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NEWSLETTER No AtAstv-aliaVJS~stevvo-rc BotaVJ~ Socie~ NEWSLETTER No. 85 DECEMBER 1995 Price: $5.00 Registered by Australia Post Print Post Publication Number. PP 545545- 0005 ISSN 1034-1218 AUSTRALIAN SYSTEMATIC BOTANY SOCIETY INCORPORATED Office Bearers President Dr. G.P. Guymer Queensland Herbarium Meiers Road ·rNDOOROOPILLYQld 4068 Tel. (07) 3896 9325 Fax. (07) 3896 9624 . Vice President Secretary Treasurer Dr. T. Entwisle Dr. C. Puttock Dr. P.G. Wilson National Herbarium ofVictoria Australian National Herbarium National Herbarium ofNSW Birdwood Avenue GPO Box 1600 Mrs. Macquaries Road SOUTHYARRAVIC3141 CANBERRA ACT 260 I SYDNEY NSW 2000 Tel. (03) 925-2 2313 . Tel. (06) 246 5497 TeL (02) 231 8158 Fax. (03) 9252 2350 Fax: (06) 246 5249 Fax. (02) 251 7231 Email [email protected] Email [email protected] Email peterwi @rbgsyd.gov.au Councillors Robyn Barker Mr. J. Clarkson Botanic Garden of Adelaide Queensland Herbarium and State Herbarium P.O ._Box 1054 North Terrace MAREEBA Qld 4880 ADELAIDE SA 5000 Tel. (070) 928 445 Tel. (08) 228 2304 Fax. (070) 92 3593 Email clarksj @dpi.qld.gov.au Affiliated Society · Papua New Guinea Botanical Society Australian Botanical Liaison Officer Public Officer and Membership Officer ~ Mr. R.O. Makinson Andrew Lyne Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Australian National Herbarium Richmond, Surrey. TW9 3AB. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research CSIRO . ENGLAND GPO Box 1600, Canberra ACT 260 I Tel. 44-181-940-1.171 Tel. (06) 246 5508 Fax. 44-181-332-5278 Fax. (06) 246 5249 Email [email protected] Email [email protected] Austral. Syst. Bot. Soc. Newsletter 85 (December 1995) EDITORIAL A New Year, a new President and a new cover unable to include everything in this issue. A first but alas no new editors for the Newsletter! for us as editors. We apologise for the delay in getting the The new President assures us that he will have December Newsletter out but our printer decided something to say in his "From The President" to go on leave- besides, with the silly season upon space for the next issue. This is putting him on us we seemed to have trouble getting our­ notice. selves organised. After the report by Ian Cowie that we had been underwhelmed with Newsletter From the editors, we wish all members a contributions we have now been inundated and successful 1996. ARTICLES NOMENCLATURE OF THE BOAB taxa' by Hewson ( 1982) in the Flora of Australia (ADANSONIA) treatment of the Capparaceae. Guymer subsequently identified C. gibbosa with Adansonia Terry Macfarlane1 and Gordon Guymer2 gregorii, and prepared an article formal- ising the new combination. This paper was 1. Western Australian Herbarium, c/- Dept. of never published and was abandoned. Conservation and Land Management, However, specimens in British herbaria had Manjimup, W.A. 6258 been annotated with the manuscript combination, 2. Queensland Herbarium, Meiers Road, with the result that Baum became aware of Indooroopilly, Queensland 4068 the earlier epithet and published the new combination. In a recent revision of Adansonia (Bombacaeae), Baum (1995) published a new The current edition of the International Code of combination, A. gibbosa (A.Cunn.) Guymer ex D. Botanical Nomenclature, the Tokyo Code, per­ Baum, for the Boab (or Australian Baobab) mits species names to be conserved against re­ tree. This tree occurs in the Kimberley region of placement for purely nomenclatural reasons by Western Australia and the adjacent part of the earlier names. Indeed the preface of the Code Northern Territory; it is the sole Australian quotes the resolution of the International representative of an otherwise African and Botanical Congress, which enjoins botanists to ac­ Madagascan genus. tively use the new provision to avoid disadvantageous changes. The re-naming of the It has been known as A. gregorii F. Muell. Boab is a clear case of a disadvantageous change: since 1857. The new combination is based on the displaced name, A gregorii, is well-established, the exhumed name Capparis gibbosa A. Cunn. and the displacement is based purely on the The latter name had been cited under 'Doubtful priority of the newly combined epithet. 