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Newsletter No Newsletter No. 149 December 2011 Price: $5.00 Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 149 (December 2011) AUSTRALASIAN SYSTEMATIC BOTANY SOCIETY INCORPORATED Council President Vice President Peter Weston Dale Dixon National Herbarium of New South Wales 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 Australia Australia Tel: +61 2 9231 8142 Tel: +61 2 9231 8171 Fax: +61 2 9251 7231 Fax: +61 2 9241 3892 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Secretary Treasurer John Clarkson Frank Zich Department of Environment and Natural Resources Australian Tropical Herbarium PO Box 156 E2 Building, J.C.U. Cairns Campus Mareeba, QLD 4880 PO Box 6811 Australia Cairns, Qld 4870 Tel: +61 7 4048 4745 Australia Fax: +61 7 4092 2366 Tel: +61 7 4059 5014 Email: [email protected] Fax: +61 7 4091 8888 Email: [email protected] C ouncillor (Assistant Secretary - Communications) Councillor (Assistant Treasurer) Ilse Breitwieser Pina Milne Allan Herbarium National Herbarium of Victoria Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd Royal Botanic Gardens PO Box 40 Birdwood Ave Lincoln 7640 South Yarra, VIC 3141 New Zealand Australia Tel: +64 3 321 9621 Tel: +61 3 9252 2309 Fax: +64 3 321 9998 Fax: +61 3 9252 2423 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Other Constitutional Bodies Public Officer Hansjörg Eichler Research Committee Annette Wilson Bill Barker Australian Biological Resources Study Philip Garnock-Jones GPO Box 787 Betsy Jackes Canberra, ACT 2601 Greg Leach Australia Nathalie Nagalingum Email: [email protected] Christopher Quinn Chair: Dale Dixon, Vice President Affiliate Society Grant application closing dates: Papua New Guinea Botanical Society Hansjörg Eichler Research Fund: on March 14th and September 14th each year. Australian Conservation Taxonomy Award: ASBS Website on March 14th 2012 and March 14th 2013 www.anbg.gov.au/asbs Murray Fagg Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Re- Cover image: Alloxylon flammeum (Proteaceae), search reproduced with the permission of Australian National Herbarium David Mackay (the artist) and RBG Sydney. Email: [email protected] Publication dates of previous issue Austral.Syst.Bot.Soc.Newslett. 147-8 (June–September 2011 issue) To be advised Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 149 (December 2011) From the President As we approach Christmas and the silly season, in Lincoln, New Zealand and organizer of the it is time to take stock of what our Society has excellent ASBS conference held there in 2010. achieved in 2011. My President’s report for Her research interests are in the phylogenetic 2010-2011, which is one of the annual reports systematics and taxonomy of New Zealand in the ASBS Inc. Business section of this issue Asteraceae and the development of a new of the Newsletter, covers developments up electronic Flora for New Zealand Higher to our Annual General Meeting, held on 25 Plants. As Councillor (Assistant Secretary), November 2011 at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Ilse will be taking on the special responsibility Melbourne. At the AGM, Frank Zich presented of keeping an eye on ASBS communications, his first Financial Report as Treasurer (see the and in particular, being the contact person for ASBS Inc. Business section of this issue of our “Opportunities in Plant Systematics” web the Newsletter), in which he showed that the page. Please email information on vacant Society is in good financial health. jobs, fellowships, scholarships and other relevant opportunities to Ilse at BreitwieserI@ The other main item on the agenda at the landcareresearch.co.nz. Dale Dixon, Frank Zich AGM was the election of ASBS Council for and Pina Milne remain in their Council positions 2011-2012. As members will already know, of Vice President, Treasurer and Councillor Secretary Gillian Brown and Councillor Tanya (Assistant Treasurer) respectively. Dale and I Scharaschkin stepped down from their positions both have one more year in our positions on at the AGM and were thanked with acclamation Council and we encourage all full members for their contributions to ASBS. They were to consider standing for these leadership jobs replaced by John Clarkson and Ilse Breitwieser, when nominations are called next year for who were elected unopposed to the positions of Council elections. Please contact either of us if Secretary and Councillor (Assistant Secretary), you want to discuss these opportunities. respectively. Most members will know John as one of our Society’s three Life Members ASBS is now offering early career plant and from his previous two terms on ASBS systematists more opportunities to fund their Council from 1993 to 2000 (as