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ASBS Newsletter and in the • Lack of Understanding at the Higher Political Friends of the Adelaide Botanic Garden Gazette A usttzalian Svstematic ·. Botattl( .·.. Societv / Newsletter No. 105 DECEMBER 2000 Price: $5.00 ISSN 1034·1218 . AUSTRALIAN SYSTEMATIC BOTANY SOCIETY INCORPORATED Office Bearers President Vice President Dr B.J. Conn Bill Barker Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney Plant Bi odiversity Centre Mrs Macquaries Road Dept for Environment, Heritage & Aboriginal Sydney NSW 2000 Affai rs te l: (02) 9231 8131 Hackney Road fax: (02) 9241 2797 Hackney SA 5069 email: barry@rbgsyd .gov.au tel: 08 82229303 Secretary fax : 08 82229353 email: bbarke r@dehaa. sa.gov.au Mrs R.M. Barker Plant Biodiversity Centre Treasurer Dept for Environment, Heritage & Aboriginal Affairs Elizabeth Brown Hackney Road Roya l Botanic Gardens Sydney Hackney SA 5069 Mrs Macquaries Road Sydney NSW 2000 tel: 08 82229348 email: el izabeth_brown@rbgsyd .gov .a u fax : 08 82229353 email: rbarker@d ehaa.sa.gov.au Councillor Councillor Kristina Lemson Dept of Botany Bob Makinson Uni versity of Western Australia Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Nedlands, WA 6907 CSIRO, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT 2601 email: [email protected] email: Bob.Makinson@ea. gov.au Affiliate Society Papua New Guinea Botanical Society Australian Botanical Liaison Officer Public Officer and Membership Officer Dr R. Chinnock Mr A. Lyne Herbarium Australian National Herbarium Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB GPO Box 1600 England Canberra, ACT 2601 tel: 44-181-3325270 tel: (02) 62465508 fax: 44-181-3325278 fax: (02) 62465249 email: [email protected] email: [email protected] ASBS Web site: http:/ / www.anbg.gov.au/ asbs Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 105 (December 2000) ASBS INC BUSINESS David Eric Symon (carried forward from the last newsletter, where David's life membership was announced) David Symon at the ceremony being presented with the Life Membership certificate (top) a~d with Bob Hill, representing the long line of newsletter editors, beneficiaries of his contributions, and Robyn Barker and Barry Conn, who signed the certificate (bottom). Photos: Bill Barker 1 Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 105 (December 2000) From notes supplied by David. amongst which were revisions of the Australian species (Symon 1981b) and the New Guinea species David was born in London in 1920 and emigrated (Symon 1985c). He has published about 60 new to Australia as a child. His early life was spent on a names in the family. As well as the taxonomy of dry land mallee farm at Pyap, near Loxton, in the the group, David was keenly interested in the Murray Mallee of South Australia. biology. He documented dioecy in some species of Solanum (Symon 1970), considered dispersal of the He was educated at the Pyap Primary School to group (Symon 1979), pollination (Symon 1979), 1935. For some years he worked at the Lasscocks insect foragers (Anderson & Symon 1985, 1989) and Nursery in Lockleys, a suburb of Adelaide. During was involved in the surveying of the group for this time he did single subjects at night school to alkaloids. Australian Solanum species were get his matriculation. surveyed for the alkaloid solasodine at a time when a number of countries, including Russia and Having achieved his matriculation David then did subsequently Australia, were looking to this a Diploma in Agriculture at Roseworthy alkaloid as a precursor for the formation of Agricultural College which enabled him to do a hormonal steroids (Bradley et al. 1978, Ripperger et degree in Agricultural Science at the University of al. 1984). Adelaide. In order to achieve much of this work in After an Honours year he was employed as an Solanaceae a number of collecting trips were made, Agrostologist in the Agronomy Dept of the Waite in particular to northern Australia - Arnhem Land, Agricultural Research Institute. David considers Kimberleys, Pilbara etc., as well as two trips to the first years as "lost years" with the production Papua New Guinea. Collections from these trips of only three small, but interesting papers on are amongst David's 16000 numbered collections at heterozygosity in subterranean clover (Symon AD with many duplicated at CANB, K and MO. 1954), a hybrid swarm in Cassia (Symon 1955) and polyembryony in Cassia (Symon 1956). David was Chair of the Committee which organised the successful Nth International In 1957 he transferred to the position of Botanist Solanaceae Conference in Adelaide in September serving the needs of the Institute and, in part, the 1994 and attended the three conferences prior to Department of Agriculture. Duties included this. The first of these was in Birmingham in 1976, lecturing in many aspects of agriculture, weed the second in