ASBS Newsletter
Number 180, September 2019
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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