ASBS Newsletter

Contents

• From the President
•      Council positions.. . . . .1
•      ASBS-SASB 2017 conference. . . . .1
• ASBS Inc. business
•      Election for Council closing 13th November. . . . .2
• Eichler Research Fund reports
•      New Zealand Myosotis (Boraginaceae). . . . .3
•      Using next-generation sequencing to explore diversity in the Triodia basedowii species complex. . . . .6
• A postscript
•      Current Lucid keys. . . . .8
•           Triodia of the Pilbara — SpiKey. . . . .8
•           Accessing available Lucid keys — a global resource. . . . .8
• Current affairs in systematics
•      The Decadal Plan for Taxonomy and Biosystematics in Australasia. . . . .9
• News. . . . .10
• ABRS report. . . . .13
• Another postscript
•      Global online Floras. . . . .14
• Conference reports
•      XIX International Botanical Congress in Shenzhen, 17–29 July 2017. . . . .15
•      IBC outcomes: the Shenzhen Declaration for Plant Sciences. . . . .19
•      Genomics and Collections conference in Canberra, 12–14 September 2017. . . . .19
• Points of view
•      The time has come — or has it?. . . . .21
•      Do words matter?. . . . ..21
•      More accessible prose = more influence for publications. . . . .21
•      Tom Gauld’s cartoons. . . . .22
• Deaths
•      Joan Taylor (1929–2017). . . . .22
•      Peter Kloot c. 1945–18 June 2015. . . . ..22
• Coming conferences
•      Notice. 5th Oceania Congress Conservation in a changing world, Wellington, 2–6 Jul 2018. . . . .25
•      Systematics 2017: Integrating Systematics for Conservation and Ecology. . . . .26
• Notices
•      Participation for cultural heritage significance assessment of the NSW National Herbarium collection. . . . .26
•      Postal address change for Australian National Herbarium (CANB). . . . .26
• Items of interest
•      Automated identification of herbarium specimens. . . . .27
•      The mass extinction of scientists who study species. . . . .27
•      What the ancestral flower looked like. . . . .27
•      Mid Cretaceous fossil flowers — a second species. . . . ..28
•      Should Universities be wary?. . . . ..28
•      And should you be wary of which journal you submit to?. . . . .28
•      Journal of Ecology Special Feature. . . . .28
•      Ventenat’s names from the new flowers in the gardens of Cels and Empress Josephine. . . . .29
•      Angiosperm phylogeny poster. . . . .29
• Book reviews
•      A botanical cornucopia. . . . .30
•      Postcript: David Mabberley on Ockham’s Razor. . . . .33
• New books. . . . .34
• Chapter conveners. . . . ..39
• Contacting major Australasian herbaria and systematics institutions. . . . ..39
• About the Society and becoming a member. . . . .40
• ASBS publications. . . . .40
• About the Newsletter: contributions, advertisements and the Editors. . . . ..41

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