2017 program book by Johanne Stogran

Scientific Program June 24 - 28, 2017

2nd Floor Stockyard Rooms Fort Worth Grand Ballroom/Junior Ballroom

Stockyards 3

Stockyards 2

Stockyards 1

Stockyard Prefunction Women's Restrooms

Fort Worth Ballroom 6

Men's Restroom Fort Worth Ballroom Prefunction

Fort Worth Ballroom 7

Fort Worth Ballroom 5

Texas Ballroom B Escalators Up

Escalators Down

Fort Worth Ballroom 4

Fort Worth Ballroom 1

Fort Worth Ballroom 2

Registration

Texas Ballroom J

Texas Ballroom A

Texas Ballroom Prefunction

tors Eleva

Fort Worth Ballroom 8

Exhibit Hall and Posters Texas Ballroom Texas Ballroom E

Texas Ballroom C

Fort Worth Ballrooms Fort Worth Ballroom Prefunction

Texas Ballroom H

G Texas Ballrooms Texas Ballroom G

Texas Ballroom D

Fort Worth Ballroom 3

Texas Ballroom I

Texas Ballroom F

Texas Ballroom Foyer Fort Worth Ballroom Prefunction

Botany 2017 Conference Office - Stockyards 2 Presentation Ready Room - Stockyards 1 Morning Coffee Breaks - Texas Ballroom Lobby Afternoon Coffee Breaks - Exhibit Hall The Pool - Roof top Starbucks - In the Lobby -1st Floor Mokara Spa - 3rd Floor

Fort Worth Function Rooms - Third Floor

3rd Floor Open to Below

3rd Floor Greenspace Open

Sundance Prefunction

Sundance 6

Sundance 5

Sundance 4

Sundance 3

Sundance 2

Sundance Rooms

Sundance 1

Texas Longhorn Board Room and Black Angus Board Room are on the 15th Floor

Welcome to Fort Worth! ................................................... 2 Conference Organizers..................................................... 3 General Conference Information ...................................... 4 Fort Worth Highlights........................................................ 6 Workshops ................................................................... 12 Field Trips ................................................................... 13 Ticketed Events.............................................................. 14 Special Lectures............................................................. 19 Symposia and Colloquia Schedule.................................. 29 Participating Societies.................................................... 32 Be Sure to Visit 0ur Exhibitors!....................................... 51 Artisan Extravaganza!..................................................... 57 Daily Schedules Friday.................................................................. 59 Saturday.............................................................. 59 Sunday................................................................ 60 Monday ............................................................... 63 Posters............................................................ 80 Tuesday............................................................... 94 Wednesday........................................................ 111 Author Index................................................................ 124 Meetings, Mixers & Special Events................................ 133 Special Lectures, Symposia & Colloquia....................... 135 Contributed Paper Session............................................ 136 Workshops ................................................................. 137

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Greetings Society Members & Fellow Scientists! We wish you a fruitful conference and enjoyable experience here in Fort Worth. It is a pleasure to welcome all of you! We are delighted to be jointly sponsoring an annual meeting of this magnitude that brings together scientists from a wide range of countries, societies, and botanical disciplines. We encourage you to take the time to enjoy the depth and breadth of the science on display. As a registrant, you are invited to explore any topic you like and attend as many talks and functions as you can fit in. With the many contributions of our members and the hard work of our organizing committee, a great program has been assembled, and we wish you all the best with the challenge of narrowing down your choices. This meeting represents a marvelous opportunity to share ideas and build collaborations in a wide range of disciplines that you may not have previously considered. For networking opportunities, the city of Fort Worth is within a short ferry ride from the convention center, has dozens of restaurants and bars for you to meet in a fun atmosphere. As well, attendees at our meetings consistently mention in our annual post-meeting surveys the importance of field trips. If there is anything we can do to make your conference more comfortable, please feel free to discuss your needs with our support staff. Look for us at the information booth and in the registration area right outside the Exhibit Hall. Wishing you all the best over the next few days as you experience all Fort Worth has to offer! Enjoy the conference! Enjoy Fort Worth!

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Botany 2017 Conference Organizers American Fern Society

President – Eric Schuettpeltz Program Director – George Yatskievych

American Society of Plant Taxonomists

President – Jeffrey Doyle Program Director – Harvey Ballard Local Rep – Peter Fritsch

American Bryological and Lichenological Society

President – Larry St. Clair Program Director – Catherine La Farge

International Association for Plant Taxonomy

President – Vicky Funk Secretary – Karol Marhold

Society for Hebarium Curators

President – Austin Mast Program Director – Andrea Weeks

Local Host – Botanical Director – Ed Schneider Brooke Best

Research Institute of Texas

Field Trip Coordinator Botanical Society of America

President – Gordon Uno Program Director – Amy Litt Executive Director – Bill Dahl Director of Conferences – Johanne Stogran

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General Conference Information Registration Area Hours

Exhibits

On-site registration, pickup of registration packets for those who have pre-registered, and late purchase of social event tickets can be done at the Registration Area.

Be sure to visit the outstanding array of commercial and scientific exhibits offered. The Exhibition Hall will be open:

Registration is located in the Omni Lobby on: Friday, June 23 ............ 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Sunday evening All Society Mixer in the Hall

Sunday, June 25............10:00 am to 5:00 pm for hanging posters and exhibit set-up Monday, June 26.......... 9:00 am to 7:00 pm

Saturday, June 24...........7:00 am to 6:00 pm

Tuesday, June 27........... 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Registration is located in the Texas Ballroom Foyer (2nd floor) on:

Wednesday, June 28............ 9:00 to 4:00 pm Please note: Hall will close after the afternoon coffee break.

