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Updated Flora treatment published, June 2014
Ptilotus nobilis subsp. nobilis
One updated family chapter of the new, 5th edition of Flora of South Australia was released today:
Amaranthaceae (version 2) (7.8mb)
by Jo Palmer, Terena Lally and Cathy Miller from the Australian National Herbarium, Canberra.
The new version of the treatment features corrected location information, updated synonymies and more photographic plates. The recently published split of Hemichroa into two genera (Masson & Kadereit 2013) is not accepted.
Previous versions of Flora treatments are still available from our Superseded treatments page. The general link to the 5th edition of Flora of South Australia is flora.sa.gov.au/ed5.
New Flora chapters published, June 2014
Microseris lanceolata, native yam daisy
Two chapters of the new, 5th edition of Flora of South Australia were published today, 10 June 2014.
Asteraceae (partly) (6.2mb). This chapter contains treatments of the tribes Cardueae, Cichorieae (formerly called Lactuceae), Helenieae and Tageteae. Over 60, mainly naturalised species of daisies in 30 genera are described by five botanists from Australia and New Zealand: Tony Bean, David Cooke, Avi Holzapfel, Neville Scarlett & Ian Thompson. Further tribes of Asteraceae are in preparation and an update will be published once they are finalised. Some species are illustrated with line-drawings or photographs.
Convolvulaceae (version 2) (2.8 mb). State Herbarium botanists Robyn Barker & Peter Lang have up-dated the treatment by the late Bob Johnson. The family is repesented in South Australia with 36 species in 10 genera. Five photographic plates with colour images of many species were also added to this Flora chapter.
Previous versions of Flora treatments are still available from our Superseded treatments page. The general link to the 5th edition of Flora of South Australia is flora.sa.gov.au/ed5.
New Journal article, May 2014
Today, a short paper (118kb PDF) by Rafaël Govaerts (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, U.K.) was published in the online edition of the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, correcting the nomenclature of the Philip Island wheat grass. This species is endemic to Philip Island and Norfolk Island in the Pacific Ocean (over 1400 km east of mainland Australia), and Lord Howe Island (c. 600 km east of Australia). More information on the vegetation of Philip Island can be found in a report by Kevin Mills (2.7mb PDF).
To access content of all volumes of the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens since 1976, please visit the journal’s web-site at flora.sa.gov.au/jabg.
Philip Island, 6 km south of Norfolk Island
No seminar in June
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