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Newsletter No Newsletter No. 176 September 2018 Price: $5.00 AUSTRALASIAN SYSTEMATIC BOTANY SOCIETY INCORPORATED Council President Vice President Darren Crayn Daniel Murphy Australian Tropical Herbarium (CNS) Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria James Cook University, Cairns Campus Birdwood Avenue PO Box 6811, Cairns Qld 4870 Melbourne, Vic. 3004 Australia Australia Tel: (+617)/(07) 4232 1859 Tel: (+613)/(03) 9252 2377 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Secretary Treasurer Jennifer Tate Matt Renner Institute of Fundamental Sciences Royal Botanic Garden Sydney Massey University Mrs Macquaries Road Private Bag 11222, Palmerston North 4442 Sydney NSW 2000 New Zealand Australia Tel: (+646)/(6) 356- 099 ext. 84718 Tel: (+61)/(0) 415 343 508 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Councillor Councillor Ryonen Butcher Heidi Meudt Western Australian Herbarium Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Locked Bag 104 PO Box 467, Cable St Bentley Delivery Centre WA 6983 Wellington 6140, New Zealand Australia Tel: (+644)/(4) 381 7127 Tel: (+618)/(08) 9219 9136 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Other constitutional bodies Hansjörg Eichler Research Committee Affiliate Society David Glenny Papua New Guinea Botanical Society Sarah Mathews Heidi Meudt Joanne Birch Advisory Standing Committees Katharina Nargar Financial Murray Henwood Patrick Brownsey Chair: Dan Murphy, Vice President, ex officio David Cantrill Grant application closing dates Bob Hill Hansjörg Eichler Research Fund: th th Ad hoc adviser to Committee: Bruce Evans on March 14 and September 14 each year. Chair: Matt Renner, Treasurer, ex officio Marlies Eichler Postdoctoral Fellowship: on July 31st each year. Grants Policy Gillian Brown Public Officer Alexander Schmidt-Lebuhn Anna Monro Jen Tate (Council) Australian National Botanic Gardens Peter Weston GPO Box 1777 Peter Wilson Canberra, ACT 2601 Chair: Daniel Murphy, Vice President, ex officio Tel: (+612) (02) 6250 9530 Email: [email protected] Web presence ASBS Website: www.asbs.org.au ASBS Facebook Group Webmasters Viewable currently to any member of Facebook; Anna Monro permission to post by application to administrators. Australian National Botanic Gardens Administrators Canberra, ACT 2601 Australia Todd McLay, email: [email protected] Tel: (+612) (02) 6250 9530 Mike Bayly, email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Murray Fagg Cover image: Elaeocarpus sedentarius Maynard & Crayn. Australian National Botanic Gardens Leafy twig with clockwise from top: open flower, petal, Tel: (+612) (02) 6250 9561 sepal, proximal end of fruit, longitudinally sectioned fruit. Email: [email protected] Artist: Catherine Wardrop (NSW). With permission of CSIRO Publishing. Publication dates of previous issue Australas. Syst. Bot. Soc. Newslett. 175 (June 2018) ASBS Web site: 5 Jul 2018. Printed version: 13 Jul 2018. Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 176 (September 2018) From the President Taxonomy Australia conservation management and enable better Much progress has been made since the decision making. launch of the Decadal Plan for Taxonomy and A similar project for the mammal research Biosystematics (endorsed by ASBS). One of community is well advanced (Web ref. 2). GAP is the first pillars that needs to be built to enable very broadly inclusive with respect to institutions implementation of the Plan is the governance and and key individuals, and the early stages of the leadership organ – that is, Taxonomy Australia. constitution of GAP, its governance structures, This body has now been constituted, initially and its working groups are under way; a number as a program within the Australian Academy of of members of our community have participated Science where it will be ‘incubated’ until it can in one of more of the discussion workshops that feasibly be spun out into an independent entity. have taken place in Melbourne over the last year, There is a lengthy piece elsewhere in this issue and/or in the two established working groups that provides details of the intent and structure of (Wet Lab, and Bioinformatics). Here is not the Taxonomy Australia. Your friendly Society will place to go into great length about progress so continue to have a key role in driving the Decadal far. Rather, the project will be introduced to those Plan implementation phase through, at least, an not yet involved via a plenary talk at the Brisbane ex-officio role for the ASBS President on the conference, which will be followed up (I expect) Taxonomy Australia Steering Committee. with a written piece for the Newsletter. Suffice to say, engagement with the herbarium community Genomics for Australian Plants – GAP is central to the initiative to ensure that