Sunday, June 25............ 7:00 am to 7:00 pm Monday, June 26.......... 7:00 am to 6:00 pm Tuesday, June 27............7:00 am to 3:00 pm

Posters & Poster Sessions

Wednesday, June 28.....7:00 am to 12:00 pm

Posters will be on display for the duration of the meeting in the Exhibit Hall Sundaythrough Wednesday. All posters should fit onto bulletin boards that are 4 feet tall and 4 feet wide. Materials may be secured with push pins, which will be provided. Botany 2017 management, the Center are not responsible for any poster materials remaining after 4:00 pm on Wednesday, June 28.

Special Services If you require special accommodations, assistance, or services, please let a Botany 2017 representative know by contacting the Conference Office - in Stockyards 1. Child Care

Poster set-up time is: Sunday, June 25...........10:00 am to 5:00 pm

Attendees are responsible for making all arrangements for sitting services. Botany 2017 assumes no responsibility for any difficulties or consequences arising from the use of a child care provider and recommends that the provider be screened carefully. If you are needing sitting service check at the information desk in the registration area.

Poster take-down time is: Wednesday, June 28 ..........12:00 pm - 4:00 pm All -Society Poster Sessions Monday, June 26, 5:30 - 7:00 pm in the Exhibit Hall for all Posters. Poster numbers and locations are assigned when you check in to hang your poster.

Coffee Breaks - In the Exhibit Hall Complimentary coffee breaks will be held in the Exhibit Hall which will serve as the hub of the conference. Check the Schedule of Events.

Odd-numbered posters will be presented from 5:30 pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 6:15 pm. Even-numbered posters presented from 6:15 pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 7:00 pm.

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If you are presenting a poster you should be prepared to stand by your poster for your assigned time.

Audio-Visual Information

Location of Scientific Sessions

All contributed paper and symposium sessions will be in a variety of meeting rooms. Audio amplification equipment will be provided in all rooms as needed. LCD projectors and computer stations will be available as standard presentation options. Computers will support Windows and Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.

All scientific sessions and most ticketed events will be held in the Fort Worh Omni Exhibits and Conference-wide coffee breaks are located in the Texas Ballroom Foyer or the Exhibit Hall. Building map is located on the front inside cover of this program book.

Please visit the Presentation Ready Room (Stockyards 1) well before your scheduled session so your presentation can be loaded. Be sure to double-check your presentation for accuracy as PowerPoint does not always carry over from MacIntosh to Windows operating systems. For computer presentations, files can be accepted on or USB stick.

Contributed Paper, Symposium and Colloquium Sessions Contributed Paper and Colloquium Sessions include presentations that are scheduled for 15 minutes each (inclusive of questions and discussion). Most Symposium sessions include presentations that are scheduled for 30 minutes each (inclusive of questions and discussion).

Presentation Ready Room A Presentation Ready Room will be available in Stockyards 1. Presenters are expected to load their presentations to the proper session folders the afternoon before their scheduled presentation time. Complete directions are posted in the Presentation Ready Room. Technicians will be available to help with presentersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; AV questions and needs for sessions, as well as to pre-load presentations.

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The Presentation Ready Room will be open at the following times: Sunday, June 25 ...................Noon - 6:00 pm Monday, June 26..............7:00 am - 6:00 pm Tuesday, June 27...............7:00 am - 6:00 pm Wednesday, June 28............ 7:00 am - Noon

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Fort Worth Highlights! The staff and associates at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) are thrilled to have you here, right in our own backyard. We offer the following suggestions for top sights to see while you’re here. And of course, we’d love to have you come visit us at BRIT! We’re just a short Uber or cab ride away at 1700 University Drive, Fort Worth, TX 76107. We have free tours scheduled for Tuesday through Friday at 1:30 pm, and you can check out our exhibit “The Hidden Gardens of BRIT: BRIT collections on display.” • If you’re searching for drinks and live music, the Scat Lounge in Sundance Square is pretty unique! Located in an alley along the square, you ride an elevator to the basement of the old Woolworth’s building and emerge in a darkly lit but richly textured jazz club. No TVs. No beer signs. Just good music and great cocktails! See the website for hours and dress code (just a few rules; nothing crazy). One warning: smoking is still allowed there. • Sundance Square and Downtown Fort Worth have so much to offer! Other than great places to eat and drink, from cheap to fancy, be sure to devote a few hours to walking around and visiting the shops, the Sid Richardson Art Museum, Bass Hall, the Water Gardens, and more. Sundance Square especially is very safe; there are bike cops and mounted police there to assist you if needed. But really, anyone should feel comfortable roaming the area by themselves. • Billy Bob’s! This is the largest honky tonk in the world! If you can make it out there one night, We promise you’ll have a good time! • The Kimbell Art Museum is worth a visit for its permanent collection alone, which boasts rare works by important artists, including Michaelangelo Buonarroti’s earliest known painting and a Pablo Picasso portrait from before his experiments with Cubism. The Kimbell’s permanent collection is open to the public, and there are free docent-guided tours twice a week. If you can’t catch a tour, you can still get plenty of information about the works on display—the Kimbell has exceptionally interesting artwork labels as well as free audio tours. During the Botany conference, there will be two special exhibitions: “Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture” and “A Modern Vision: European Masterworks from the Phillips Collection.” • The Fort Worth Cultural District is home to several highlyregarded museums. The Kimbell Art Museum (free permanent collection), Amon Carter Museum of American Art (free), and the Modern Art Museum ($10) are all very near each other. The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History ($11) and National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame ($10 regular; half-price with admission to the Museum of Science and History) are within walking distance from the other museums (around half a mile). The Kimbell has a large, free underground parking garage. • National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame. It’s quintessential Fort Worth—the city of “Cowboys and Culture.” You’ll appreciate the courage and bravado of the women who helped shape the American West, many of whose stories have not before been told widely. Make sure you take a ride on the mechanical bull! http://www.cowgirl.net/ -6-

