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Flora of the Guianas Newsletter N° 17 Special FLORA OF THE GUIANAS NEWSLETTER N° 17 The FloraFlora of the Guianas is a cooperative project of the Botanischer SPECIAL WORKSHOP ISSUE Garten and Botanisches Museum BerlinDahlem, Berlin; Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Cayenne; University of Guyana, Georgetown; Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; New York BotanicalBotanical Garden, New York; National Herbarium, University of Suriname, Paramaribo; Muséum National d'Hid'Histoirestoire Naturelle, Paris; Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Leiden branch, Leiden; and Department of Botany, Smithsonian, Institution, Washington, D.C. For further information see the website http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/FoGWebsite/in dex.htm. Washington, DC, November 2010 1 The Flora of the Guianas is a cooperative project of the Botanischer Garten and Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, The Flora of the Guianas is a cooperative project of the Botanischer Berlin; Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Cayenne; Garten and Botanisches Museum BerlinDahlem, Berlin; Institut de University of Guyana, Georgetown; Herbarium, Royal Botanic Recherche pour le Développement, Cayenne; University of Guyana, Gardens, Kew; New York Botanical Garden, New York; National Georgetown; Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; New York Herbarium, University of Suriname, Paramaribo; Muséum Botanical Garden, New York; National Herbarium, University of National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris; Nationaal Herbarium Suriname, Paramaribo; Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris; Nederland, Leiden branch, Leiden; and Department of Botany, Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Leiden branch, Leiden; and Smithsonian, Institution, Washington, D.C. Department of Botany, Smithsonian, Institution, Washington, D.C. For further information see the website http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/FoGWebsite/index.htm Flora of the Guianas Newsletter 17. Compiled and edited by M.T. For further information see the website Strong, Department of Botany, Smithsonian Institution, MRC- http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/FoGWebsite/in 166, PO Box 37012, Washington, DC., July 2011. dex.htm. http://botany.si.edu Flora of the Guianas Newsletter 17 (February 2011) Compiled and edited by M.T. Strong, Department of Botany, Smithsonian Institution, MRC-166, PO Box 37012, Washington, DC http://botany.si.edu 2 Contents Preface ......................................................................................... 5 New personnel ............................................................................. 6 Report of the 2010 meeting 1. THE MEETING PROGRAM ..................................................... 8 2. MINUTES OF THE ADVISORY BOARD MEETING ................ 9 2.1. Participants ........................................................................... 9 2.2. Opening ................................................................................. 9 2.3. Board personnel changes ..................................................... 9 2.4. Report by the executive editor .............................................. 9 2.5. State of affairs at the participating institutions .................... 11 B. Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem ................................................................... 11 BBS. National Herbarium of Suriname ................................. 12 BRG. Guyana National Herbarium, UG ................................ 12 CAY. Herbier de Guyane ...................................................... 17 K. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ........................................... 26 L. Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Leiden .......................... 28 NY. New York Botanical Garden, New York ......................... 33 P. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle .............................. 34 US. United States National Herbarium ................................. 35 2.6. Publishing Affairs ................................................................ 37 2.7. Next meeting ....................................................................... 37 2.8. Other business .................................................................... 37 3. MINUTES OF THE GENERAL MEETING ............................. 38 3.1. Participants ......................................................................... 38 3.2. Summary ............................................................................. 38 3.3. Memorandum of Understanding ......................................... 39 4. WORKSHOP, 5 November 2010 ........................................... 41 4.1. T. van Andel, S. Ruysschaert and S. Groenendijk: What makes a plant magic? Symbolism and sacred herbs in Afro-Surinamese rituals ....................... 