Al!1stral iaVJ S~stematic ~·· .·. BotaVJ~ Societ~ . NEWSLETTER No 69 DECEMBE~ 1991. Dodonaea heteromorpha West · Price: $5.00 Registered by Australia Post Publication No. NBH 8068 ISSN 1034-1218 AUSTRALIAN SYSTEMATIC BOTANY SOCIETY IN CORPORATED Office Bearers President Dr' J.G. West Australian National Herbarium GPO Box 1600 CANBERRA ACf 2601 Tel (06) 246 5113 Fax (06) 246 5000 Vice President Secretary Treasurer Dr G.P. Guymer Dr B.J. Conn Dr· D.B. Foreman Queensland Herbarium National Herbiuium of NSW National Herbarium of Victoria Meiers Road · Mrs Macquaries Road BirdwOod A venue INDOOROOPILLY QLD 4068 SYDNEY NSW 2000 SOUTII YARRA VIC 3141 _ .Tel (07) 377 9320 Tel (02) 231 8131 Tel (03) 655 2300 Fax (07) ~870 32-76 Fax (02) 251 4403. Fax (03} 650 59l7 Councillors Dr J.A. Chappill Dr J.M •. Powell Department of Botany National Herbarium of NSW University of Western Australia Mrs Macquaries Road NEDLANDS WA 60W SYDNEY NSW 2000 Tel (09) 380 2212 Tel (02) 231 8139 Fax (09) 380 1001 F~ (02) 251 4403 Affiliated Society, Papua New Guinea Botanical Society Australian Botantcal Liaison Officer Dr P.S. Short Royal Botanic Gardens Kew ~Richmond, Surrey. TW9 3AB. ENGLAND. Tel44-81-940-1171 Fax 44-81-332-0920 . Austral. Syst. Bot. Soc. Newsletter 69 (December 1991) 1 EDITORIAL This issue is actually being sent out before several years, which the current council decided to Christmas, which makes it the earliest that we've finally get to press. Naturally, they looked to their ever completed an issue. This was achieved by trusting editors for guidance, and we were silly simply ignoring all late contributions (except those enough not to look pointedly in the other direction. from the council, which are always chronically With any luck (and a lot of hard work), the remain­ late). ing parts will appear during the coming year. We have now survived a year in the editing For those of you who are interested, the first business, and we are actually to the stage where quotation from Mark Twain in the last editorial we don't cringe when other people look at the fin­ (about Napoleon shooting at an editor and missing ished product. This doesn't mean that we are and hitting a publisher instead) is apparently a ref­ necessarily pleased with the each issue, but simply erence to the death of Johann Palm. He was a that we have worked out how to produce them German publisher who had been printing subver­ without sleepless nights. We do, however, defi­ sive pamphlets, causing Napoleon to personally nitely cringe when Barry and Judy plead to have a order his execution. A much earlier commentary on late contribution put in, or suddenly change their this incident is provided by the English poet mind about an official notice. Thomas Campbell, who gave a toast to Napoleon at Anyway, we'd like to thank all of those people an author's dinner with the words:- who have contributed to the Newsletter over the 1 agree with you that Napoleon. is a tyrant, a past twelve months. The last four issues certainly monster, the sworn foe of our nation. But gentle~ haven't been any shorter than the previous ones! men- he once shot a publisher! Enclosed with this issue is the first of a multi­ -Notes and Queries part index to the contents of the earlier issues of the Newsletter. This project has been an on-going David Morrison (largely voluntary) effort by many people over Barbara Wiecek Pacific 2 Austral. Syst. Bot. Soc. Newsletter 69 (December 1991) ARTICLES Buddleja - Where is it in Australia? Barry J. Conn and Elizabeth A. Brown National Herbarium of New South Wales Introduction anthers inserted in the upper quarter of the corolla tube, barely included This largely tropical or subtropical genus 6 Inflorescence spike-like; fruit a capsule; occurs naturally throughout America, Africa, and leaves crenate-serrate 4. B. australis Asia. A few species have been introduced into 6: Inflorescence thyrsoid; fruit a berry; leaves Australia, being cultivated as ornamentals. Six entire 5. B. madagascarensis species appear to have become naturalized, some doubtfully. Insufficient herbarium collections mean Distribution that it is difficult to gain an understanding of the extent of naturalization for most of these species. 