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BioSystematics Berlin 2011 21 – 27 February 2011 Programme and Abstracts 7th International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology (ICSEB VII) 12th Annual Meeting of the Society of Biological Systematics (Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik, GfBS) 20th International Symposium “Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology” of the German Botanical Society (DBG) This work is protected by German Intellectual Property Right Law. It is also available as an Open Access version through the congress homepage (www.biosyst-berlin-2011.de). Users of the free online version are invited to read, download and distribute it. Users may also print a small number of copies for educational or private use. Selling print versions of the online book is not permitted. Nomenclatural disclaimer: This work is not issued for the purpose of biological nomenclature under any of the existing biological Codes. This is to make sure that names of organisms in this work, whose specific use might imply a formal nomenclatural act (e.g., new combinations, new names), do not enter biological nomenclature unintentionally and pre-empt intended publication in another work. Cover and congress design: Nils Hoff, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. Digital print: 15 Grad Druckproduktion, Berlin (http://www.15grad.de) Edited by (in alphabetical order): Thomas Borsch, Peter Giere, Jana Hoffmann, Regine Jahn, Cornelia Löhne, Birgit Nordt, Michael Ohl Published by the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. ISBN: 978-3-921800-68-3 2 Contents ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ....................................................................... 4 WELCOME .................................................................................................. 5 PARTNERS AND SPONSORS ................................................................... 7 AWARDS ..................................................................................................... 8 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME .................................................................. 9 ABSTRACTS ............................................................................................. 31 LIST OF POSTERS ..................................................................................403 AUTHOR INDEX ......................................................................................419 3 Organizing Committee (in alphabetical order) Prof. Dr. Dirk Albach - Speaker of the Section of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology of the German Botanical Society (DBG); Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences. Prof. Dr. Thomas Borsch – President of the International Organization for Systematic and Evolutionary Biology (IOSEB); Freie Universität Berlin, Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem (BGBM). Dr. Peter Giere - Speaker of the GfBS Curators Group; Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity at the Humboldt University Berlin (MfN). Prof. Dr. Werner Greuter - IOSEB Council Member; BGBM. Dr. Christoph Häuser – Scientific Coordinator; MfN. Jana Hoffmann - Speaker of the GfBS Young Systematists. MfN. Dr. Regine Jahn – President of the Society of Biological Systematics (GfBS), Secretary General of IOSEB; BGBM. Dr. Cornelia Löhne – Scientific Coordinator; BGBM. Dr. Diana Mutz – Coordinator of Dahlem Centre of Plant Sciences (DCPS); Freie Universität Berlin. Birgit Nordt – Congress Secretary; BGBM. PD Dr. Michael Ohl - Secretary General of GfBS; MfN. 4 Participants of the BioSystematics Berlin 2011: Welcome to Berlin! With more than 600 participants from 55 countries presenting more than 570 contributions (10 plenaries, 300 talks in 50 Symposia, 250 Poster und a „Software Bazaar“), we are looking forward to five days of intensive work and discussion. This great interest in an International Congress on Evolutionary and Systematic Biology encompassing all groups of organisms reflects the growing significance of this field of research. The five major conference topics – Trends in Taxonomy, Evolution of Organisms in Time and Space, Evolution of Form and Function, The Evolutionary Thought: History, Philosophy and Society, Inventorying and Managing Biodiversity – are of fundamental importance in the current discussion on new and integrative approaches in evolutionary biology and systematics, as well as in biodiversity research. This includes assessing and managing the diversity of organisms on our planet, illuminating the history that has led to this diversity, and understanding the mechanisms that shape the evolution of organisms. Biosystematics is the basis for all these topics which require a precise understanding of species as the structural units of biodiversity. The need to sustainably conserve and manage biological diversity is now widely recognized in society. But there needs to be urgent action taken: An evaluation of the 2010 targets made it clear that more has to be done to halt loss of biodiversity. Our research provides tools needed to support such urgently needed measures. The change in biodiversity patterns is having great impact locally but can only be understood and solved globally. The Congress Biosystematics 2011 is organized in close cooperation between the International Organization of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology (IOSEB), the Society for Biological Systematics (GfBS), and the 5 Section of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology of the German Botanical Society (DBG). We are especially pleased that twenty years after the unification of Berlin (and Germany), close collaborations between the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin, located in the South West, and the Natural History Museum at the Humboldt Universität Berlin, located in the former East of the city, has turned into normality. This congress marks the first jointly supported large event. We are very grateful to each individual of the Organizing Committee who spent many hours planning and organizing this congress. Wishing you all a very pleasant stay in Berlin and a fruitful as well as productive meeting with stimulating discussions, Regine Jahn and Thomas Borsch for the Organizing Committee 6 Partners and Sponsors We gratefully acknowledge financial and other support by Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany (BGBM) Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (MfN) Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Dahlem-Centre of Plant Sciences (DCPS) Center for International Cooperation of the Freie Universität, Berlin Biodiversity Heritage Library Europe Beta Analytic Ltd. BRILL Deutsches Meeresmuseum, Stralsund Elsevier GE / phoenix|x-ray Illumina JEOL John Wiley & Sons, Inc Oxford University Press Schweizerbart Science Publishers Springer Verlag GmbH Taylor and Francis Vifabio 7 Awards Winner of the Rensch Award of the GfBS I. Werneburg Winners of the ICSEB Student Award B. Bernardini P.R.C. Doddala F. Fernández Mendoza N. Holstein Ch. König E. Shevtsova A. Teimori E. Thanou V. Ung A.