Councillor research projects than ever before. This issue of and Treasurer) and from 2002 to 2008 (as the Newsletter includes notices for two awards, Vice President and President). John has been applications for both of which close on 14 March a tireless worker on our behalf, the position 2012; both provide 12 months funding for a of Secretary being the only Council position well-defined part of a research project. Members that he had not already occupied. Most of will be familiar with the Eichler Research Fund, John’s research work would be best described which has been providing awards (now up to as weed ecology but he has managed to keep $2000) to support the research of successful up some projects in plant systematics too. He applicants since 1997. As the two rounds of recently published molecular evidence showing applications in 2011 resulted in only two Eichler hybridisation between native and introduced Awards being made, the fund is in a position to species of the grass genus Hymenachne and is offer more than two awards in the March 2012 close to completing a revision of the Australian round, so all early career members, particularly members of the genus Erythroxylum. John has research students, should read the information also been writing a series of field guides to on the ASBS website and consider applying for major plant groups of the Cape York Peninsula one of these. Note that applications for Eichler Bioregion, with Eucalypts published last year Awards are now welcome from non-Australian and paperbarks and tea trees (Melaleuca s.lat. members, thanks to Council’s decision to fund and Asteromyrtus) to be published in 2012. Ilse successful non-Australian applications from our Breitwieser is our Society’s first non-Australian general fund. The other award being offered for member of Council. She will be known to the first time next March is the more generous many members as the Leader of the Plant Australian Conservation Taxonomy Award, Biosystematics Team at Landcare Research which will provide $9000 to fund an Australian 1 Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 149 (December 2011) postgraduate student’s research for 12 months in Australia are also welcome and will be and attendance at the ASBS conferences in 2012 seriously considered. More information and and 2013. This scholarship is being funded by application forms can be found on the ASBS The Nature Conservancy’s Australian office web site. (TNC) and the Thomas Foundation. The funded project will contribute to Australian systematic Finally, on behalf of ASBS Council, I wish all botany and have conservation relevance. members and their families a happy Christmas Preference will be given to applications that and New Year break. We look forward to include taxa from TNC’s priority regions: the seeing many of you next year, especially at our Great Western Woodlands of Western Australia September conference in Perth. and/or Australia’s northern grasslands but applications from students working elsewhere Peter Weston ASBS Inc. business 2011 Annual General Meeting of the Australasian Systematic Botany Society, Inc. – Minutes 13.00, Friday, 25th November 2011, Mueller Hall, National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, Australia Meeting opened at 1.02pm 5. Treasurer’s Report Present: Peter Weston (President), Dale Dixon Prepared and presented by Frank Zich. This was (Vice-President), Frank Zich (Treasurer), his first report as treasurer and the societies first Gillian Brown (Secretary), Pina Milne under the new name. Full report to be printed (Assistant Treasurer) and 11 members were in in the ASBS newsletter (see Attachment 2) attendance. Proposed Frank Zich, seconded by Peter Weston. Carried with all in favour. 1. Apologies Bill Barker, Robyn Barker, John Clarkson, 6. Newsletter Report Trevor Clifford, Marco Duretto, Pauline The newsletter was 3-6 months behind schedule Ladiges, David Mabberley, Andre Messina, from September 2010 due to unfortunate series Peter Niesh, Tanya Scharaschkin (Councillor), of events, size of the job and lack of active Frank Udovicic, Annette Wilson (Public support from members. The editors are trying Officer), and Karen Wilson. very hard to get back to a routine of printing and publishing on schedule. 2. Minutes of the 2010 Annual General Meeting As Russell Barrett is currently on leave, Robyn Proposed that the minutes of the 32nd Annual and Bill Barker have kindly volunteered to be General Meeting (as published in The Australian guest editors for the December 2011 and March Systematic Botany Society Newsletter Number 2012 issues. 144-5) be accepted. Moved Peter Weston and seconded Dale Dixon. It has been noted that there are numerous Motion
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