41 4.2. Piero G. Delprete, R.E. Bone & G. Lolli : Progress towards a floristic inventory of the coastal savannas of French Guiana .......................................... 42 4.3. Laurence Dorr: Linnaeus and the Flora of the Guianas 43 4.4. Christian Feuillet: Taxonomic novelties in a few families and affinities of the Guiana Shield species ...... 44 3 4.5. Vicki Funk: Using biodiversity and systematics to understand evolution on the Guiana Shield .................. 45 4.6. Carol Kelloff: The Grammitid ferns of the Guianas ........ 46 4.7. Eve Lucas: Myrcia s.l. (Myrcia, Calyptranthes and Marlierea) in the Guiana Shield – taxonomy, conservation, the last decades and the future .............. 47 4.8. Scott A. Mori & Xavier Cornejo: E-flora of the Osa: A model for the Flora of the Guianas ............................ 53 4.9. Karen Redden, Patrick Herendeen, Anne Bruneau And Kenneth Wurdack: A tale of two hybrids: systematics, biogeography and diversity of Caesalpinioid legumes of the Guiana Shield ................ 57 5. POSTERS 5.1. Sewalem Mebrate, Karen Redden, and Gabe Johnson: Diversity and preliminary systematics of the genus Dicymbe (Leguminosae; Caesalpinioideae) ......................................................... 59 5.2. Bertrand Ndzelen, Karen Redden, and Gabe Johnson: Diversity and preliminary systematics of the genus Eperua (Leguminosae; Caesalpinioideae) ......................................................... 59 5.3. Tinde van Andel: Medicinal plants of Suriname ............. 60 5.4. Phillip da Silva: Mangroves in Guyana: What Species are there to conserve? .................................... 60 6. LIST OF REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS .............................. 61 4 Preface This issue of the Flora of the Guianas Newsletter is dedicated to the Workshop meeting in Washington, DC. in November 2010. It includes the minutes of the board meeting, reports of the participating institutions, memorandum of understanding, and abstracts of the presentations made during the symposium. The editor Participants of the workshop. From right to left Christian Feuillet, Eve Lucas, Piero Delprete, Dorothy Traag, Pedro Acevedo, Tinde van Andel, Odile Poncy, Marion Jansen-Jacobs, and Phillip da Silva. (photo by Allan Whitmore, during tour to the U.S. National Arboretum) 5 New personnel Sylvia Mota de Oliveira has joined the Flora of the Guianas team! She is funded for three years from the Alberta Mennega and Van Eeden Foundations and the National Herbarium of the Netherlands in L. She will edit treatments, beginning with the Dilleniaceae, and investigate funding and support for authors. Born in Aracaju, Brazil, she recently got her doctoral degree from Utrecht University, working with diversity of epiphytic bryophytes in the Amazon. Since beginning her studies, she has dedicated herself to botany, working with bryophyte phenology and population biology in the Atlantic forests of Brazil. During her Bachelor and MSc studies from 1995 to 2000, she participated in activities and projects of the Herbarium UFP -Geraldo Mariz, in Recife. Later she worked with hydrochemistry of small catchments at INPA in Manaus. At that time, her frequent trips to the forest brought her research interests back to botany. During her stay in the Utrecht branch of the National Herbarium of the Netherlands (NHN), she became familiar with the Flora of the Guianas project. Her dissertation work involved identifying many plants 6 from the Amazon region of Brazil, a task she found enjoyable yet difficult, considering there is no modern flora which covers the whole region. She is very pleased and enthusiastic about editing FoG and getting an opportunity to work among botanists tackling such an important issue for research in the Amazon forest: the production of floras. [email protected] 7 1. THE MEETING PROGRAM WEDNESDAY 3 November Informal welcome THURSDAY 4 November Board Meeting Agenda: 1. Participants 2. Opening 3. Board personnel changes 4. Report executive editor, Oct. 2010 5. State of affairs at the participating institutions 6. Publishing Affairs 7. Next meetings 8. Other business General Meeting Agenda: 1. Participants 2. Summary FRIDAY 5 November Workshop SATURDAY 6 November Sightseeing trip to United States National Arboretum 8 2. Minutes of the Advisory Board Meeting, 4 November 2010 (morning) 2.1. Participants Pedro Acevedo (US), Phillip da Silva (BRG), Piero Delprete (CAY), Marion Jansen-Jacobs (U), Eve Lucas (K), Odile Poncy (P), Benjamin Torke (NY), Dorothy Traag (BBS), Tinde van Andel (L). Apologies: Harrie Sipman (B) is retiring but new director Dr. Thomas Borsch is committed to continue to participation of the Botanical Museum of Berlin in the FoG consortium. 2.2. Opening Pedro Acevedo welcomed delegates and encouraged them to visit current exhibits at NMNH and other Smithsonian museums; Eve Lucas thanked Pedro and the Smithsonian
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