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2006 T. F. Cheeseman Symposium
This gathering of over 180 professional and amateur botanists, run in conjunction with the NZ Plant Conservation Network Annual Conference, was held 20 - 22 November at the University of Auckland. It celebrated the centenary of the first edition of Cheeseman’s Manual of the NZ Flora (1906). It was organised by Auckland Museum in collaboration with Auckland Botanical Society, Landcare Research, NZ Botanical Society, NZ Plant Conservation Network and University of Auckland.
The programme was :
20 November
Early botanists
Keynote speaker: Ewen Cameron – Thomas Frederick Cheeseman, FLS, FZS, FNZI (1845-1923)
I. St. George: William Hodges’s watercolours of plants
E. J. Godley: A. F. W. Schimper and T. F. Cheeseman, biogeographers of the southern cold temperate zone
D. Galloway: William Lauder Lindsay’s contribution to cryptogamic botany in NZ
NZ floras and bioinformatics
Keynote speaker – Aaron Wilton: Floras of the future
P. J. de Lange: Toward a full Chatham Island vascular flora
D. Glenny: The NZ liverwort flora
C. Howell: The exotic vascular flora of NZ
NZ flora systematics
Keynote speaker: Rob Smissen: Using molecular genetics to address taxonomic questions: new methods, old problems
R. Taskova: Chemical systematics and evolution of Veronica
B. S. Parris: Grammitidaceae of NZ and the world
P. J. de Lange: Biosystematics of the Kunzea ericoides complex
Pollination and reproductive biology
Keynote address. Linda Newstrom-Lloyd: Pollination systems in NZ
P. J. Garnock-Jones: Combined vs separate sexes in the land plant clade
A.Holzapfel: Hermaphrodites, sex distribution and sex determination in Dactylanthus taylorii
S. H. Anderson: Widespread failure of bird-pollination mutualisms on the NZ mainland
Field trip : Threatened Native Plant Garden, Auckland Regional Botanic Gardens
21 November
Keynote speaker. Andrew Young: From pattern to process: Ecological and genetic approaches to the analysis of plant population viability
J. Collins: From science to community – the conservation of Atriplex hollowayi
D Norton: Plant conservation in the South Island’s high country – challenges and opportunities
P Knightbridge: Hope for mistletoes
J Beever: From flora systematics to conservation, a rocky road – case studies in the moss world
G. Jenks: Back to the future – the incredible functional and aesthetic superiority of NZ’s native dune plants
M. Piripi: Conservation and hybridisation in the Waimakariri Basin
A. Townsend: NZ threatened plant listing announcement
Plant morphology, cytology, and function
Keynote speaker. Brian Murray: Why chromosomes still count
P. Novis: Extremophilic algae – a selection from NZ, Antarctica, and North America
J. Salter: matai and miro – the inside story on the rumour of their separation
M. I. Dawson: Chromosome relationships of the NZ and Australian Orchidaceae; independent evidence for the recent generic recircumscriptions
22 November
Field trips :
Rangitoto Island
Oratia Native Plant Nursery and Waitakare Range
A memorable gathering – congratulations to the organisers!
Editor
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