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Program and Abstracts AUSTRALASIAN SYSTEMATIC BOTANY SOCIETY Annual Conference Canberra 2015 Building Our Botanical Capital PROGRAM AND ABSTRACTS TABLE OF CONTENTS Venues & Map 3 Sponsors 5 Conference Organising Committee 5 Booklet Credits 5 Program Overview 6 Conference Program Monday 30 November 2015 8 Tuesday 1 December 2015 10 Wednesday 2 December 2015 12 Abstracts Oral Presentations 13 Posters 37 Index to Authors 41 Conference website: http://www.asbs.org.au/cbr2015 ASBS Annual Conference, Program and Abstracts, Canberra 2015 1 Notes 2 ASBS Annual Conference, Program and Abstracts, Canberra 2015 AUSTRALASIAN SYSTEMATIC BOTANY SOCIETY CONFERENCE Building Our Botanical Capital 29 November–3 December 2015 Canberra, Australia Venues & Map The main conference venue is the CSIRO Discovery Lecture Theatre on the CSIRO’s Black Mountain site, with the Discovery link room being used for displays and sales by various exhibitors. Associated events will be held elsewhere on the CSIRO Black Mountain site, at the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG), and The Australian National University (ANU) campus. Australian National Herbarium (Angiosperms) venue ne AthbourNor venue Discovery Centre ANBG CSIRO Ba eet rry Dr Australian National ive oss Str Herbarium ANU (Cryptogams) Clunies R Civic Garran Road Visitor Centre City ersidge Hill Liv eet trS University House Tu gg er an on g P ark ay way/Parkes W To Airport ASBS Annual Conference, Program and Abstracts, Canberra 2015 3 Notes 4 ASBS Annual Conference, Program and Abstracts, Canberra 2015 Sponsors The ASBS 2015 Conference Organising Committee would like to acknowledge the following organisations for their generous support of the “Building Our Botanical Capital” conference and associated events. Atlas of Living Australia http://ala.org.au Australian Biological Resources Study http://www.environment.gov.au/abrs Australian Network for Plant Conservation http://www.anpc.asn.au Bush Blitz http://www.bushblitz.org.au Centre for Biodiversity Analysis http://cba.anu.edu.au CSIRO Communications CSIRO Discovery Centre http://www.csiro.au/en/Education/ Community‑engagement/Discovery‑Centre CSIRO Publishing http://publish.csiro.au CSIRO’s National Research Collections of Australia http://www.csiro.au/en/Research/Collections Transport by George! http://www.transportbygeorge.com.au Conference Organising Committee • Logistics and Communications: Christine Cargill, Jim Croft, Brendan Lepschi, Anna Monro and Cath Reed • Science Committee: Lydia Guja, Sarah Mathews and Alexander Schmidt-Lebuhn Booklet Credits • Layout by Brigitte Kuchlmayr (Australian Biological Resources Study) and Anna Monro • Proof-reading by Catherine Davis (Department of Agriculture and Water Resources), Brendan Lepschi and Anna Monro • Cover design and map by Brigitte Kuchlmayr • Conference logo design by Alexander Schmidt-Lebuhn ASBS Annual Conference, Program and Abstracts, Canberra 2015 5 PROGRAM OVERVIEW Sunday 29 November Monday 30 November Tuesday 1 December Wednesday 2 December Thursday 3 December MORNING Symposium: Symposium: Symposium: Field trip • Collections-based science • Genomic data in plant • Integrated floras, eFloras, and systematics online keys Workshops Keynote Speaker: Keynote Speaker: Keynote Speaker: Vicki Funk Craig Moritz Ilse Breitwieser AFTERNOON Poster session Burbidge Medal presentation Symposia: Symposia: Symposium: • Assembly and visualisation of • Phylogenetics • Phylogenetics (continued) morphological data • Decadal Plan for Australasian • Species delimitation, new species, and Biodiversity Science cryptic diversity ASBS AGM Student award presentations Conference close EVENING Pre-conference registration Public Forum: Conference Dinner Memorial Ceremony for Hansjörg Free and mixer • Effective transition from science to policy? and Marlies Eichler “Interface” art exhibition launch 6 ASBS Annual Conference, Program and Abstracts, Canberra 2015 Sunday 29 November Monday 30 November Tuesday 1 December Wednesday 2 December Thursday 3 December MORNING Symposium: Symposium: Symposium: Field trip • Collections-based science • Genomic data in plant • Integrated floras, eFloras, and systematics online keys Workshops Keynote Speaker: Keynote Speaker: Keynote Speaker: Vicki Funk Craig Moritz Ilse Breitwieser AFTERNOON Poster session Burbidge Medal presentation Symposia: Symposia: Symposium: • Assembly and visualisation of • Phylogenetics • Phylogenetics (continued) morphological data • Decadal Plan for Australasian • Species delimitation, new species, and Biodiversity Science cryptic diversity ASBS AGM Student award presentations Conference close EVENING Pre-conference registration Public Forum: Conference Dinner Memorial Ceremony for Hansjörg Free and mixer • Effective transition from science to policy? and