resources as previously. Please visit www.hortax.org.uk and link from your own website. If you have any comments or queries please send them to [email protected] ■ Though there will only be a ♦ proposals to amend the small print run of each volume, International Code of Recent Publications the journal will be freely Nomenclature for Cultivated available to view online. Subject Plants Chase, M., Christenhusz, M., matter covered by the journal ♦ proposals to conserve names Mirenda, T. (2017). The Book will include: ♦ special edition conference of Orchids. London: Quarto. proceedings ♦ alien plants of horticultural ♦ studies on relationship and Leslie, A.C. (2016). The origin attribution International Dianthus ♦ checklists Register and Checklist. ♦ concepts and theories No fee will be charged to authors London: Royal Horticultural ♦ crop plants including land for publication. Society. races and crop’s wild relatives ♦ cultivated plant floristics If you do not receive copies of Matthews, L.J. (2016). Protea: ♦ garden inventories CPT News by email but would A Guide to Cultivated Species ♦ lists of registrations like to receive notification and Varieties. Honolulu: ♦ lists of standard specimens of issues of the Journal of University of Hawaii Press. ♦ monographic treatments of Cultivated Plant Diversity, please appropriate size write to hortaxgroup@gmail. McAllister, H., Marshall, R. ♦ new taxa com. If you would like further (2017). Hedera: The Complete ♦ nomenclatural housekeeping information about the Journal Guide. London: Royal ♦ opinion pieces of Cultivated Plant Diversity Horticultural Society. or to submit a paper please Above. Kniphofia rooperi. The contact the Editor in Chief Rukšāns, J. (2017). The World first ever checklist of Kniphofia ([email protected]). of Crocuses. Riga: Latvian was published in Hanburyana. Academy of Sciences. Photo. RHS / Katy Prentice. 4 ■ August 2017 Allen, should be changed to ■ European Kalmia Society [email protected] The link to their registration Changes for queries, while for sending page should be listed as www. registration material please use kalmia-society.org/registrar. [email protected] php?&lang=gb to ICRAs ■ American Peony Society ■ Gesneriad Society, Inc. The email for the registrar, Reiner The email for the Registrar, Jakubowski, is now registrar@ Irina Nicholson, is now ALAN LESLIE americanpeonysociety.org [email protected] ■ Arboretum Kalmthout ■ Heather Society A number of changes to ICRAs Foundation (Hamamelis) Registration contact details are have already accrued since the The contact details for the now The Honorary Secretary, publication of the 9th edition of Registrar, Abraham Rammeloo, The Heather Society, 84 Kinross the Cultivated Plant Code (2016). should be changed to Road, Rushington, Totton, Arboretum Kalmthout, Heuvel Southampton SO40 9BN, UK ■ African Violet Society of 8, B-2920 Kalmthout, Belgium. with an email of secretary@ America, Inc. Email: abraham.rammeloo@ heathersociety.org The fax number relating to arboretumkalmthout.be Saintpaulia registrations is now ■ Heliconia Society (+1) 409 839 4329 ■ Beijing Botanic Garden has a International (Costaceae) new link to its registration page: The contact details for the ■ American Hemerocallis (www.malusregister.org/Web). Registrar, David Skinner, should Society be changed to 1411 Lucy Street, The registration page link should ■ Blahnik, Ing. Zdeněk Tallahassee, Florida 32308, USA. be revised to www.daylilies.org/ (Lonicera) Email: [email protected] DaylilyDB/regform.php
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