• Bird Café in Sundance Square is the perfect spot to grab dinner with new or old friends. The menu features small sharable plates of locally sourced ingredients, some of which are very “inventive.” I love coming here with groups—it’s a great way to get to know each other and taste a lot of different foods. I recommend the fried sweetbreads! They also have a great wine, beer, and cocktail menu(their old-fashioned is my favorite in the city). • Molly the Trolley runs through downtown Fort Worth 7 days a week from 10am-10pm. Best of all—it’s free! Time between trolleys is 10 minutes, and there’s a stop right outside the Omni hotel. The Herd - Genuine Texas cowhands drive a herd of Texas longhorns down Exchange Avenue in the Stockyards National Historic District every day at 11:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Every detail of the cattle drive—from the saddles and chaps to the boots and hats – is authentic and historically true. Best Places to View The Herd Any Stockyards Station Restaurant with Outdoor Seating. Standing on E. Exchange Avenue in front of the Stockyards Visitors Center. The lawn in front of the Livestock Exchange Building. Drovers are available before and after each cattle drive for photo opps and questions.

If you’re hungry and looking to eat like a native, why not check out one of these local favorites? • Flying Saucer on Sundance Square Massive beer selection and great food. • M&O Station Grill They live up to their cavalier URL and are attached to a cool old mueseum. • Clearfork Food Truck Park Located along the river with pedestrian trails (and a bar!). • The Woodshed Also located right on the Trinity River. • The Railhead BBQ • Joe T. Garcia’s Our famous Mexican food restaurant. Massive and sprawling. Choose patio seating and prepare for long lines if you go at dinner. (It’s worth it!)

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Thirsty? Check out one of these spots and drink like a native: • T&P Tavern . Located just a short walk down the street from the conference hotel, this is a cool bar and restaurant set in a train station. • Barcadia arcade bar • Martin House Brewing • Thompson’s Bookstore. It’s a bar in a former bookstore, and it has a “secret” speakeasy downstairs! • Billy Bob’s Texas • Avoca Coffee

Need to get out of the hotel and into nature? Give one of these favorite places a try: • Fort Worth Botanic Garden. • Fort Worth Water Gardens. Right across from the conference hotel! • Eagle Mountain Lake. If you visit, you can also stop at Augie’s Sunset Café, sit on the pier and fish a while, and then grab a drink and some food. • Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge. • Tandy Hills Natural Area. If you have a day to fill, these farther afield places made the list: • Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, Glen Rose • Dinosaur Valley State Park, Glen Rose • Chandor Gardens, Weatherford • Clark Gardens, Mineral Wells • Sixth Floor Museum (aka JFK Museum), Dallas • George Bush Library, Dallas Check with the Omni Concierege for directions and for more suggestions!

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Skill-building workshop WS 11 - Cutting the Cord: a workshop for computer-free presentation skills Sunday, June 25th, 3:15-5:15 PM Fort Worth Ballroom 7 FREE!

Dr. Melanie Link-Perez Oregon State University and your BSA student reps:

Becky Povilus and James McDaniel

“Giving a talk” or “preparing a lecture” has become synonymous with putting together slides in presentation software such as PowerPoint. However, the power of these tools cannot replace good fundamental presentation skills, and may even detract from your message. In addition, computer-less “chalk-talks” for seminars or interviews are gaining popularity. For people used to working with presentation software, going computer-free can be a challenge. Understanding how to work with just a marker and whiteboard will help you refine your message to its most essential components. In this workshop, we will provide tips for effectively communicating information in a chalk-talk and give examples of what to do and what not to do. Finally, participants will get a chance to plan and practice a brief presentation of their own, and get feedback in a friendly environment. This workshop is for anyone who wants to become less dependent on computer-based presentation tools, or polish their presentation skills in general! Check at registration to see if spaces are open.

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Arabidopsis

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Analyse seedlings and leaves:

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Monitor root growth by analysing Multiple Frames (images) of a root system taken at different times.