Marlies Eichler “Interface” art exhibition launch ASBS Annual Conference, Program and Abstracts, Canberra 2015 7 CONFERENCE PROGRAM Monday 30 November 2015 8:00–8:45 Registration/Set-up 8:45–9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks 9:00–10:15 Collections-based science 9:00–9:45 KEYNOTE PRESENTATION Vicki Funk, Collections in a phylogenomic era: more important than ever 9:45–10:00 Gill Brown, Crowd sourcing data entry at the University of Melbourne Herbarium 10:00–10:15 Liqin Wu, The measurement and source apportionment of Australian atmospheric lead depositions in archived lichen and fungi (1885–2010) 10:15–10:45 Morning tea 10:45–12:15 Collections-based science (continued) 10:45–11:00 Robyn Barker, Tales from the Type bay 11:00–11:15 Sarah Mathews, Global hotspots of conifer diversity 11:15–11:30 Peter Heenan, Biodiverse analyses reveal hotspots of endemism in the vascular flora of the New Zealand archipelago 11:30–11:45 Joe Miller, Spatial phylogenetics of the Australian flora at different scales 11:45–12:00 Peter Jobson, Botanical contributions of the Hermannsburg missionaries: then and now 12:00–12:15 Elisabeth Bui, Soil geochemistry patterns explain richness patterns of the Australian flora 12:15–13:15 Lunch 13:15–14:30 Assembly and visualisation of morphological data 13:15–13:30 Kelly Shepherd, Exploring floral diversity in the core Goodeniaceae 13:30–13:45 Nathalie Nagalingum, Semi-automated generation of morphological matrices: examples using the cycads 13:45–14:00 Peter Weston, A database of variation in floral characters in the Proteaceae, and implications for key questions in floral evolution 14:00–14:15 Matt Renner, Lobule shape evolution in Radula (Jungermanniopsida): one rate fits all? 14:15–14:30 Joe Miller, The evolution of Acacia traits through space and time 14:30–15:00 Afternoon tea 8 ASBS Annual Conference, Program and Abstracts, Canberra 2015 15:00–16:30 Species delimitation, new species, and cryptic diversity 15:00–15:15 Russell Barrett, The tangled web of Australian spider flowers: a multifaceted approach to understanding the evolution of the Australian Cleome clade 15:15–15:30 Ian Telford, Morphological and molecular data show Synostemon trachyspermus (Phyllanthaceae: Phyllantheae) to be a heteromorphic species assemblage 15:30–15:45 Karen Muscat, Phylogeny, biogeography and classification of Dianella (Xanthorrhoeaceae) — insights into global biogeography and new species for the genus 15:45–16:00 Melodina Fabillo, How many species of Tripogon in Australia — resurrecting or laying to rest an old debate? 16:00–16:15 D. Christine Cargill, The liverwort genus Riccia (Ricciaceae): building relationships to capitalise on Australian species 16:15–16:30 Ryan Phillips, Mismatch in the distribution of floral ecotypes and pollinators: insights into the evolution of sexually deceptive orchids 16:30–16:45 Break 16:45–17:45 ASBS AGM 17:45–18:00 Break 18:00–19:00 Public panel discussion: Effective transition from science to policy? ASBS Annual Conference, Program and Abstracts, Canberra 2015 9 Tuesday 1 December 2015 8:30–9:00 Registration/Set-up 9:00–10:15 Genomic data in plant systematics 9:00–9:45 KEYNOTE PRESENTATION Craig Moritz, Opportunities and challenges in next-gen molecular systematics 9:45–10:00 Todd McLay, Evolution of the Australian grass trees, Xanthorrhoea, using multiple next-generation sequencing techniques 10:00–10:15 Benjamin Anderson, Using genotyping by sequencing to resolve evolutionary relationships in a species complex of Australian arid zone grasses (Triodia) 10:15–10:45 Morning tea 10:45–12:00 Genomic data in plant systematics (continued) 10:45–11:00 Ed Biffin, Cryptic diversity and hybridisation in the sea grass genus Halodule (Cymodoceaceae) revealed by high throughput sequencing 11:00–11:15 James Clugston, Conservation genomics of Cycas calcicola (Cycadaceae) in Australia 11:15–11:30 Rachael Fowler, The genus Eremophila (Scrophulariaceae, Myoporeae) in Australia’s arid zone: phylogeny and biogeography using the chloroplast genome 11:30–11:45 Bo-Kyung Choi, Identification of phylogenetically useful loci for a shallow level phylogeny 11:45–12:00 Marlien van der Merwe, Can we use phylogenomics to date plant community assembly? 12:00–13:00 Lunch 10 ASBS Annual Conference, Program and Abstracts, Canberra 2015 13:00–14:15 Phylogenetics 13:00–13:15 Juliet Wege, Triggering new insights into a remarkable genus: the Stylidium phylogeny and pollination project 13:15–13:30 Endymion Cooper, Resolving ancient phylogenetic relationships in green plants 13:30–13:45 Cécile Gueidan, Molecular phylogeny of the tropical lichen family Pyrenulaceae: contribution from dried herbarium specimens and FTA card samples 13:45–14:00 Tanya Scharaschkin, Phylogenetics of Rottboelliinae (Andropogoneae: Panicoideae: Poaceae)
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