ASBS Newsletter

Contents

• From the President
•      Brisbane conference. . . . .1
•      Conference Awards. . . . .1
•      Bob Anderson award. . . . .1
•      Wellington. . . . .1
•      Genomics for Australian Plants - GAP. . . . .2
•      Stop Press! Conclusion of the 2018 AGM. . . . .2
• Taxonomy Australia report. . . . .3
•      Taxonomy Education Working Group: initial survey. . . . .4
• ASBS Annual General Meeting
•      Australasian Systematic Botany Society Inc. 40th Annual General Meeting Brisbane meeting. Minutes. . . . .5
•      Australasian Systematic Botany Society Inc. 40th Annual General Meeting Adjourned meeting. Minutes. . . . .7
•      President's report. . . . .8
•      Financial report. . . . .10
•           Notice. 2019 Membership Fees. . . . .13
•      Newsletter report. . . . .15
•      Website report. . . . .16
•      Facebook group report. . . . .17
•      Research activities and grants program report. . . . .17
• ASBS Brisbane conference
•      ASBS conference 2018: Mind the Gap. . . . .21
•      Mind the Gap ASBS conference 2018 field trip. . . . .24
• Hansjörg Eichler Research Grant
•      Field study of the Celmisia Group (Asteraceae) in New Zealand.. . . . .27
• Articles
•      Echidna overboard: Georg Ritter von Frauenfeld, scientist on the 1857–59 world expedition of the Novara. . . . .30
•      Botanical collections from the Novara expedition. . . . .32
• ABRS report. . . . .33
•      State of the Flora of Australia 2018. . . . .34
• Palaeo pages
•      How do we make progress with Australian Cenozoic palaeobotany?. . . . .37
• Coming conference
•      ASBS-NZPCN 2019 Conference, Wellington updates. . . . .39
•      2019 ASBS-NZPCN Conference Charity Auction. Items required! Can you help?. . . . .42
• In a few words. . . . .42
• News
•      Awards
•           Ann Prescott OAM. . . . .43
•           David Mabberley – Thackray Medal 2018. . . . .43
•           Vicki Funk and Chris Martine – recipients of major ASPT awards. . . . .43
•           Andrew Rozefelds – outstanding paper award from JSE. . . . .43
•      Other news
•           New edition of tropical rainforest plants key. . . . .44
•           Digitisation of the NSW collection. . . . .44
•           New director for the Atlas of Living Australia. . . . .44
•           The need for conservation in urban environments. . . . .44
•           Megaphylogeny resolves global patterns of mushroom evolution. . . . .45
•           BBC announces new David Attenborough program on plants. . . . .45
•           Twenty six new bee species from study. . . . .45
•           Women in botany: the trials and tribulations of two Lucys. . . . .45
•           Myrtle rust alarm raised. . . . .45
•           Joe Miller new Executive Secretary of GBIF. . . . .45
•           What is the most widely traded illegal wild product in the world today?. . . . .46
•           What should we call the dingo?. . . . .46
•           One billion trees program causing problems in NZ. . . . .46
•           Climate change effects on terrestrial Australian flora and fauna. . . . .46
•           Australia's Environment 2018. . . . .47
•           ANU Climate Update 2019. . . . .47
•           Botanic Gardens Climate Change Summit. . . . .47
• Points of view
•      Promoting efficiency for the grant proposal system. . . . .47
•      The act of drawing can teach more about botanical morphology than writing. . . . .47
•      Challenges for botanic garden science. . . . .47
• Botanical art
•      Margaret Flockton Award. . . . .48
• Obituaries. . . . .50
•      Les Pedley. . . . .50
•           Recollections of Les Pedley. . . . .51
•           Remembering Les Pedley. . . . .52
•      Vale Professor Robert James Johns, 1944–2019. . . . .53
• Deaths
•      John Dawson, 1928–2019. . . . .54
•           Notice. Marlies Eichler Postdoctoral Fellowship. . . . .54
•      David Moore. . . . .55
• Items of interest
•      At last some sense – quality not quantity for scientific papers. . . . .55
•      European examples of herbarium images with transcribed specimen and label data. . . . .55
•      Weed dating, not speed dating, another way of meeting that "significant other". . . . .55
•      Buffel grass and fire in inland Australia. . . . .55
•      Rare plants conserved by cultivation. . . . .55
•      Oranges (and apples) from America. . . . .56
•      Before you design your poster have a look at these approaches. . . . .56
•      Floral morphology meets developmental genetics. . . . .56
•      Land plant evolution. . . . .57
•      Origins of alternation of generations in land plants. . . . .57
•      Worldwide decline of insects – a review. . . . .57
•      Bees in suburbia and neonicotinoid levels. . . . .57
•      Collectors, economics and biodiversity in Fiji and Australia. . . . .57
•      Wipeout. . . . .57
•      Plant peculiarities. . . . .58
• Member profile
•      Lars Nauheimer, by himself. . . . .58
• Websites of interest
•      The Conversation – New Zealand version launched. . . . .59
•      Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF). . . . .60
•      Eucalypt Australia. . . . .60
•      Yale Environment 360. . . . .60
•      Fauna & Flora International. . . . .60
• Book reviews
•      The go-to reference for south-east Australian rainforest plants. . . . .61
•      A compendium all botanical libraries must have. . . . .62
• New books. . . . .64
• Chapter conveners. . . . .67
• Contacting major Australasian herbaria and systematics institutions. . . . .67
• About the Society and becoming a member. . . . .68
• ASBS publications. . . . .68
• About the Newsletter: contributions, advertisements and the Editors. . . . .69

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