the We’ve all heard much about the Decadal Plan, outcomes are fit for purpose. The Brisbane but most will not have yet heard much about a conference will be a major opportunity to learn second major new initiative borne out of the more and get involved. plant systematics community – the GAP initiative (Genomics for Australian Plants Framework Data Web references Initiative: Web ref. 1). GAP began as a discussion 1. www.bioplatforms.com/australian-plants/ between BioPlatforms Australia (federally funded 2. www.bioplatforms.com/oz-mammals/ under the NCRIS, and of which the sequencing service provider we all know and love – AGRF Now available – complete set of back issues of – is a part) and the herbarium community ASBS Newsletter through David Cantrill (MEL). The driver for Members may not be aware that the complete set those discussions was an intent on BioPlatforms’ of back issues of the ASBS Newsletter are now behalf to provide significant new genomics available from the ASBS website. The scanning infrastructure (data or services) to support plant and OCRing of the issues produced in the old systematics (broadly writ). The key objectives of ‘hard copy’ days has been a high priority for the GAP are threefold: last few Councils. Thanks to Russell Barrett, who bit the bullet and did the job single-handedly, this 1. Sequence and assemble representative important task is now complete. On behalf of the Australian plant genomes across the plant tree Society I extend our sincere thanks to him. of life to enable better conservation, utilisation and understanding of Australia’s unique plant You’ll not be surprised to hear that I haven’t read diversity; every issue cover to cover, but if I had there would 2. Build genomic capacity across Australian no doubt be an endless stream of treasures to Botanic Gardens and Herbaria to create share with you. Perhaps an enthusiastic archivist- networks collaborating in the collection, type or historian of science will scour this digital management, dissemination and application of gold mine and share the shiniest nuggets with the genomic data for Australian plants; membership via future issues of the Newsletter. That [cue dull thud] is the sound of a gauntlet 3. Provide tools to enable genetic data to be being thrown down... used to identify and classify biodiversity at a range of scales and to use these tools to inform Web ref. www.asbs.org.au/asbs/newsletter.html 1 Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 176 (September 2018) Signing off will be in very capable hands going forward This year’s ASBS conference in Brisbane is judging from the nominees for the 2019 Council now only about seven weeks away. Because my positions. With a strong treasury, a healthy maximum allowable term will end at the AGM on membership, and several exciting initiatives now the afternoon of Tuesday the 4th, this is my last under way, it is an exciting time to be a plant report as President of this wonderful Society. It’s systematist in Australasia! been great fun, and rewarding. I know the Society Darren Taxonomy Australia report Introducing Taxonomy Australia This is the first in a regular series of reports on Taxonomy Australia will also continue the work Taxonomy Australia, a new body established our community started with the decadal plan. following a recommendation in Discovering The plan is high-level, visionary and a good Biodiversity: A decadal plan for taxonomy and foundation; it needs to be underpinned by nuts- biosystematics in Australia and New Zealand and-bolts implementation plans if its strategic 2018-2027 released by the Australian Academy actions are to be realised. Taxonomy Australia of Science and New Zealand’s Royal Society Te will develop these implementation plans, in Apārangi in late April (see Web ref.). collaboration with the community and its existing The aim of these reports is to keep the taxonomy bodies such as ASBS, the Society of Australian and biosystematics community well-informed Systematic Biologists (SASB), the Australian about Taxonomy Australia and its activities, Mycological Society (AMS) and the Council successes, opportunities, achievements, of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH) and challenges, and perhaps, occasional failures. Council of Heads of Australian Faunal Collections (CHAFC). First some introduction. Taxonomy Australia is an organisation established with two main roles Crucially, Taxonomy Australia needs to serve – to advocate for taxonomy, taxonomists and the taxonomy and biosystematics community taxonomic institutions, and to help achieve the and represent its interests. To that end, a Steering vision of the decadal plan. The medium- and long- Committee has been established with broad term aim is to facilitate substantial reinvestment
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