1. *Buddleja dysophylla (Benth.) Radlk. There is an urgent need for additional observa­ Native to southern Africa. In Australia it apparently tions, supported by herbarium vouchers, so that occurs as an uncommon weed of disturbed areas in the Flora ofAustralia treatment can be completed. Queensland. No herbarium material seen. We have included a key to the naturalized 2. *Buddleja davidii Franch. species, along with the known distributional data, Indigenous to China and Japan, but cultivated and in the hope of encouraging people to make collec­ often naturalized throughout the world. Naturalized tions of this genus. It is classified in the family in Queensland, New South Wales (including the Buddlejaceae or is included in the Loganiaceae. A.C.T.), and Victoria. Fourteen collections exam­ ined:- 8 collections by B.J. Lepschi from the Key A.C.T. (e.g. O'Conner Ridge, Lyneham, B .J. Lepschi 877; CANB) and neighbouring N.S.W. 1 Inflorescence a botryoid of globose head-like Other collections include:- N.S.W.: State Mine Hill flower-clusters 6. B. globosa road, 5 km NNE of Lithgow, B.G. Briggs 7172 1: Inflorescence paniculate, spike-like or (NSW). Vic.: Monbulk Road, between Upper thyrsoidal; never globose Ferntree Gully and Upwey, DA. Cooke 22000 2 Lamina of adjacent leaves joined basally (CANB); Mt Buffalo National Park, A. C. 4. B. australis Beauglehole 41684 (CANB). 2: Lamina of adjacent leaves not joined 3. *Buddleja lindleyana Fortune 3 Corolla tube short, up to 1.3 times as long as Native to China, Macao, Hong Kong, and Japan. lobes; stamens exserted 1. B. dysophylla In Australia it occurs as an uncommon garden 3: Corolla tube at least 2 times as long as lobes; escape, which is doubtfully naturalized in Queens­ stamens included (sometimes just exserted) land. Only known from one collection (DA. Goy 4 Corolla white, violet or purple; anthers J), which lacks locality details. inserted at or below the middle of the corolla 4. Buddleja australis Yell. tube, included Native of southern Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and 5 Corolla tube mostly curved, purple, 12-17 Argentina. In Australia it is an uncommon weed of mm long, 3.5-8 times as long as the calyx,_ disturbed areas in Queensland. Two collections with the outer surface densely glandular­ examined:- Qld: Ashgrove, Brisbane, C.T. White pubescent; leaflamina entire to coarsely & S.L. Everist, 6.viii.l934 (BRI); Simpson's sinuate-dentate 3. B. lindleyana Falls, Brisbane, Swarbrick 8648 (BRI). 5: Corolla tube straight, white to violet, or 5. *Buddleja madagascarensis Lam. less often purple; 6-11.5 mm long, 2-4 Indigenous to Madagascar, but widely cultivated times as long as the calyx, with the outer and naturalized in tropical and subtropical regions. surface glabrous; leaf lamina serrate to It is naturalized in Queensland, and possibly also in almost entire 2. B. davidii New South Wales, South Australia, and Western 4: Corolla yellow, orange or salmon-coloured; Australia. Eight collections examined:- Qld: Noosa Austral. Syst. Bot. Soc. Newsletter 69 (December 1991) 3 National Park, P.R. Sharpe 3830 et al. (BRI); Boat North Dandalup, G J. Keighery 110 I 0 (CANB ). Mountain, near Murgon, B.K. Braithwaite, 6. *Buddleja globosa Hope 7.v.1986 (BRI). NSW: Whian Whian, W.T. Jones Native to Peru, Chile, and Argentina. In Australia it 3521 (CANB); Taree, W.F.M. Straatmas 74 is an uncommon garden escape, once recorded (CANB). W.A.: Mounts Bay Drive, Perth, G.J. from near the Grampians National Park, Victoria Keighery 6241 (CANB); Golden Valley, 5 km E of (G. Cornwall G! 142189). Grass manuscript by C.C. Mez for Engler's "Pflanzenreich" Bryan Simon Queensland Herbarium Introduction on whether types still exist (in B or elsewhere), and if not to ascertain from the descriptions, keys and In a recent issue of Grass Literature (9: 10 exsiccatae if they are synonyms of other taxa (1990)), compiled by Dr J.F. Veldkamp of the described since World War II. Furthermore, Rijksherbarium in Leiden, the attention of agrostol­ because of the narrow species concept used by ogists was drawn to the existence at the Botanical Mez, the possibility exists that some of his "new" Garden & Botanical Museum in Berlin of a manu­ species may only be fmms or ecotypes of esta­ script of grasses by Dr Carl Christian Mez (1866- blished and accepted species. 1944) for Adolf Engler's Das Pflanzenreich. This treatise is the only grass manuscript to have been Summary of contents of the prepared for Das Pflanzenreich. Copies of the man­ manuscript uscript were available in exchange for 250 care­ fully prepared, fully documented and identified Genus No. of species herbarium specimens of extra-European origin, preferably grasses. Olyra 36 A copy of this treatise arrived at the Queens­ Burgeriochloa 1 land Herbarium recently, and I have been analys­ Diandrolyra 1 ing its contents. It consists of a partly type-written, Spinifex 6 partly hand-written manuscript of the tribe Pani­ Chaetium 3 ceae of 2,277 pages, photocopied on A3 paper by lsachne 76 staff of the Berlin herbarium. It has extensive Oplismenus 13 information on the Berlin holdings of the Paniceae, Echinochloa 13 on which it was mainly based, and which was Setaria 138 almost completely destroyed during World War II. Setariopsis 3 It is thus very helpful for interpreting the many Panicum 696 names based on much material that has been lost.