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THE AUSTRALASIAN CARNIVOROUS PLANTS SOCIETY INC. CARNIFLORA NEWS A.B.N. 65 467 893 226 MARCH 2019 Nepenthes vogelii photographed at Leiden Hortus Botanicus. Drosera macrantha “Wongan Hills”. Photographed by Dr. Robert Gibson Welcome to Carniflora News, a newsletter produced by the Australasian Carnivorous CALENDAR Plants Society Inc. that documents the meetings, news and events of the Society. MARCH 1st March 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Brisbane The current committee of the Australasian Carnivorous Plant Society Inc. comprises: 1st March 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Canberra featuring Summer growing Drosera 8th March 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Sydney featuring Utricularia, Aldrovanda and Genlisea COMMITTEE APRIL 5th April 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Brisbane 5th April 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Canberra featuring Dionaea President - Wesley Fairhall 6-7th April 2019 - Collectors’ Plant Fair, Clarendon, N.S.W. 12th April 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Sydney featuring Nepenthes 22nd April 2019 - Royal Easter Show - Carnivorous Plant Competition Vice President - David Colbourn MAY [email protected] 3rd May 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Brisbane 3rd May 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Canberra featuring Byblis, Drosophyllum and Roridula Treasurer - David Colbourn 10th May 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Sydney featuring Cephalotus and Heliamphora [email protected] JUNE 7th June 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Brisbane Secretary - Kirk ‘Füzzy’ Hirsch 7th June 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Canberra focusing on greenhouse management 14th June 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Sydney featuring Carnivorous Bromeliads [email protected] JULY General Committee Member - Barry Bradshaw 5th July 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Brisbane 5th July 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Canberra featuring Bog Gardens and Winter Plant Maintenance 12th July 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Sydney. AGM featuring Winter growing Drosera AUGUST 2nd August 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Brisbane DELEGATE 2nd August 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Canberra featuring Cephalotus and Heliamphora 9th August 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Sydney featuring Pinguicula Journal Editor - Dr. Robert Gibson Sydney Coordinator - Wesley Fairhall SEPTEMBER 6th September 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Brisbane 6th September 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Canberra featuring Pinguicula and Utricularia Newsletter Editor - David Colbourn Sydney Coordinator - Kirk Hirsch 13th September 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Sydney featuring Nepenthes [email protected] [email protected] OCTOBER 5th October 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Brisbane Public Officer - Kirk Hirsch Brisbane Coordinator - Brent Jones 5th October 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Canberra featuring Nepenthes [email protected] [email protected] 12th October 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Sydney featuring Summer growing Drosera NOVEMBER Website Manager - Marina Chong Brisbane Coordinator - Vacant 1st November 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Canberra featuring Sarracenia 1st November 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Brisbane 8th November 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Sydney featuring Sarracenia and Darlingtonia TBA - Triffid Park open day Social Media Coordinator - Glen Moss Canberra Coordinator - Barry Bradshaw DECEMBER TBA - December 2019 - VCPS annual show, Collector’s Corner, Melbourne 6th December 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Brisbane Merchandise Manager - David Colbourn Canberra Coordinator - Christian Duffy 6th December 2019 - AUSCPS meeting - Canberra - Christmas Party and Plant Show [email protected] JANUARY Events Coordinator - Jeremy Aitken Canberra Coordinator - Robert Little 3rd January 2020 - AUSCPS meeting - Brisbane 3rd January 2020 - AUSCPS meeting - Canberra 10th January 2020 - AUSCPS meeting - Sydney featuring Dionaea (VFT) Seed Bank Manager - Ian Woolf FEBRUARY [email protected] 7th February 2020 - AUSCPS meeting - Canberra focusing on CP resurrections 7th February 2020 - AUSCP meeting - Brisbane 14th February 2020 - AUSCPS meeting - Sydney featuring Byblis, Drosophyllum and Roridula NEWS ROYAL EASTER SHOW CARNIVOROUS PLANT COMPETITION MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL The Australasian Carnivorous Plant Society Inc. is sponsoring the Carnivorous Plant Membership to the Australasian Carnivorous Plant Society Inc. (AUSCPS) is due now. competition again in 2019 at the Royal Easter Show in Sydney. Entry to the competition Membership to the Society is $25 per calendar year, or $35 if you require printed is open now and closes on Wednesday the 13th March 2019. journals