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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 24 June 2018 Foreword Herbaria are slices through plant diversity in Contents time and space, and long-term scientific investments with unexpected cultural value. Foreword Until recently in Oxford University Herbaria Stephen A. Harris …………………………………………………………..……….. 2 that slice was about 400 years. Through his research on a collection of specimens News overlooked for over a century, Sandy Awards and appointments, staff retirement and Blue Plaque unveiled to George Hetherington has extended that slice to about Claridge Druce ……………………………………………………………………… 3 400 million years. Using the earliest-known Polynesian sweet potato specimen (housed in Publications 2017 ……………………………………………………………………. 3 the Natural History Museum London), Pablo Muñoz Rodríguez and colleagues have Expeditions and visits …………………………………………………………….…. 4 determined the likely age of this important crop plant and reopened discussion of human Roots in the Palaeobotanical Collection migration patterns around the Pacific. Alexander J. Hetherington and Liam Dolan …………………………….……….… 4 George Claridge Druce, the Oxford-based pharmacist, politician and natural historian, What did the Garden grow? amassed a herbarium of several hundred Stephen A. Harris ……………………………………………………….………….. 5 thousand specimens; a snapshot of British plant diversity before 1930. Serena Marner Painting by numbers presents an outline of this controversial Rosemary Wise ……………………………………………………………….….…. 7 figure’s contribution to British field botany. His specimens contribute to baseline date George Claridge Druce’s career as a botanist upon which change in the British flora can be Serena K. Marner ………………………………………………………………..…. 8 investigated, as outlined by Keith Kirby. For herbaria to be records of current plant Some are born rare, some have rareness thrust upon them diversity in the future, new specimens must Keith Kirby …………………………………………………………………….….. 10 be acquired. High-quality plant collections, such as those made by John Wood during Is there no end to it? exploration of Bolivia, are essential. In the John R.I. Wood …………………………………………………………….……… 11 seventeenth century, the first keepers of the Oxford Botanic Garden made herbarium News from the Herbaria - Fielding-Druce (OXF) and Daubeny (FHO) specimens to support the lists of the plants Serena K. Marner …………………………………………………………………. 12 they were growing; greatly increasing the James Ritchie ……………………………………………………………….…….. 13 scientific value of their lists. Voucher specimens remain vital in modern plant Abstracts of systematic theses submitted in 2017: sciences research if data are to be objectively Completing the global inventory of plants – species discovery and diversity assessed by future researchers. Zoë Goodwin ………………………………………………………………….…... 13 Researchers applying modern technologies to address specimen-based questions need Do hotspots of species endemism promote novel lineage diversity? ready access to both herbarium specimens Cicely A.M. Marshall …………………………………………………….….……. 14 and their associated metadata. Denis Filer and Andrew Liddell explain how BRAHMS Ecological and evolutionary significance of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism in v8 integrates all types of natural history the montane genus Puya (Bromeliaceae) collections to enhance data accessibility. Juan D. Beltrán ……………………………………………………….…………... 14 Application of advanced technologies means pigments used in one of the Student reports: University’s greatest botanical treasures, Evolution of Ipomoea in the Neotropics Ferdinand Bauer’s Flora Graeca Tom Carruthers …………………………………………………….………….…. 14 watercolours, can be investigated. Rosemary Wise describes her role in this research, Plants as indicators in the UK countryside together with the methods Bauer probably Claudia Havranek ……………………………………………………………..…. 15 used to create his botanical masterpieces in eighteenth-century Oxford. Systematics of Ipomoea batatas (sweet potato) and its closest relatives Collectors who contribute specimens to Pablo Muñoz Rodríguez ………………………………………………………..… 15 herbaria have many different reasons for doing so. Yet once their specimens are Systematics of Stictocardia Hall.f. accessible within collections they start to be Alex Sumadijaya …………………………………………………………….….… 15 used in manners far removed from what original donors envisaged. As many of the BRAHMS: management of natural history articles in this year’s edition of Oxford Plant Denis Filer and Andrew Liddell ………………………………………….…...….. 