Based on extensive herbarium, field, botanical illustration, and molecular phylogenetic research, five genera and eight species are recognised for the Neotropical Haemodoraceae. New taxa include Cubanicula Hopper et al., Xiphidium pontederiiflorum M.Pell. et al. and Schiekia timida M.Pell. et al. Two new combinations are made, Cubanicula xanthorrhiza (C.Wright ex Griseb.) Hopper et al. and Schiekia silvestris (Maas & Stoel) Hopper et al. We also correct the author citation for Xiphidium, provide the necessary typifications for several names and present an updated identification key, comments, and photo plates for all species. Finally, we provide high-quality illustrations for most of the recognised species and their diagnostic characters.

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Taxon. This is the format for this most useful biographical catalog involving the three titular institutions. The emphasis is hence on American and European naturalists, mostly botanists. There are no statistics for the number of naturalists involved. Most have only a few lines. Even a giant such as Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is exceptional in coverage, with a tad over a page.However, Swiss botanist Albrecht von Haller (1708-77) gets a record 6.5 pages. The catalog helpfully notes if a portrait was published.Although it is handy to have printed copies available, this type of endeavor seems better suited for the Internet because presumably updates would be accessible-after all parts 1 and 2 appeared in 1987 and 1988. Michael T. Stieber et al. (comp.) did the previous parts (see Taxon 37: 219, 954): pt. 1, Group portraits, 1987, xi, 93 pp., ISBN 0-913196-50-9, pt. 2, Portraits of individuals, A-D, 1988, pp. [i-ii], 95-387, ISBN 0-913196-50-9. Subsequentparts might usefully list the previously published parts and note that "GP" actually refers to "group portrait," that is, part 1.-Rudolf Schmid, UC Lieth, H. (Helmut); Moschenko, M.; Lohmann, M.; Koyro, H.-W. & Hamdy, A. (ed.). Halophyte uses in differentclimates. Vol. 1. Ecological and ecophysiologicalstudies. 1999. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden (series: Progress in biometeorology, vol. 13). xii, 258 pp., ISBN 90-5782-038-2. Hamdy, A.; Lieth, H.; Todorvic, M. & Moschenko, M. (ed.). Idem. Vol. 2. Halophyte crop development: Pilot studies. 1999. Ibid. (series: Idem, vol. 14). viii, 144 pp., ISBN 90-5782-025-0. Each: ill., PB, price unknown. [Seminar held July 1998 in Florence, w/foreword by M. Kayamanidou (same in each vol.), 22 papers on ecol., ecophysiol., and agr., and 7 appendices (climate diagrams; contributors; salinity conversion table; database-see review; climate diagrams relevant to contribs. in vol. 2; addresses; list taxa mentioned in vol. 2); no index.] The main item oftaxonomic importance is the appendix "Halophyte database vers. 2.0 1999" by U. Menzel & H. Lieth (vol. 1, pp. 159-258), a list that has 545 references and "contains over 2600 names [alphabetically arranged by family] ... checked for synonyms and spelling errors" against the Index Kewensisas a "nomenclature standard" (p. 159). This yielded antiquities such as Barringtonia under Myrtaceae instead of Lecythidaceae. Sample format: Batis maritima {L.} Linn. [sic] / 48,3 [for the highest percentage of salinity] / 346:360:19:27:157:190:195:343:191:307 [reference numbers]. In all, this is a useful list to be taken cum g...

Abstract. To examine claims that the role of botanical art in systematic botany is diminishing because of advances in photography, this review considers relevant literature and includes a quantitative analysis of trends in modern journals, monographs and floras. Our focus is on southern hemisphere systematic botany because, relative to the northern hemisphere, this is poorly represented in modern reviews of botanical art and photography. An analysis of all digitally available papers in Nuytsia, the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden, Muelleria, Telopea, Austrobaileya and Systematic Botany established that, although photographic illustrations have increased since 2000, botanical illustrations have not always diminished. The cause of these trends is unknown, but it is likely to be due to several factors, including sourcing funding for production of botanical illustration, editorial preference for the use of illustrations or photographs, author preference for either illustrations or photographs, and moving to online publication, with no charges for colour reproduction. Moreover, the inclusion of botanical artists as co-authors in some scientific publications signals an ongoing and important role. Botanical illustration brings sharp focus and meticulous attention to detail regarding form and structure of plants. Photography is useful at the macro-scale for habitat and whole-plant traits, as well as at the micro-scale for anatomical textures and ultrastructure. These complementary approaches can be important components of taxonomic discovery, with the potential for a new role in modern trait analysis in molecular phylogenies.

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Hickman, E.J. & Hopper, S.D. A revision of the tiurndins (Tribonanthes, Haemodoraceae). Nuytsia 30: 87-154 (2019). The tiurndins (Tribonanthes Endl.) comprise a small taxonomically challenging genus of geophytes endemic to the Southwest Australian Floristic Region. Six named and one undescribed species of Tribonanthes are recognised in recent literature. Tribonanthes poses the most difficult taxonomic problems remaining for the Haemodoraceae in Western Australia. It is a genus where herbarium studies alone are insufficient to delineate taxa. A knowledge of variation in wild living material has proved essential to resolve taxonomic difficulties in the tiurndins. This revision recognises and comprehensively illustrates living plants of the 12 recognised species, four of which are new (T. elongata E.