2 Austral. Syst. Bot. Soc. Newsletter 85 (December 1995) A proposal to conserve A. g regorii against Capparis gibbosa and combinations based upon it, is now in preparation (Guymer and Wilson, in prep.). Therefore it seems advisable to await the resolution of the conservation proposal before taking up the new combination. References Baum, D.A. (1995). A systematic revision of Adansonia (Bombacaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 82: 440-470. Hewson, H.J. (1982). Capparaceae. Flora of Gc;cvnv~ 11 oDE L Australia 8: 207-231. REPORTS Mouse problem remains. Our co-publishers tell us that the Walt Disney organisation have Australian managed to tie up all machine case-binding plants in Australia (there are only 3 of them) with a bulk Biological binding contract of some 1.5 million volumes. This situation will continue until just into the new year, Resources so Volume 16 will only be available in soft cover version until January. A few case-bound copies Study will be bound by hand for lodgement in libraries in late November/early December to effect publication of the 70+ new combinations and taxa in the volume. FLORA OF AUSTRALIA Volume 16 will cost $64.95 in soft cover and VOLUME 16, ELAEAGNACEAE, $79.95 in hard cover versions, and treats 488 taxa PROTEACEAE 1 in 522 pages, with 96 colour photographs and numerous line drawings. It should be ordered from Minor delays in the printing process have meant CSIRO Publishing, PO Box 89, East Melbourne that Volume 16 had still not quite been published Vic. 3002 (payment by cheque, American as this note was being written. However we Express, Bankcard, Diners Club, Mastercard or confidently anticipate a publication date of no later Visa), from AGPS Bookshops, or from other ma- than the first week of December. One Mickey jor booksellers. Austral. Syst. Bot. Soc. Newsletter 85 (December 1995) 3 PARTICIPATORY PROGRAM GRANTS Mr H Streimann FOR 1996 Taxonomic Revision of the Moss Families Hookeriaceae and Daltoniaceae in Australia The ABRS Advisory Committee met in August $21,592 as usual to consider grant applications for the com­ ing year. Offers of grants have now been made, Dr JGWest and are listed at the end of this article. Of the 29 Generic Limits in Australian Rhamnaceae and research grants in Flora, 12 were for renewals of Flora of Australia Treatment of all Genera previous projects, and 17 were for new projects. except In addition there was the usual provision for Pomaderris support of the Australian Botanical Liaison $55,368 * Officer in Kew, and a contribution towards herbarium expenses associated with Flora of Australia loans. A total of $954,000 was Australian National University allocated to botanical projects for calendar 1996. As in past years approximately two thirds of Dr MD Crisp research grant money was allocated to vascular Revision of Daviesia (Fabaceae) flora, and one third to non-vascular flora. $37,739 * ABRp ONTHE INTERNET Dr MD Crisp Systematics and Biogeography of ABRS now has a presence on the Internet. Pittosporaceae in Australia Electronic copies of the last two issues ofBiologue $19,813 plus the Bioserve Gopher with other background information on many aspects of ABRS activities Professor JA Elix (including the Grants and Publications programs) Taxonomic Revision of Lichen Genus Lecanora can be accessed at http:/1155.187.10.12:80/abrs/ in Australia or http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/. At this stage $43,000 sorrie categories of information on the Bioserve Gopher are a little skeletal (or non-existent), but it DrKThomas is being progressively supplemented. Taxonomic Studies of Aquatic Hyphomycetes in Eastern Australia $3,400 * RECOMMENDED ABRS Dr CWeiller RESEARCH GRANTS FOR 1996 Flora and DELTA Accounts of Subfamily Bambusoideae (Poaceae) and Two Arundinoid Note* =new projects for 1996 Genera $28,081 * AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY Australian National Herbarium Unattached Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research Dr CF Puttock MrLACraven Generic Delimitation within Helichrysum s.l. Systematic Studies in Australian Myrtaceae and Related Genera $32,363 * $55,368 * 4 Austral. Syst. Bot. Soc. Newsletter 85 (December 1995) NEW SOUTH WALES SOUTH AUSTRALIA National Herbarium of New South Wales Unattached Mrs J Thompson Mrs RM Barker Treatment ofLeptospermum andNeofabricia for Revision of Sida and Abutilon in Australia the Flora of Australia $45,572 * $25,200 * University of Sydney TASMANIA Dr MJ Henwood Tasmanian Herbarium Astrotricha, Hydrocotyloideae and Apiaceae $60,000 Dr WM Curtis/Mr DI Morris Flora of Tasmania (Dicotyledons) $6,040 QUEENSLAND James Cook University VICTORIA Assoc Prof IR Price Institute for Horticultural Development Taxonomy of Siphonous Green Algal Genus Caulerpa in Tropical Australia MriG Pascoe $7,000 Taxonomic Revision of Genus Phytophthora (Oomycota: Peronosporales) Assoc ProfWA Shipton $19,703 * Taxonomic Studies of Family Saprolegniaceae and Order Leptomitales in Tropical Australia Royal Botanic Gardens, Victoria $21,961 Mr MF Duretto Queensland Herbarium Systematic Studies in Boronia (Rutaceae) $37,192 DrGPGuymer Revision of 11 Genera of Myrtoideae (M yrtaceae) $48,407 * Mrs AE Holland Revision of Crotalaria L. (Fabaceae) in Australia $18,140 * University of Queensland Dr JA Phillips Taxonomic Investigations on Selected Genera of Dictyotales (Phaeophyta) $61,312 Austral. Syst. Bot. Soc. Newsletter 85 (December 1995) 5 Dr TJ Entwisle Taxonomic Revision
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