The native plants from Kangaroo Island’s Flinders Chase continue to recover from the intense and devastating bushfires of 2019/2020. In the last week of February 2021, a team from the State Herbarium of South Australia – Helen Vonow, Tracey Spokes and Andrew Thornhill – went to Kangaroo Island to conduct a week-long botanical survey of […]
The State Herbarium of South Australia published three articles in Vol. 33 of its journal Swainsona online, today 22 Dec. 2020: A paper on the genus Swainsona in Western Australia, and two papers on nomenclature and typification in the plant family Rhamnaceae. This volume of the journal concludes with these articles; hardcopy of Vol. 33 will be printed within the next few months. (1) J. Kellermann, Nomenclatural notes […]
The State Herbarium of South Australia published two articles in its journal Swainsona online, today 12 Nov. 2020. The first article is published in Vol. 33, which contains regular papers for the years 2019 and 2020; the second article is published in the new Vol. 34, a special issue of the journal that will contain several papers on botanical […]
Fungi play important roles after fire. Their fine, root-like hyphae bind soil particles, stabilising the soil and reducing erosion. Fungi provide nutrients for plants, helping to re-establish plant communities. They reduce the high pH of the ash bed. Many fungi break down the burnt litter and wood, returning nutrients to the soil. A previous Blog […]
Hardcopies of two volumes of the State Herbarium of South Australia‘s journal Swainsona are now available for purchase. Vol. 31 contains regular papers of the years 2017/18. The table of contents is available here. Retail price $50. Vol. 32 is the special volume on Lichens of Kangaroo Island. All species that occur in the region are […]
You must be logged in to post a comment.