-C. Zakrzewski GfBS Student Prize for the best posters and talks Student presentations eligible for the GfBS Student Prize (marked with an asterisk * in the conference programme) will be evaluated during the congress by a selected jury. The three best oral and poster presentations will be granted the award. The award ceremony will take place Saturday, 26 February 2011, at 3 p.m. (‘Closing and Bestowal of GfBS Student Prizes’). 8 Conference Programme Please refer to registration desk for updates! Congress Venues The whole programme on Monday, 21 Feb 2011, will take place at the Museum of Natural History (Museum für Naturkunde, MfN, Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin) The main congress venue for the programme starting on Tuesday, 22 Feb 2011, including all presentations, is at the Seminaris Conference Center (Takustr. 39, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem). The Social Evening with Promenade Concert and Buffet Dinner will take place in the Greenhouses of the Botanic Garden in Berlin-Dahlem. Please refer to the registration desk for venues of post-congress workshops and excursions. 9 10 Monday, 21 Feb 2011 Please Note: The whole programme on Monday, 21 Feb, will take place at the Museum of Natural History (Museum für Naturkunde, MfN, Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin) 13:00 – 17:00 Executive Committee Meeting of GfBS (MfN) 13:00 – 18:00 Special Symposium (by pre-registration only): Recent aspects in the collection management of natural history wet collections – Schuda, M. & Neuhaus, B. Lecture Hall HS 201, Museum of Natural History, Berlin Introduction 13.00h Bartsch, P. (MfN Berlin): Welcome and general introduction to the programme 13.10h Neuhaus, B. (MfN History Berlin): The wet collections of the Museum of Natural History Berlin: specific problems and the KUR project 13:35h Curators (MfN History Berlin): Guided tour: rebuilding the East Wing of the Museum of Natural History Berlin as storage for the wet collections Ethanol & Jars 14.35h Kotrba, M. (Bavarian State Collection for Zoology, Munich): PH in ethanol preserved natural history collections - an intricate and problematic issue 15.00h Neuhaus, B. (MfN Berlin): Jars in wet collections 15.25h General discussion 15.45h Tea break Labels, Paper Aging & Label Printing 16.15h Schuda, M. (MfN Berlin): Labels in wet collections: what do alternatives to paper offer? 16.40h Schönbohm, D. (Berlin): Considerations in the conservation
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    Plant Systematics and Evolution (2020) 306:7 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-020-01633-3 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Phylogenetic placement of Ivodea and biogeographic afnities of Malagasy Rutaceae Marc S. Appelhans1,2 · Jun Wen2 Received: 6 December 2018 / Accepted: 8 January 2020 / Published online: 1 February 2020 © The Author(s) 2020 Abstract The genus Ivodea is endemic to Madagascar and the Comoros and consists of 30 species. This study is the frst to include the genus in a molecular phylogenetic analysis. We sequenced the plastid trnL–trnF and the nuclear ITS regions for three Ivodea species and revealed that the genus is monophyletic and most closely related to the African and Malagasy Vepris, refuting earlier suggestions of a close relationship between Ivodea and the Asian, Malesian, Australasian and Pacifc genera Euodia and Melicope. Ivodea and Vepris provide another example of closely related pairs of Rutaceous groups that have drupaceous and capsular/follicular fruits, respectively, thus further confrming that fruit types are not suited to delimit sub- families in Rutaceae, as has often been done in the past. Ivodea was the last of the seven Malagasy genera to be included in the Rutaceae phylogeny, making it possible to conduct an assessment of biogeographic afnities of the genera that occur on the island. Our assessments based on sister-group relationships suggest that the eight lineages (representing seven genera) of Malagasy Rutaceae either have African or have Asian afnities. Two lineages have an African origin, and one lineage has an Asian origin. Taxon sampling is insufcient to interpret the directionality of dispersal events in the remaining lineages.
  • Flowering Plants

    Flowering Plants

    Thonner’s analytical key to the families of flowering plants R. Geesink A.J.M. Leeuwenberg C.E. Ridsdale J.F. Veldkamp PUDOC, Centre for Agricultural Leiden University Press Publishing and Documentation The Hague/Boston/London, Wageningen, 1981 1981 R. Geesink-Rijksherbarium, Leiden, Netherlands A. J. M. - Laboratorium Planten- Leeuwenberg voor Plantensystematiek en geografie, Agricultural University, Wageningen, Netherlands C. E. Ridsdale-B. A. Krukoff Botanist of Malesian Botany, Rijksherbarium, Leiden, Netherlands J. F. Veldkamp-Rijksherbarium, Leiden, Netherlands This volume is listed in the Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data This is a translated and revised edition of: Anleitung zum Bestimmen der Familien der Bliitenpflanzen, 2nd. ed. 1917, Friedlander, Berlin ISBN 90-6021-479-X ISBN 90 - 6021-462- 5 (series Leiden University Press) © Centre for agricultural publishing and documentation, PUDOC, Wageningen 1981 and Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague, 1981 stored All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, P.O. Box 566, 2501 CN The Hague, The Netherlands, and PUDOC, P.O. Box 4, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands Printed in the Netherlands Contents Preface to the2nd edition (1917) vii Introduction viii Acknowledgements x Franz Thonner-Life (1863-1928) xii Franz Thonner-Bibliography xv Franz Thonner-Derivedworks xviii Franz Thonner-Eponymy xx The Key - Introduction and Notes xxii Scheme for a diagnostic description xxvi Concise key to the major groupings 1 Key to the families 3 Glossary 198 Index 214 'All plants are hybrids, but some are greater bastards than others' Franz Thonner.