√ Leaf area - leaf/hypocotyl distinction √ Root morphology √ Topology and developmental analysis

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Workshops Workshops A wide range of scientific and educational workshops will be presented at the Conference, on Sunday, June 25th. Workshop admissions vary in price and are considered a ticketed event. Pre-registration is required for all workshops as seating is limited. All workshops are held in the Omni Hotel. Complete descriptions and information about each workshop can be found on the conference website: www.botanyconference.org, and in the printed Abstract Book. Sunday

8:00 am - 5:00 pm WS 1

Introduction to Scientific Computing: A Crash Course.................................Sundance 3

WS 2

Using Digitized Herbarium Data in Research: Applications for Ecology,

Phylogenetics, and Biogeography.......................................................................Sundance 4

WS 3

Introduction to Next Generation Sequencing..................................................Sundance 1

WS 4

Introduction to botanical drawing with Betsy Barry.......................................Sundance 5

9:00 am - 12:00 pm WS 5

AIBS - Communicating Science to Decision-makers.....................................Sundance 2

WS 6

Planting Inquiry in Science Classrooms..............................................To be held at BRIT

Take the field trip bus to BRIT - meet in the Forth Wort Ballroom 5 at 8:30 am

10:00 am - 12:00 pm WS 7

The Cornell University Plant Anatomy Collection: an online resource for teaching

and research..................................................................................... Fort Worth Ballroom 7

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm WS 8

Tips for Success: Applying to Graduate School........................... Fort Worth Ballroom 7

WS 9

Faculty Life at an Undergraduate Institution............................... Fort Worth Ballroom 8

1:00 pm - 5:00 pm WS 10

Machine learning with R for botanists..............................................................Sundance 2

3:15 pm - 5:15 pm WS 11

Cutting the cord - a workshop for computer-free presentation skills..........Fort Worth

Ballroom 7

3:15 pm - 5:15 pm WS 12

The U.S. Virtual Herbarium Project...................................................................Sundance 6

Monday 9:00 am - 10:00 am WS 13 Next Generation Research Uses of Biodiversity Collections.............. Fort Worth Ballroom 6

Thursday 8:00 am - 12:00 pm WS 14 Strategic Planning for YOUR Herbarium: A Professional Development Opportunity brought to you by the Society of Herbarium Curators and iDigBio ..................................Sundance 1

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Botany 2017 Field Trips Field Trips are open to all registered attendees of Botany 2017 including spouses/ companions and family members. (They must pay full trip registration fee.) All trips require pre-registration and are on a first-come and first-served basis. Fees include transportation, admission fees, field guides (if provided), water and where indicated, lunch.

Saturday, June 24

Trips Leave from the Main Lobby of the Hotel

FT 01 8:00am-5:00pm

Ferns of North Central Texas ........................................................... $75.00

FT 02 8:00am-5:00pm

Geobotany of LBJ National Grasslands ........................................... $70.00

FT 03 8:00am-3:30pm

Bryophytes and Lichens in North Central Texas (sponsored by ABLS).. $90.00

FT 04 8:00am-3:00pm Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge and Light Catcher Winery. $85.00 FT 05 8:00am-3:00pm Tandy Hills Natural Area and Rahr & Sons Brewing Company.... $70.00 FT 07 9:00am-12:30pm Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) and

Fort Worth Botanic Garden .............................................................. $45.00

FT 08 9:00am-12:30pm Cowboys and Rangers.......................................................................... $80.00 Sunday, June 25 Trips leave from Fort Worth Ballroom 5 BIA 8:00 am - 1:00 pm Botany in Action ..................................................................................... Free FT 09 9:00am-12:00pm A Fern Loverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Haven: Casa Flora, a World-Leading

Producer of Ferns ............................................................................... $70.00

FT 011 9:00am-12:30pm Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) and

Fort Worth Botanic Garden ............................................................ $45.00 Thursday, June 29

Trips Leave from the Main Lobby of the Hotel FT 12 8:00am-5:00pm LLELA Research Tour and Kayaking Trip ...................................... $150.00

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Botany 2017 Ticketed Events Food, fun, awards - ticketed social events can be the highlight of the botany conference. Connect with old friends and make new ones. The following society and group events require tickets. Tickets may be purchased in advance or on-site at the Registration area. Pre-paid event tickets will be included in the Registration packet, which will be distributed on-site. Please read the Refund and Cancellation Policy. Event venues will be announced on the tickets and in the Program Book. A limited number of tickets may be available for purchase at the Registration Desk on-site at the meeting, but availability is not guaranteed. Sunday TE - 1 Undergraduate Student Networking Event For Undergrads only! Join us for pizza and see how you can best navigate the conference to get the most out of the week. Hear about career paths and more! Free - 6:15 - 7:15 Before the Plenary Lecture............................................... Fort Worth Ballroom 4 TE - 2 All Society Opening Mixer Free but please sign up...Join your friends in this social evening before the real science starts! Held in the Exhibit so you can make those connections. 8:30 - 10:00 pm - Free but please sign up!.......................................................................Exhibit Hall

Monday TE - 3 Cornell Botanists and Friends Breakfast The Cornell University Botany breakfast is open to all current and former students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends, who have had a connection to botany at Cornell. Please join us, renew old friendships, make new friends, and catch up with your colleagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s activities! 7:00 am - 8:00 am $30.00 ................................................................................. Texas Ballroom G TE - 4 Michigan Consortium of Botanists Breakfast Join members of the Michigan Consortium of Botanists for an informational session that will include introductions, announcements, and networking opportunities for Michigan botanists. Any Michigan botanist is invited to attend, as well as those that have special interest in Michiganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flora. Bring your breakfast to this free, open forum. Although there is no charge, please register for this ticketed event. 7:15 am to 8:45 am.....................................................Texas Ballroom Foyer TE - 5 American Fern Society Luncheon The AFS Luncheon will be followed by the annual business meeting. Come join us and hear about the many activities sponsored by the American Fern Society. Noon to 1:30 pm $45.00 Students $20.00.............................................................. Texas Ballroom G