with your membership. The AUSCPS is a non-profit organisation that promotes the conservation and cultivation of carnivorous plants in Australia and abroad. The Royal Easter Show will run from the 12th to the 23rd of April 2019. The Carnivorous Plant competition will be held on Monday the 22nd of April. The competition is a great way to display these wonderful plants to the general community and add a new dimension to the hobby with a bit of friendly rivalry. Plants can be shown under the eight categories tbelow with first prize winners receiving Membership entitles you to two editions of our journal, Carniflora Australis, subsidised $20 and second prize winners receiving $10 each. The Grand Champion plant with seed from our seed bank, discounts off books and other merchandise and access to sell receive a trophy: plants at meetings and fairs attended by the Society. A membership form is attached to this newsletter with instructions on how to make payment. CLASS 601 - Dionaea (Venus Fly Trap), single plant, in pot not exceeding 200mm. CLASS 602 - Drosera (Sundew), single species, in pot not exceeding 200mm. CLASS 603 - Nepenthes, single species, minimum 3 pitchers, in pot not exceeding CARNIFLORA AUSTRALIS 350mm. The March 2019 edition of CLASS 604 - Nepenthes, single hybrid plant, minimum 3 pitchers, in pot not exceeding Carniflora Australis, our bi- 350mm. annual journal, is out now. This CLASS 605 - Sarracenia, multiple crown single species, minimum 3 pitchers, in pot not edition features articles on: exceeding 200mm. CLASS 606 - Sarracenia, multiple crown single hybrid plant, minimum 3 pitchers, in pot Managing diseases in not exceeding 200mm. Sarracenia, CLASS 607 - Australian Native single carnivorous plant, single species, in pot not Travels in the Western Cape, exceeding 200mm. South Africa (Part 2), CLASS 608 - Carnivorous Plant, other, single species, in pot not exceeding 200mm. Orange flowered Drosera (S6080) - CHAMPION CARNIVOROUS PLANT menziesii variant, and All first prize winning Carnivorous exhibits are eligible. Spiders and cultivated carnivorous plants. ROYAL EASTER SHOW INFORMATION TABLE Contributions including articles, The Society will be manning an information table on Monday the 22nd of April. If you letters, photographs and would like to volunteer a few hours of your time and answer questions by people drawings to the journal are interested in Carnivorous Plants, please contact David at [email protected]. Entry to greatly appreciated and may be the show is free for volunteers. forwarded to the Society's postal address or on-line. Contributions to the journal may be submitted COLLECTOR’S PLANT FAIR on CD, DVD, pen drive or by The CPF will be held over the weekend on 6-7th April 2019 at the Hawkesbury email. Use Microsoft Word Racecourse. The Society is seeking volunteers to man the stall on Sunday the 7th from w h e n e v e r p o s s i b l e . F o r 9am to 3pm. Please contact David at [email protected] if you would like to volunteer. instructions on submitting photographs and diagrams please contact the editor ([email protected]). CEPHALOTUS - THE ALBANY PITCHER PLANT MEETINGS IN PERTH Redfern Natural History Productions will be releasing a book about Cephalotus in The AUSCPS has been informally seeking interest from members and friends in March. The book is limited to 500 copies and will be signed by the authors, Nick Kalfas, Western Australia to participate in the establishment of meetings in the Perth area. We Richard Nunn and Adam Cross. Pre-orders are available now for about AU$75 have received significant interest from people wanting to attend such meetings on a delivered. See the classifieds page for more information regular basis. The Committee has given approval to formally seek a team of members to find a suitable venue and commence monthly meetings under the banner of the AUSCPS. If you would like to be involved in the commencement and establishment of meetings in Perth, please contact David at [email protected]. GUEST SPEAKERS Initial feedback from our survey indicates you want more guest speakers. Whilst we are still planning the year ahead, we can confirm the following presentations: Sydney - February - David Colbourn - Growing Byblis and Drosophyllum Sydney - March - Greg Bourke - Utricularia Sydney - May - Greg Bourke - Heliamphora Sydney - July - David Colbourn and Glen Moss - Tuberous Drosera of W.A. Sydney - August - David Colbourn - Growing Pinguicula REVISIONS IN NEPENTHES FOLLOWING EXPLORATIONS OF THE KEMUL MASSIF AND THE SURROUNDING REGION IN NORTH-CENTRAL KALIMANTAN, BORNEO An expedition led by Alastair S. Robinson to the highest peak of the Kemul Massif located a number of different Nepenthes taxa, including the type populations of N. fusca and N. mollis, neither of which have been observed in situ since they were first collected in 1925. Studies of the type form of N. fusca show that two further species should be considered, one largely restricted to Sabah’s Crocker range —here reinstated as N. zakriana— the second a southerly distributed species from Brunei, Sarawak and Kalimantan, named here as N. dactylifera. Analysis of the type population of N. mollis indicates
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