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Newsletter No Newsletter No. 146 March 2011 Price: $5.00 Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 146 (March 2011) AUSTRALIAN SYSTEMATIC BOTANY SOCIETY INCORPORATED Council President Vice President Peter Weston Dale Dixon National Herbarium of New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney Mrs Macquaries Road Mrs Macquaries Road Sydney, NSW 2000 Sydney, NSW 2000 Tel: (02) 9231 8171 Tel: (02) 9231 8111 Fax: (02) 9241 2797 Fax: (02) 9251 7231 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Treasurer Secretary Frank Zich Gillian Brown Australian Tropical Herbarium School of Botany E2 building, J.C.U. Cairns Campus The University of Melbourne, Vic. 3010 PO Box 6811 Tel: (03) 8344 7150 Cairns, Qld 4870 Fax: (03) 9347 5460 Tel: (07) 4059 5014 Email: [email protected] Fax: (07) 4091 8888 Email: [email protected] Councillor Pina Milne Councillor National Herbarium of Victoria Tanya Scharaschkin Royal Botanic Gardens School of Natural Resource Sciences Birdwood Ave Queensland University of Technology South Yarra VIC 3141 PO Box 2434 AUSTRALIA Brisbane, Qld 4001 Tel: (03) 9252 2309 Tel: (07) 3138 1395 Fax: (03) 9252 2423 Fax: (07) 3138 1535 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Other Constitutional Bodies Public Officer Hansjörg Eichler Research Committee Annette Wilson Bill Barker Australian Biological Resources Study Betsy Jackes Dept of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts Greg Leach GPO Box 787 Kristina Lemson Canberra, ACT 2601 Chris Quinn Chair: Dale Dixon, Vice President Affiliate Society Grant applications close: 14 March 2011. Papua New Guinea Botanical Society ASBS Website www.anbg.gov.au/asbs Cover image: Alloxylon flammeum (Proteaceae), Webmaster: Murray Fagg reproduced with the permission of David Mackay (the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research artist) and RBG Sydney. Australian National Herbarium Email: [email protected] Publication dates of previous issue Austral.Syst.Bot.Soc.Newslett. 144–5 (September–December 2010 issue) Hardcopy: 17 June 2011; ASBS Website: 15 June 2011 Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 146 (March 2011) From the President Firstly, it is my great pleasure to draw your home page. The purpose of this new page is to attention to the announcement in this issue of the disseminate information on advertised jobs, ASBS Newsletter by Secretary Gillian Brown scholarships, fellowships and grants as well as that the two special resolutions that had recently other opportunities open to plant systematists. been put to members, and for which a formal vote As well as having links to permanent, regular was held at a General Meeting held on 15 March opportunities such as the Hansjörg Eichler Awards, at the National Herbarium of New South Wales, this page will also feature irregular and one-off were both passed overwhelmingly. ASBS is now opportunities such as the notice that is presently the Australasian Systematic Botany Society there for the Second National Postgraduate and the rules governing the way that we change Training Workshop in Systematics, to be held at the Society’s rules have now been brought into the University of Adelaide from 25-30 September line with the legislation under which ASBS is 2011. If you are aware of any such opportunities incorporated. for which notices have not already been posted on The change to our Society’s name now makes this page, please email the relevant information us an international society, albeit one that is either to me or to ASBS Secretary Gillian Brown. still firmly rooted in Australia as a result of its ASBS Council was recently approached by the incorporation in the Australian Capital Territory Australian office of The Nature Conservancy and the fact that the great majority of our members (TNC) to administer a postgraduate scholarship in are Australian botanists. However, the name taxonomy on its behalf. The Nature Conservancy change sends a message to botanists based in New is a Non-Government Organisation with a mission Zealand, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji and New to “preserve the plants, animals and natural Guinea that we welcome them as members and communities that represent the diversity of life as potential office holders of ASBS. The change on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they to Rule 30(5)b will allow future ASBS Councils need to survive” (http://www.nature.org/aboutus/ to be reasonably responsive to changes in our visionmission/index.htm). TNC was established in Society’s environment without having to go to the the USA in 1951 and now has chapters or offices extraordinary lengths to which recent Councils in all American states and 31 other countries. It have had to go to achieve sensible and sometimes is perhaps best known for its impressive record mandatory rule changes. of conserving threatened habitats by buying and ASBS Council had to