ASBS Newsletter

Number 127, June 2006

Contents

President’s report ..........................1

ASBS Inc. business
Hansjörg Eichler Research Fund .........................1
Presentation of Nancy Burbidge Medal to Alex George .........................2

Articles
Eucalyptus or Guava rust, Puccinia psidii – a serious threat to our forests and plantations ...2
Notes on Ormocarpum (Fabaceae: Faboideae) .........................5
Physalis (Solanaceae) in Australia – nomenclature and identification .........................6
A convict-made travelling desk owned by the brothers Ferdinand and Francis Bauer .............9

Miscellanea
Australian Systematic Botany .........................10
The flowering of Banksia rosserae .........................10
From Fungimap Newsletter .........................10
New journal for fungi .........................11
An on-line journal for teachers in biology and other natural sciences .........................11
Latest Weeds CRC’s newsletter, Weed Watch .........................11
English translation of Malaspina’s journals .........................11
A second bridal creeper for Australia .........................11
An interesting time ahead for Australian willows .........................12
London plane naturalised in the ACT .........................12
As innocent as a lamb – a potential naturalised euphorb .........................12
Alfred Ewart – history repeats? .........................13
Great Australian Bushwalk .........................13
The Great Cactus Hoax .........................13

News
Staff update from MEL .........................14
Andrew Lowe at Adelaide .........................14
Pilbara field work for Australian specialists .........................14
New funds for data capture .........................14
Tony Orchard departing systematics and the Australian Plant Census .........................15
Changed email addresses for WA Herbarium .........................15

Deaths
Jenny Chappill, legume systematist and teacher .........................15
Bruce Grivell, South Australian plantsman .........................15
Ian Common, Australian butterfly man .........................15

For your dictionary .........................15

CHAH Inc. business
Australian Plant Census report .........................16

Points of view .........................17
A project for the Society .........................17
An additional observation on phrase names .........................17

ABLO report .........................18

ABRS report .........................19

Notice: ASBS Annual Conference, Cairns, 13th - 15th November 2006. ...........19

Book reviews
Botany and art of Empress Josephine’s garden ..................................................20
CD adjunct to Costerman’s book on southeastern Australian native trees and shrubs ...........21
Celebrating four centuries of Dutch impact on Australia .........................22
Accessing two Western Australian conference proceedings .........................23
Drummond Symposium, Toodyay 2004 .........................23
Investigator 200, Albany 2001 .........................23

Conferences
Current conferences .........................24
8th International Mycological conference .........................24
Coming conferences .........................24
15th Australian Weeds Conference .........................24
Plant Diversity in the Tropics – ASBS 2006 meeting .........................24
Flora Malesiana Symposium VII .........................24

Exhibitions
Australian exhibitions .........................24
Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize Exhibition, Adelaide .........................24
A change of emphasis at the National Botanic Gardens, Canberra .........................24
Forster exhibition, National Museum of Australia, Canberra .........................24
National treasures from Australia’s Great Libraries .........................25
On-line exhibitions at the Natural History Museum, London .........................25
First Fleet artwork .........................25
Sydney Parkinson’s artwork on-line .........................25
Wildlife Photographer of the Year .........................25

Websites of interest
Another summary of the Nomenclature session in Vienna .........................26
Biomimicry .........................26
Artists’ Kew .........................26
J.D.Hooker website .........................26
Explorion – travel and exploration site .........................26
Encycloweedia .........................26
Like looking at pictures of fungi? .........................26
Herbarium specimens as works of art .........................26
Career in Science? .........................26

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