ASBS Newsletter

Number 126, March 2006

Contents

ASBS Inc. business
From the President ................. 3
28 th Annual General Meeting of the Australian Systematic Botany Society, Inc. ................. 3
Attachment 1 – Minutes of the 2005 Annual General Meeting ................. 5
Attachment 2 – President’s Report ................. 5
Attachment 3 – Treasurer’s Report ................. 6
Attachment 4 – Newsletter Report ................. 14
Hansjörg Eichler Research Fund report ................. 14
Life Membership awarded to Robyn Barker ................. 14
Criteria for ASBS Award nominations ................. 15
Life Membership ................. 15
Nancy Burbidge Medal ................. 16
Welcome to new members in 2006 ................. 16

Puzzle answer ................. 16

Eichler Research Fund reports
A molecular phylogeny for Australian Elaeocarpus (Elaeocarpaceae) and the affinities of a putative new taxon ................. 17
Tetratheca and allies ................. 20

Articles
Flora Tasmanica exhibition opening address ................. 25

Miscellanea
Change of standard form of name J. Kellermann ................. 27
Collecting Charophytes. ................. 28
Ongoing Lavandula research in Australia ................. 28
Nature ................. 29

News
Australia Day Honours for services to Eucalyptus ................. 29
Atlas of Living Australia ................. 29

CHAH business
Australian Plant Census ................. 30

ABRS report ................. 31

ABLO report ................. 33

Art competitions
Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize ................. 33

Book reviews
A Flora of Australia macrofungal first ................. 34
A local Perth flora ................. 35
Bioinformatics ................. 37

Exhibitions of interest
Flora Tasmanica exhibition at Canberra Botanic Gardens ................. 42
400 Years of Dutch history – Sydney and Canberra exhibits ................. 42
Botanical illustrations in Sydney ................. 42
Joseph Lycett art exhibition for Sydney, Newcastle and Canberra ................. 43
Cook exhibition in Canberra ................. 43
Australian landscapes in Canberra ................. 43
Lhotsky’s journal ................. 43

Conferences
Acacia 2006: Knowing and Growing Australian Wattles ................. 43

Websites of interest
New York Digital Library ................. 44
Key to Tasmanian Dicotyledons ................. 44

From Taxacom
New World Checklist of Selected Plant Families website ................. 44
New version of Kew Bibliographic Databases ................. 44
A Spanish digital botanical library ................. 44

ASBS Publications ................. 45

ASBS Chapter Conveners ................. 46

Contacting Major Australian Herbaria and Systematics Institutions ................. 46

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