work hard to organise the managing land but it also invests a lot of money in ballot for these Special Resolutions and to ensure support of conservation-related scientific research that over 75% of financial members voted, as projects. ASBS Council is presently negotiating required by the old rule 30(5)b. In particular, this proposal with TNC and hopefully we will be Secretary Gillian Brown and Councillor able to reach a mutually beneficial agreement in (Memberships) Pina Milne, had to contribute many the near future. hours of their time to administer this process. I am The International Botanical Congress is fast very grateful to both of them for their hard and approaching and ASBS is formally involved with effective work and to all of the members who made the conference in several ways. Firstly, the Society the effort to participate actively in the running of is sponsoring two symposia: Sym104: Patterns ASBS by voting on the Special Resolutions, either and Processes in the Evolution and Biogeography in person at the meeting or by proxy. of the Australasian Flora (Organisers: Dr Maria Some of you may have noticed a new page Gandolfo and Dr Mike Bayly) and Sym083: that Webmaster Murray Fagg has put up on the A Perspective in Species Radiation – the New ASBS website called “Opportunities in Plant Zealand Story (Organiser: Dr Ilse Breitwieser). Systematics”. There is a link to this in the “latest As part of our sponsorship agreement with the news” column on the right hand side of the ASBS IBC we will be providing at least $6,000 in 1 Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 146 (March 2011) travel assistance to ASBS student members. July 2011 at the conference venue, The Melbourne Applications for students presenting a poster or Convention & Exhibition Centre. ASBS members oral presentation are now open and need to be with will get an opportunity to socialize together in one the Secretary by the 31st of May 2011. Further place at the ASBS conference dinner, which will details and application forms can be found on our be held at University House (The University of website at http://www.anbg.gov.au/asbs/student. Melbourne) on the evening of Friday the 29th of html. Professor Mike Crisp of the Australian July at 7pm. A three course meal will be laid on National University will be delivering the Nancy with drinks included, at a cost of $75 per person. Burbidge Lecture, “Evolution of the Australian ASBS members and other conference participants flora”, as one of the IBC plenary lectures. The can register for it through the IBC website (http:// ASBS Annual General Meeting will be held at www.ibc2011.com/Social.htm). 1.30 pm on the free afternoon of Wednesday 27th Peter Weston Articles Acacia and the IBC presents these views. The paper by McNeill & Turland (2010) explains the processes adopted Bruce Maslin W.A. Herbarium, Department of Environment in Vienna and recommends that the correct way and Conservation, Locked Bag 104, Bentley forward for those objecting to the outcome would Delivery Centre, Western Australia 6983. be to make a counter conservation proposal to Email: [email protected] again move the type. This recommendation has Most readers will probably be aware of the on- not been taken up and the scene appears to be going Acacia generic name issue. In a nutshell, set for an ‘interesting’ discussion in Melbourne. Orchard & Maslin (2003) proposed to change the Most recently Thiele et al. (2011) summarized the type of Acacia from an African species (A. nilotica) issues involved and concluded that (1) the “Vienna to an Australian one (A. penninervis). Following a process was fundamentally sound, and that robust debate in literature and elsewhere the matter continuance of this argument in its current form was assessed by the duly appointed committees is damaging to the international nomenclatural of IAPT (i.e. the then-called Committee for consensus”, (2) “that reversing the decision Spermatophyta1 and the General Committee) who except through standard processes would set a both recommended acceptance of the proposal dangerous precedent and would, in the long term, with the required 60% majority. The General encourage nomenclature by pressure group rather Committee’s recommendation was subsequently than nomenclature by due process” and (3) “the discussed at the Nomenclature Session of the 17th decision should stand and the world should move International Botanical Congress in Vienna, 2005, on”. These are sentiments that I fully endorse. and following a vote the recommendation was There are significant nomenclatural, and thus upheld; the matter was then ratified at the Plenary practical, consequences associated with the Session of the IBC and Acacia with a conserved resolution of this matter. type is now included in the Vienna Code. Details of this history are on the WorldWideWattle If the original Vienna decision is upheld then website (web ref.
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