ASBS Newsletter

Contents

• From the President
•      Wellington conference. . . . .1
•      ASBS Funding. . . . .1
•      Nancy T. Burbidge Medallist. . . . .2
•      Other news. . . . .2
•      Postscript. . . . .2
•           Notice. Annual General Meeting. . . . .2
• Taxonomy Australia report. . . . .3
• Eichler Research Fund report
•      Molecular systematics of the Australasian genus Corunastylis Fitzg. (Prasophyllinae, Orchidaceae) using
•      next-generation sequencing. . . . .3
• Articles
•      Nothing changes – early taxonomic difficulties and suggestions for a concerted approach to
•      the documentation of Australian flora, fauna and geology. . . . .6
• Announcement
•      New Flora of Tasmania Online website. . . . .11
• ABRS report. . . . .12
• News
•      Dual birthdays for Northern Territory Herbarium. . . . .12
•      NT Flora online. . . . .13
•      Stephen van Leeuwen leaving WA's Environment department. . . . .13
•      Katherine Nargar's new role in Orchid world. . . . .13
•      Funding opportunity. . . . .13
•      New Zealand's CHR has the world's largest collection of subantarctic plants. . . . .14
•      When there's one tree left, there's still time... . . . . .14
•      Making the PNG News. . . . .14
•      Forestry herbarium transferred to University of Melbourne Herbarium. . . . .14
•      UN Climate Change Report. . . . .15
•      A second revised version of the International Code for Phytolith Nomenclature. . . . .15
•      Journal devotes whole issue to "plant blindness". . . . .15
• Coming conferences
•      2019 ASBS-NZPCN Conference – September update. . . . .16
•           Notice. Conference goers (and others) going to New Zealand? Read this before you go. . . . .16
• Deaths
•      Paul Gioia (1959–2019). . . . .18
•      David G. Frodin (1940–2019). . . . .19
•      Jan-Frits (JeF) Veldkamp (1941–2017). . . . .19
•      Les Pedley (1930–2018). . . . .19
• Points of view
•      Herbaria and their future. . . . .19
•           Using diatoms from herbarium specimens to indicate water quality. . . . .19
•           Herbaria and ethnobotany. . . . .19
•           Digitization of herbaria enables novel research. . . . .20
•           Changing uses of herbarium data with time. . . . .20
•           Integrative and translational uses of herbarium collections across time, space and species. . . . .20
•           Next generation collections. . . . .21
• Conference report
•      US Botany 2019 Conference at Starr Pass, Tucson, Arizona. . . . .21
• Book reviews
•      Be edified: reach for WA's book on plant names. . . . .22
•      A curate's egg. . . . .24
• New books. . . . .25
•      For the younger reader. . . . .29
•      Downloadables. . . . .30
• Chapter conveners. . . . .31
• Contacting major Australasian herbaria and systematics institutions. . . . .31
• About the Society and becoming a member. . . . .32
• ASBS publications. . . . .32
• About the Newsletter: contributions, advertisements and the Editors. . . . .33

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