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Ticketed Events TE - 6 Student Involvement in Botany Luncheon Please join us for the sixth annual “Interactive Career Panel & Luncheon” at the 2017 Botany Conference in Fort Worth, Texas! We will start out the luncheon with a short ‘keynote’ presentation,provided by Dr. William (Ned) Friedman. Then, our panelists from various professions (e.g., academia, NGOs, and industry) will rotate from table to table giving you the opportunity to ask them questions about how they decided upon their career, how they got there, and what they enjoy most about it. So, if you’d like to learn more about how to make the best out of a career in the plant sciences over a catered lunch. Noon to 1:30 pm Student Price: $10.00 All Others $35.00......................................Texas Ballroom TE - 7 California Botanists Brown Bag Luncheon Bring your lunch and get together with botanists from California (past or present) or with interests in California plants. We will have time for personal conversations, a discussion and announcement period regarding projects and funding in California botany, and an open forum. No fee required but please register for this ticketed event. Noon to 1:30pm - Lunches will be available for purchase............................Texas Ballroom Foyer TE - 8 Paleobotanical Section Banquet Join us for the annual Paleo-Section Mixer...and then stay for the banquet. (Free) Mixer 6:30 – 7:30 pm - Dinner 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm - $65.00.................................................. Texas Ballroom G TE - 9 Planting Science Reception Join members of the Planting Science team – celebrate the achievements of the past year and look forward the future! 7:00 pm – 8:30 PM Free................................................Texas Ballroom Foyer TE - 10 Student Social and Networking Event Sponsored in part by the Botanical Society of America. To be held at T&P Tavern - walking distance to the Omni. Come meet your friends for this night of networking and fun!! 9:00 pm - midnight $10.00 ......................................................................................... T & P Tavern Networking Session Sponsored by:

T & P Tavern Former train station diner that’s now a tavern serving serious beers & pub fare on a big patio. 221 W Lancaster Ave Ste 1000. Fort Worth 4 - 5 minute walk from the Omni Wiley is the world’s leading society publisher and a market leader in publishing plant science research.With publications spanning the entire spectrum of plant science, including key journals in plant biochemistry and biotechnology, plant ecology, plant pathology and plant cell and molecular biology, Wiley helps individual researchers and professionals develop the skills and knowledge they need to succeed. -15-

Ticketed Events Tuesday TE - 11 University of Connecticut Alumni and Friends Breakfast Join your Colleagues and Alums for Breakfast. 7:00 am to 8:00 am - $25.00 ........................................................................ Fort Worth Ballroom 8 TE - 12 Brown Bag Breakfast for students of Charlie Heiser and Herbert Baker and the botanical descendants of those students - Hosted by Jane Bock Bring your continental breakfast (provided) and come discuss your memories. 7:00 - 8:00 am - Free ...........................................................................Texas Ballroom Foyer TE - 13 Enhancing Scientist Diversity in Plant Biology Luncheon Mentorship in Scientific Training: A Panel Discussion Spanning a Diversity of Backgrounds Mentorship is an important component of scientific training, and it serves a crucial role from undergraduates to graduates to faculty members. Good mentors can provide helpful guidance on many different aspects of professional and personal life, but unfortunately sometimes mentoring does not result in the best outcomes. In order to promote discussion on effectively mentoring students, the Diversity Luncheon will host a panel discussion, of students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty at different stages of their academic careers and from a variety of backgrounds, to examine multiple components of mentorship, including the influence of mentoring at the various career stages, why one seeks or does not seek mentoring, improving mentoring, and questions that mentors and mentees should address. While the panel will introduce the topics and discuss their experiences related to mentorship, attendees will have the opportunity to share their experiences with mentorship and ask questions of the panelists (and others). The luncheon will help to encourage discussion on mentorship at all career stages, across diverse backgrounds, and among people from different institutions. Noon to 1:30 pm $30.00 Students $15.00.............................................................. Texas Ballroom G TE - 14 Kaplan Memorial Lecture Fund Cocktail Reception Lecture – 3:30 – 4:30 pm followed by a Reception - 4:30 - 6:00 pm We invite all 2017 participants to attend both the Lecture and the Cocktail Reception/Fundraiser that immediately follows. Receive a commemorative wine glass, hors d’oeuvres and a drink as well as the opportunity to interact with Kaplan Lecture speaker and BSA colleagues. Reception: 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm Free but plases sign up..................................................Sundance 2 TE - 15 Ohio State University Reception Mix and mingle with colleagues with a connection to The Ohio State University! Cash Bar 5:30-6:30 $10.00 ................................................................................Sundance Prefunction TE - 16 LGBT & Allies Happy Hour Join us for a special social event celebrating and affirming LGBT botanists. Meet, network or just introduce yourself to fellow LGBT botanists and their friends. Cash bar. 5:30-6:30 $10.00................................................................................Sundance Prefunction

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TE - 17 ABLS Dinner - Little Red Wasp Kitchen and Bar Join your Society for Dinner - order from the menu - Appetizers provided by ABLS. More information here! Sign up so we know you are coming! 6:30 - 8:30 pm ................................................................................Little Red Wasp Kitchen and Bar Little Red Wasp Kitchen and Bar 808 Main St, Fort Worth

• Walk northwest on Houston Street • Take the first right onto W 9th Street • Take the first left onto Main Street • Little Red Wasp is on the left (about 1/2 mile away) TE - 18 American Society of Plant Taxonomists Banquet Join us for the Mixer and Dinner, awards and presentation by incoming ASPT President (Free) Mixer 6:00 – 7:00 pm .............................................................................Texas Ballroom Foyer Dinner 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm - $50.00, Students - $35.00 ........................................Texas Ballroom