StLouis, Missouri, in 1982 following science and crop plant evolution. The Waite which David visited US herbaria in Los Angeles, Herbarium was greatly strengthened and the Waite New York, Chicago, Harvard, Cornell and San Arboretum developed with a coherent policy. The Francisco. The third conference was in Bogota in first of two large bibliographies on subterranean 1988 (see letter below). He presented papers at each clover was assembled (Symon 1961a and 1986d). of these conferences. In 1966 he published his first revision (Symon Other overseas visits in search of Solanaceae 1966), a revision of Cassia. The demonstration of included Paris and Russia. An earlier visit to the polyembryony in Cassia in Australia had given a Paris herbarium in 1963 had disclosed at least 20 possible clue to the taxonomic difficulties within closely strapped bundles of Solanaceae above the this genus and resulted in Barbara Randell Solanceae bays. This famously under-curated undertaking biological and taxonomic work in the collection was visited again in 1991 and most of a genus for her Ph.D. month was spent in going through this backlog, some of which had been waiting since 1836. At Problems with the identification of Solanum, least 800 sheets were identified and the remainder particularly the weedy species, led to an interest in sorted to genera to facilitate later visitors finding the genus and family and resulted in a long series them. It was on this visit that Ru Hoogland was so of papers (Symon 1970-1995, see bibliography), helpful. 2 Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 105 (December 2000) Dr M. Kirtsova attended the 1994 Solanaceae made substantial plant collections from northern conference in Adelaide and was one of the last of South Australia, Simpson Desert, Dalhousie the Russian workers developing Kangaroo Apple Springs, Musgrave Ranges and Pearson Island and as a field crop, a subject on which Gerasimenko has continued to participate in biological surveys and Komeva et al. had published extensively. With of the present Department of Environment & an invitation to visit Dr Kirtsova, David and Judy Heritage. had a holiday trip to Turkey and Russia in 1997. David visited Dr A. Baytop who had published on David's recollections of his first field trip: Turkish Solanaceae in Istanbul. Then to Moscow to meet Drs Kirtsova and Komeva. This included an My first field trip was in 1953 when the all too brief visit to the herbarium in Leningrad University of Adelaide funded an educational where the small holdings of Australian Solanaceae trip for C.S.Bauer, "Fred" Jessup, P. Madge, were examined and, more importantly, some of the P.G.Martin, G. Mayo, K.Phillips and D.Symon types of the many cultivars of Kangaroo Apple to Central Australia. In two vehicles we drove named by Gerasimenko were photographed. to Alice Springs, the Hartz Ranges, McDonnell Ranges, Ayers Rock and the Olgas. It was Laurie Haegi and Phillipa Horton both worked successful despite some tensions within the with David at the Waite Institute on Solanaceae, party and all remembered it to· their dying day Laurie on Datura and Lycium, later going on to a (only two participants still survive). This was Ph.D. in the Anthocercideae (completed in NSW), before my botanical career began and the plant and Phillipa produced an account of Nicotiana. collections were sadly inadequate. Considering University stringency these days is seems However David's botanical interests have always inconceivably generous. The only paper been much broader than Solanaceae. He has resulting directly from the trip was Symon published checklists of the Simpson Desert and (1955) on Cassia. Dalhousie Springs (Symon 1969, 1984c), papers on flowering pears in the Waite Arboretum (Symon . Since retiring in 1985 David has continued as a 1983d, 1991), and contributed to the Flora of Central volunteer and part-time worker at the State Australia (Symon 1981c), Flora of Australia (Haegi, Herbarium of South Australia. During this time he Purdie & Symon 1982) and Flora of South Australia has continued his work in Solanaceae, publishing a (Symon 1986b). He also published early on the number of new species and introductions (Symon food plants of Australian butterfly larvae (Symon & Swarbrick 1986, Clarkson & Symon 1991, Symon 1980a), on the use of words of aboriginal origin in & Kenneally 1994, Symon 1995d, Symon 1997h, the epithets of Australian higher plants (Symon Symon 1998a). He has also been involved in amino 1996d), and studied landscapes in the Art Gallery acid sequencing in order to determine a phylogeny of South Australia in order to ascertain the early of Solanum (Martinet al. 1986), became involved vegetation in the Adelaide area (Symon 1990c). with cladistic analysis (Lepschi & Symon 1999) and contributed to the development of an interactive David was heavily involved in
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