Category Archives: Publications

JABG and JSTOR

Recently, Michelle Waycott, Chief Botanist of the State Herbarium of South Australia, signed an agreement with the not-for-profit organisation JSTOR on behalf of the Board of the Botanic Gardens & State Herbarium: The Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens (JABG) will soon be available through the JSTOR shared digital library of scholarly content, to which the majority of Australian and overseas university and institutional libraries subscribe. This is in addition to free access through the Journal’s web-page, and strengthens the Journal’s presence in libraries worldwide.

This week, a complete set of back issues was couriered to JSTORs scanning facility in India, where the journal issues are scanned, OCRed and the final PDFs created. Hardcopy journals will be stored in perpetuity in JSTORs secure storage facility in the United States.

The Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens is a peer-reviewed open-access journal, publishing papers in plant systematics, evolution, biogeography, taxonomy, nomenclature and related botanical fields, with a focus on Australia and the region. It is one of five botanical journals published by Australian herbaria and botanic gardens. Articles are published online and in hardcopy; all back issues are available on the Journal’s web-page.

In addition, the State Herbarium of South Australia is also a partner of JSTOR Global Plants, contributing very high resolution images of herbarium type specimens as part of the Global Plants Initiative (GPI). This initiative aims to digitise and make available plant type specimens from around the world, together with other botanical resources, for research purposes.

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Previous versions of Flora treatments are still available from our Superseded treatments page.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

Journal hardcopy printed, Vol. 26 (2013)

Hardcopy of Vol. 26 of the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens is now available. The volume has 105 pages and contains all eight papers that were published online during 2013. The Journal is now using the latest digital printing techniques, with many photographs, line drawings and one watercolour plate reproduced in full colour.

Copies can be purchased for $25 from the Reception, Adelaide Botanic Gardens, Goodman Building, Hackney Road, Adelaide, or by phoning 08 8222 9311. Copies to our subscribers are currently being posted.

Please visit flora.sa.gov.au/jabg for the online version of the Journal, including contents for Vol. 26 and access to all back issues from Vol. 1 (1976).