Wednesday TE - 19 University of Wisconsin Alumni and Friends Breakfast Network and reconnect with current and former members of the UW family. Once a badger always a badger! 7:00 am to 8:00 am - $25.00 ........................................................................ Fort Worth Ballroom 8 TE - 20 Miami University of Ohio Breakfast The Miami University Botany breakfast is open to any who have had some connection to the department, including students, alumni, faculty and staff, former faculty and staff, as well as friends of the department. Join us, renew old friendships and catch up with what your colleagues have been doing! 7:00 am to 8:00 am $25.00............................................. Fort Worth Ballroom 7 TE - 21 NSF Brown Bag Information Session National Science Foundation Information Session will host a brown bag lunch with BIO program directors - bring your lunch and learn about the latest program changes and new directions across BIO, finding the right program for your research, strategies for proposal writing and submission, why you should be a reviewer/panelist. Ask questions about NSF in 2017 and beyond. No fee required but please register for this ticketed event. Noon to 1:30pm - Lunches available for purchase.........................................Texas Ballroom Foyer TE - 22 Celebrate! Wrap up a wonderful week with this is one last chance to mingle with new and old friends while enjoying fabulous food and drink. 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm Free .................................................................................... Texas Ballrooms

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More Love Band and DJ Sneaky Combo Join the Party - Food and Drink - Dancing! Wednesday Evening 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM Texas Ballrooms

Need A Headshot? Have your picture taken by professional photographer Janice Dahl

Tuesday morning 9:00 am - 10:30 am Wednesday morning 9:30 - 11:00

Special Lectures

Plenary Lecture

Robin Kimmerer The Fortress, the River and the Garden: new metaphors for cultivating a symbiosis of indigenous and scientific knowledges.

Sunday, June 25 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Texas Ballroom

Dr. Kimmerer is a mother, plant ecologist, writer and SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York. She serves as the founding Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment whose mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability. Her research interests include the role of traditional ecological knowledge in ecological restoration and the ecology of mosses. In collaboration with tribal partners, she and her students have an active research program in the ecology and restoration of plants of cultural significance to Native people. She is active in efforts to broaden access to environmental science education for Native students, and to create new models for integration of indigenous philosophy and scientific tools on behalf of land and culture. She is engaged in programs which introduce the benefits of traditional ecological knowledge to the scientific community, in a way that respects and protects indigenous knowledge. Dr. Kimmerer has taught courses in botany, ecology, ethnobotany, indigenous environmental issues as well as a seminar in application of traditional ecological knowledge to conservation. She is the co-founder and past president of the Traditional Ecological Knowledge section of the Ecological Society of America. Dr. Kimmerer serves as a Senior Fellow for the Center for Nature and Humans. Of European and Anishinaabe ancestry, Robin is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.

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As a writer and a scientist, her interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of our relationships to land. Dr. Kimmerer is the author of numerous scientific papers on the ecology of mosses and restoration ecology and on the contributions of traditional ecological knowledge to our understanding of the natural world. She is also active in literary biology. Her essays appear in Whole Terrain, Adirondack Life, Orion and several anthologies. She is the author of “Gathering Moss” which incorporates both traditional indigenous knowledge and scientific perspectives and was awarded the prestigious John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing in 2005. Her latest book “Braiding Sweetgrass: indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants” was released in 2013 and was awarded the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award. She has served as writer in residence at the Andrews Experimental Forest, Blue Mountain Center, the Sitka Center and the Mesa Refuge. She holds a BS in Botany from SUNY ESF, an MS and PhD in Botany from the University of Wisconsin and is the author of numerous scientific papers on plant ecology, bryophyte ecology, traditional knowledge and restoration ecology. As a writer and a scientist, her interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of our relationships to land. She lives on an old farm in upstate New York, tending gardens both cultivated and wild.

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Featured Speakers

Annals of Botany Special Lecture Anna Traveset Mutualistic networks in the GalĂĄpagos under pressure from aliens

Wednesday June 28 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Fort Worth Ballroom 4 Anna Traveset is a Research Professor of the Spanish Research Council at the Mediterranean Institute of Advanced Studies (IMEDEA, CSIC-UIB), based on Mallorca (Balearic Islands). Her research focuses on island systems, exploring how biotic interactions influence the regeneration and distribution of island plants. A major focus of her current work is the role of invasive species in natural communities, and how they influence mutualisms, especially on islands. She is currently coordinating projects in the Balearics Islands, the Canary Islands and the Galapagos Islands. Prof. Traveset received her BS in Biology from the University of Barcelona. Her PhD work was conducted at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied plant-insect interactions in Costa Rica under the supervision of Daniel Janzen. She then conducted postdoctoral research with Carlos Herrera and Pedro Jordano at the DoĂąana Biological Station in Seville, Spain. She has c. 200 publications in scientific journals and leads the Department of Terrestrial Ecology at IMEDEA. She has supervised numerous students and serves on the editorial board of several journals including Oikos, AoB Plants, Diversity & Distributions, Journal of Pollination Ecology, and PeerJ.

