ASBS Newsletter

Number 121, December 2004

Contents

ASBS Inc. business
Hansjörg Eichler Research Fund....................... 1
Planning Families of Australian Plants – new perspectives Canberra 27 th July 2004....................... 1
ASBS Sales Officer....................... 2
Annual membership fees and Council nominations....................... 2

Articles
50 th birthday celebration of the Northern Territory Herbarium....................... 3
Note from George and Thelma Chippendale....................... 4
The types of Pomaderreae (Rhamnaceae) at the Botanische Staatssammlung in Munich ....................... 5
The Bokkara Creek of Leichhardt’s expedition....................... 8

Eichler Research Fund reports
Evolution and biogeography of the Australian Loranthaceae ....................... 9
Resolving the Euchiton traversii – Euchiton argentifolius complex using molecular AFLP technique....................... 10
The diversity of scleromorphic structures in the leaves of Proteaceae....................... 11
Floral development and systematic position of Arillastrum, Allosyncarpia, Stockwellia and
Eucalyptopsis (Myrtaceae). ....................... 12

Obituary
Geoff Tracey (1930–2004), a special friend of the Queensland Herbarium....................... 16

Retirement
Ken Hill retires on 13 th August 2004....................... 17

News
Position advertised for new national Australian plant census ....................... 19
Churchill Fellowship to examine European botanical specimens ....................... 19

Miscellanea
Appeal for Emergency Heritage Listing: Recherche Bay, Tasmania ....................... 19
(Advertisement from CHAH) Senior Scientist (National Plant Census) ....................... 20
Celebrating the botanical art of Louisa Anne Meredith ....................... 21

ABRS Report......................... 22

ABLO report.......................... 23

Book reviews
Declared Plants of Australia ....................... 25
Botanical collecting after Maralinga....................... 26

Book notices
A book on herbarium procedures ....................... 26
Reduced price for Monocots2 Proceedings....................... 26
Taxonomic Literature now available as TL-2 Online....................... 27
Publication of BPH-2 ....................... 27
Major revision: Aporosa (Euphorbiaceae....................... 27

Coming conferences
ScienceAlert – a new web site for scientific events....................... 28
The Third National Fungimap Conference April 29 th – May 2 nd 2005....................... 28
International Botanical Congress....................... 28
Australian Systematic Biologists and Australian Entomological Society joint Annual Meetings....................... 28
Native Grasses Association Conference ....................... 28

Items from Taxacom list server
Old books on the Missouri Botanical Garden Library site ....................... 29
Collaborative funding opportunity....................... 29
International Society for Phylogenetic Nomenclature (ISPN) ....................... 29
SLIKS - a new free interactive keying program....................... 30
Herbarium of Un iversity of Zürich online ....................... 30
An online interactive key project for bryophytes ....................... 30

ASBS Publications....................... 31

ASBS Chapter Conveners ....................... 32

Contacting Major Australian Herbaria and Systematics Institutions....................... 32

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