Publications

ASBS Newsletters

Back issues of the Newsletter are available from Number 27 (May 1981) onwards, excluding Numbers 29, 31, 60, 84-86, 89-91, 99, 100, 103, and 137-139.

ASBS Newsletter No. 53: Systematic Status of Large Flowering Plant Genera
Edited by Helen Hewson, 1987

This Newsletter issue includes the reports from the February 1986 Boden Conference on the "Systematic Status of Large Flowering Plant Genera". The reports cover: the genus concept; the role of cladistics in generic delimitation; geographic range and the genus concepts; the value of chemical characters, pollination syndromes, and breeding systems as generic determinants; and generic concepts in the Asteraceae, Chenopodiaceae, Epacridaceae, Cassia, Acacia, and Eucalyptus.

Cost: All newsletters are free except for Number 53, which is $5 plus $1.75 postage (in Australia).

Payment: Cheques payable to "ASBS Inc." or Mastercard and Visa payments accepted. Fax credit card details to (02) 6250 9448.

Helen Thompson
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Enquiries: contact Helen Thompson via email at helen.thompson@environment.gov.au or by phone at (02) 6250 9445

History of Systematic Botany in Australasia

Edited by P.S. Short.
A4, case bound, 326pp, ASBS, 1990.

For all those people interested in the 1988 ASBS symposium in Melbourne, here are the proceedings. It is a very nicely presented volume, containing 36 papers on: the botanical exploration of our region; the role of horticulturalists, collectors and artists in the early documentation of the flora; the renowned (Mueller, Cunningham), and those whose contribution is sometimes overlooked (Buchanan, Wilhelmi).

The Contents, Preface and an article by J.H. Willis are available here.

This book is almost out of print.

Cost: $10 + $10 postage in Australia (postage elsewhere at cost).

Payment: Cheques payable to "ASBS Inc." or Mastercard and Visa payments accepted.

To order this book contact Frank Udovicic via email at frank.udovicic@rbg.vic.gov.au

Evolution of the Flora and Fauna of Arid Australia

Edited by W.R. Barker and P.J.M.Greenslade.
Soft cover, 392 pp, ASBS and ANZAAS, 1982.

The Contents and Preface are available here.

This collection of more than 40 papers will interest all people concerned with Australia’s dry inland, or the evolutionary history of its flora and fauna. It is of value to those studying both arid lands and evolution in general. Six sections cover: ecological and historical background; ecological and reproductive adaptations in plants; vertebrate animals; invertebrate animals; individual plant groups; and concluding remarks.

This book is almost out of print.

Cost: $20 plus $10 postage in Australia (postage elsewhere at cost).

To order this book contact Bill Barker via email at bill.barker@sa.gov.au

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