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Regional Botany Special Lecture

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Barney Lipscomb & Jason Singhurst A Botanical Waltz Across

Regional Botany Texas: Biological Crossroads and Floral Wonders of the Special LectureLone Star State

Tuesday A Botanical Waltz Across - June 27 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Fort Worth Ballroom 4 Texas: Biological Crossroads and Floral Wonders of the Lone Star State

Barney Lipscomb & Jason Singhurst Tuesday, June 27

Barney Lipscomb, a botanist, editor, public speaker, and researcher who began his career at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, in 1975 and is now the Leonhardt Chair of Texas Botany and director of BRIT Press at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Fort Worth. His research interests include the flora of Texas, taxonomy of the Cyperaceae, poisonous plants, the application of botany to forensic science, and natural history art as it relates to science. He has co-authored three books and authored or co-authored over 30 scientific papers. Jason Singhurst, a botanist and plant ecologist at Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, manages GIS and remote sensing land cover classification projects and conducts status surveys of rare plants in Texas. He is the discoverer of numerous Texas plants, published over 100 scientific publications, and is a co-author of Rare Plants of Texas (2008). -22-

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Kaplan Memorial Lecture Tuesday, June 27 3:30 4:30 pm Sundance 2

Dan Chitwood Persistent homology and organismal theory: quantifying the branching topologies of plants

Morphology in plants arises at the organismal level, rather than as an emergent property from the collective behavior of cells. Some siphonous algae developed convergent morphologies with land plants, but dramatically uncouple morphology from cell division. The green alga Caulerpa is arguably the largest single celled organism in the world yet is differentiated into leaf, stem, and root analogs. I will present results of a de novo assembled intra-cellular transcriptomic atlas of the giant coenocyte Caulepra taxifolia. Gene expression patterns are organized along an apical-basal gradient from the frond tip to the stolon and holdfasts that roughly corresponds to the flow of genetic information in the cell, from transcription to translation. I will also present evidence that similar cohorts of transcripts have been recruited to form organs between Caulerpa and the land plants. An organismal theory of plants emphasizes the overall plant formâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;rather than cells and histogenesisâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as the focus of plant morphology. I will end with a discussion of a promising new topological technique, persistent homology, which unlike traditional morphometric approaches can capture the branching architectures of plants. I will describe the application of persistent homology to leaf shape, leaflet serrations, and root architecture in the same plants that reveals a shared genetic basis for these diverse features in tomato introgression lines. I will end with a preview of applying persistent homology to predict plant family and location independently of each other in >170,000 leaves, and quantifying the complex, 3D branching architectures of roots and inflorescences using X-ray Computed Tomography.

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Incoming BSA Presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Talk Followed by presentation of Botanical Society of America Awards Wednesday 5:30 - 6:30 pm Fort Worth Ballroom 4

Loren Rieseberg Plant Evolution in a Human-altered World

Loren Rieseberg is a University Killam Professor and Canada Research Chair in Plant Evolutionary Genomics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He was born and raised in the western Canada, but moved to the USA for his graduate education, receiving a PhD in Botany from Washington State University in 1987. His lab employs evolutionary genomic approaches and field and greenhouse experiments to study the origin and evolution of new species, exploit the genetic diversity of wild extremophile species for crop improvement, and combat invasive weeds, focusing on members of the sunflower family. Lorenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work has been recognized by MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships, the David Starr Jordan Prize, Stebbins Medal, and the Darwin-Wallace Medal. He is an elected fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Canada, the Norwegian Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is Past-President of the American Genetics Association, President-Elect of the Botanical Society of America, and Chief Editor of Molecular Ecology (since 1999).

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Incoming ASPT President Talk Presented after dinner at the ASPT Banquet Tuesday 6:30 - 10:00pm Texas Ballroom

Chelsea Specht Networking or not working: Can we diversify botany?

Dr. Chelsea Specht obtained her BS from the University of Delaware and her MS and PhD in Biology as part of the joint program between New York University and the New York Botanical Garden. After a postdoc in the Department of Botany at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, Chelsea joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley's College of Natural Resources as Assistant Professor and Plant Organismal Biologist in 2005. She is currently Professor in the Departments of Plant and Microbial Biology and Integrative Biology, and Curator of Monocots in the University and Jepson Herbaria (UC/JEPS) as well as on the faculty advisory committee for the UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley. Chelsea's research uses traditional morphological and developmental techniques combined with molecular genetics, comparative genomics and evolutionary biology to study the natural diversity of plants and to help better understand the forces creating and sustaining this diversity. Her research and that of her students incorporates elements of systematics, developmental genetics, comparative phylogenetics and molecular evolution to study the evolution and diversification of fundamentally interesting plant traits (FIPTs) in diverse non-model systems, taking advantage of living and preserved collections to advance their research in plant systematics, biogeography, phylogeography, and developmental evolution. Much of her work has focused on the tropical order Zingiberales and includes species-, family- and ordinallevel phylogenetics, phylogeography, molecular evolution of floral development, genomics, taxonomic revisions, species descriptions and monographs. She is currently working on a monograph of New World Costaceae with Dr. Paul and Hiltje Maas -- so watch out world, that rapid radiation will be resolved!!! She supports an active and creative research group who benefit from an open, diverse, and inclusive environment that promotes excellence in scholarship, research, teaching and outreach and are intolerant of limitations set by biases. At UC Berkeley, Dr. Specht has been active on a task for Transforming Graduate Admissions aimed at developing mechanisms for diversifying our faculty in STEM through inclusive practices for graduate recruitment and retention, and has served on the Academic Senate Committee on Diversity, Equity and Campus Climate tasked with developing best practices for creating and sustaining an inclusive environment on campus, in laboratories and in classrooms. She has a husband who is an entomologist and a child (8) who loves ocotillo but is allergic to jojoba. -25-

Featured Speakers The Botanical Society of America annually announces the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Emerging Leader Awardâ&#x20AC;? to be given annually in recognition of creative and influential scholarship in any area of botany reflecting the breadth of BSA. Awardees will have produced outstanding scholarship and also demonstrated exceptional promise for future accomplishment.