16 Systematics show, the importance of an individual specimen may only become Department of Plant Sciences, University of oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, apparent decades after it was originally OX1 3RB, U.K. Tel. +44 (0) 1865 275000 collected. Oxford Plant Diversity Research Group website: http://herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk Stephen A. Harris Curator of Oxford University Herbaria Oxford University Herbaria database at: http://herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk/bol/oxford 2 Oxford Plant Systematics OPS 24 June 2018 News Staff retirement Publications 2017 Anne Marie Catterall retired in September 2017, after 35 years as the Librarian of the Awards and appointments Sherardian Library of Plant Taxonomy. Soon after her arrival in Oxford Anne Marie Biju, P., Josekutty, E.J., Rekha D., Wood, recognised the intimate link between the Many congratulations are due to the J.R.I. (2017). Strobilanthes jomyi library collection and specimens housed in following: (Acanthaceae), a remarkable new species Oxford University Herbaria, yet the library from South India. Phytotaxa 332(1): 075- was on long-term loan to the Bodleian Pablo Muñoz Rodríguez, D.Phil. student, 080. Library, following decisions taken in the has received this year’s Social Impact Award 1950s. Anne Marie’s considerable work to from Oxford Interdisciplinary Bioscience, Harris, S.A. (2017). Oxford Botanic reunite the library and plant specimens Doctoral Training Partnership, for the Garden & Arboretum. A brief history. transformed the value of both collections to publication of his recent paper on the origin Oxford: Bodleian Library. visitors; researchers could have the personal of the sweet potato: herbaria and libraries of some of Oxford’s Muñoz-Rodríguez, P., Carruthers, T., Wood, Muñoz-Rodríguez, P., Draper Munt, D., most illustrious botanists side by side. J.R.I., Williams, B.R.M., Weitemier, K., Moreno Saiz, J.C. (2017). Global strategy Among the manuscripts in the library were Kronmiller, B., Ellis, D., Anglin, N.L., for plant conservation: inadequate in situ those of Professor John Sibthorp (1758-96), Longway, L., Harris, S.A., Rausher, M.D., conservation of threatened flora in Spain. third Sherardian Professor of Botany, and the Kelly, S., Liston, A., Scotland, R.W. (2018). Israel Journal of Plant Sciences. Special watercolours of Ferdinand Bauer (1760- Reconciling conflicting phylogenies in origin Issue: New Thinking and Conceptual 1826), which were used to produce the Flora of sweet potato and dispersal to Polynesia. Advances in Plant Conservation 63(4): 297- Graeca (1806-1840). The Flora is the Current Biology 28 (8): 1246-1256. 308. University’s botanical treasure, and one of the world’s rarest botanical books. Anne Alexander (Sandy) J. Hetherington has Pennington, T.D. & Wise, R. (2017). The Marie has been instrumental in making this been presented with the Irene Manton Prize genus Sloanea (Elaeocarpaceae) in America. work more widely available to people than from the Linnean Society of London for the 432pp. David Hunt. ever before. In 1999, she organised a best Ph.D. thesis in botany examined in a UK Bodleian Library Exhibition on the Flora institution for an academic year. His thesis Wood, J.R.I., Vasconcelos, L.V., Simão- that transformed our perceptions of this was entitled ‘Evolution and morphology of Bianchini, R., Scotland, R.W. (2017). New work, and ensured the collections were lycophyte root systems’. He studied under species of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) from digitised and made available on the web. the supervision of Professor Liam Dolan, Bahia. Kew Bulletin 72(8): 1–20. Through her concerns about access and Sherardian Professor of Botany in the accessibility, Anne Marie transformed the Department of Plant Sciences. His research Wood, J.R.I. & Scotland, R.W. (2017.) Sherardian Library from a relatively poorly involved studying fossil lycophyte (club- Misapplied names, synonyms and new known collection to an internationally moss) roots in collections, including those species of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) from important research library. Academic found in Oxford University Herbaria (see the South America. Kew Bulletin 72(9): 1–26. researchers have benefited from Anne article on pages 4-5). Sandy is currently a Marie’s detailed knowledge of the collection, “Fellow by Examination” at Magdalen Wood, J.R.I. & Scotland, R.W. (2017). whilst students and visitors have been able to College, Oxford. Notes on Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) from glimpse some of the University’s botanical the Amazonian periphery. Kew Bulletin riches through exhibitions organised by On successfully completing her D.Phil. 72(10): 1–18. Anne Marie. Anne Marie’s dedication and thesis, Cicely Marshall, has been appointed knowledge of the Sherardian Library shows to a Junior Research Fellowship at King’s Wood, J.R.I., Nuraliev, M.S., Kuznetzov, the University’s specialist librarians at their College, Cambridge. This will be taken up at A.N., Kuznetzova, S.P., Scotland, R.W. very best. We wish Anne Marie
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