ASBS Newsletter

Number 134, March 2008

Contents

From the President ....................... 1

ASBS Inc. business
Hansjörg Eichler Research Fund report ....................... 3
Nominations for 2008–2009 ASBS Council ....................... 4
Annual General Meeting 2008 ....................... 4
New members ....................... 4
2003 Nancy Burbidge lecture ....................... 4

ASBS, CHAH and ABRS business
Taxonomy Australia: a new lobby group for systematics ....................... 5

Articles
Recent developments in plant DNA barcoding ....................... 6
What can you do with a claudius? The nonsense of taxonomic infra-ranks ....................... 7
On correcting epithets such as “gillivraei” and alternative spellings for substantive epithets such as “solandri” and “solanderi” ....................... 8
Apology from the Editors: Grassworld article correction ....................... 9
The misapplication of the name Verbena bonariensis L. and the status of V. incompta P.W.Michael ....................... 10
The Australian Tropical Herbarium – open for business! ....................... 11

News
People movements ....................... 14
Australia Day honours ....................... 14
Another systematics position gone? ....................... 14
Papua New Guinea’s first census of vascular plant names ....................... 14
Hotel proposed for Lae Botanical Garden ....................... 15
ABRS Eureka Prize for Outstanding Taxonomic Research ....................... 15
New journal for teaching evolutionary theory ....................... 15
International Biogeography Society ....................... 15
ARC Fellowships to become more international ....................... 15
Have your say on scientific matters ....................... 16
Another challenge to Australian systematists ....................... 16
European consensus census ....................... 16
Sapotaceae meeting in Geneva ....................... 16
Arctic seed vault open for storage of crop plant diversity ....................... 17
Hold on loans and images from BM until December 2009 ....................... 17
Gamba Grass ban extends to Queensland ....................... 17
NT field trip ....................... 18
Devils Claw Festival ....................... 18
Editors’ note ....................... 18

Food for thought
Publishing in the new millenium ....................... 18
Overcoming discrimination in publication in scientific journals? ....................... 18
Barcoding for plants ....................... 18
World’s oldest tree ....................... 19
Weed seeds evolve more quickly in the city ....................... 19
Transgenic canola crop seeds can last for ten years ....................... 19
Measuring biodiversity hotspots in Madagascar .......................19
Fishing interfering with plant dispersal ....................... 19

Websites
Aluka – access to African plant species and herbarium specimens on the web ....................... 20
Getting access to European specimens ....................... 20
Roderick Pages’s iSpecies ....................... 20
Astronaut’s photographs ....................... 20
Weed profiles ....................... 20
Closure of Weeds CRC web site ....................... 20

ABRS report ....................... 21

ABLO report ....................... 21
Cracking the Darwin stubbie ....................... 24

New publications
National Taxonomy Forum ....................... 25
Tasmanian vegetation ....................... 25
Reviewers sought ....................... 25
All you need to know about weed control ....................... 26
Biofuels ....................... 26
Richard Schomburgk ....................... 26
Rubber: its story ....................... 26
Australia’s early coastal contacts ....................... 26
National Library maps ....................... 26
Recently published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh ....................... 27
Plant dyes ....................... 27
Forthcoming publications ....................... 27
Interested in editing the ASBS Newsletter? ....................... 27

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