Emerging Leader Lecture Sponsored by the American Journal of Botany

Michael Barker Genome Duplication, Natural Selection, and the Evolution of Plant Diversity Monday, June 26 11:00 - 12:00 pm Fort Worth Ballroom 4

Mike Barker is an Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Director of the Bioinformatics Program at the University of Arizona. He researches how variation in genome organization has contributed to the evolution and diversity of eukaryotes. Many of his publications are focused on understanding the impact of polyploidy and chromosomal evolution on plant evolution. A major goal of his work is to connect patterns of genome evolution across time scales by studying the microevolutionary consequences of polyploidy to inform our understanding of macroevolution, and vice versa. http://barkerlab.net

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Student Involvement in Botany Luncheon Interactive Career Panel: Explore your Botanical Career Options Monday, June 26th from 12:00PM to 1:30PM Texas Ballrooms G, H, I, J

Dr. William (Ned) Friedman Keynote Speaker Director of the Arnold Arboretum Arnold Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Harvard University

Please join us for the sixth annual “Interactive Career Panel & Luncheon” at the 2017 Botany Conference in Fort Worth, Texas! We will start out the luncheon with a short ‘keynote’ presentation, provided by Dr. William (Ned) Friedman. Then, our panelists from various professions (e.g., academia, NGOs, and industry) will rotate from table to table giving you the opportunity to ask them questions about how they decided upon their career, how they got there, and what they enjoy most about it. So, if you’d like to learn more about how to make the best out of a career in the plant sciences over a catered lunch

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Symposia and Colloquia Schedule Monday, June 26 - Morning 4D Botany of the Anthropogenic Environment 8:00 am - 12:00 pm ..................................................................................Sundance 3 Organized by: Rachel Meyer, University of California Los Angeles, Margaret S. Devall, Center for Bottomland Hardwoods Research, and Suzanne Koptur, Florida International University

Kral-ing Through Time: The Impact of Robert Kral on the Past, Present, and Future of Botany in the Southeastern U.S. 8:00 - 9:45 am...................................................................................... Fort Worth Ballroom 4

Organized by: Kim Taylor, Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Dwayne Estes, Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Austin Peay State University, and Peter Fritsch, Botanical Research Institute of Texas

Afternoon

Green digitization: online botanical collections data answering real-world questions 1:30 - 5:30 ........................................................................................... Fort Worth Ballroom 4 Organized by: Pamela Soltis, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gil Nelson, iDigBio, Florida State University, and Shelley A. James, iDigBio, Florida Museum of Natural History

Tuesday, June 27 Morning A Single Symbiota-based Herbarium Network for the US 8:30 - 11:00 ............................................................................................................. Sundance 2 Organized by: Mary Barkworth, Utah State University, and Steve Buckley, National Park Service

Getting everyone involved: Saving the seaside alder 8:30 - 11:30 ......................................................................................... Fort Worth Ballroom 6 Organized by: Stanley Rice, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, and Phil Gibson, University of Oklahoma

Afternoon Geology and Plant Life: the growing legacy of Arthur Kruckeberg 1:30 - 5:30 ........................................................................................... Fort Worth Ballroom 5 Organized by: Alan Pepper, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, Natalia Ivalú Cacho, Instituto de Biologia-UNAM, Mexico City, DF, Mexico, Ryan O’Dell, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Marina, CA, Loren H. Rieseberg, University of British Columbia, Canada, and John Willis, Duke Unversity

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Symposia and Colloquia Schedule Wednesday, June 28 Morning Big Data and the Conservation of North Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Flora 8:00 - 12:00.............................................................................................................. Sundance 5 Organized by: Management

Anne Frances, NatureServe and Peggy Olwell, Bureau of Land

Campanian-Maastrichtian floras on Laramidia: vegetation trends west of the seaway 8:30 - 11:30 ............................................................................................................. Sundance 3 Organized by: Lisa D. Boucher, University of Texas-Austin, and Dori L. Contreras, University of California-Berkeley

Afternoon The Role of Boundaries in Plant Diversification 1:30- 5:00................................................................................................................. Sundance 3 Organized by: Chelsea D. Specht, University of California Berkeley, and Madelaine Bartlett, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Please join us at the beginning of the Boundaries Symposium to Honor

Dr. Shirley Tucker

Botanical Society of Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2017 Pelton Award Winner

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The Botanical Society of America proudly supports the Conservation and Research Foundation in honoring the memory of DR. JEANETTE SIRON PELTON. The Jeanette Siron Pelton Award is made by The Conservation and Research Foundation of New London, CT, through the Botanical Society of America. The Pelton Award is given in recognition of sustained and creative contributions in plant morphology. The award defines morphology broadly to include the subcellular, cellular and organismal levels of complexity, and will recognize experimental, comparative, and evolutionary approaches.

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Bryological and Lichenological Society (ABLS) Bryological and Lichenological Society was founded in 1898. The organization is dedicated to the of all aspects of the biology of bryophytes and lichen-forming fungi and is one of the nation’s oldest otanical societies. Membership is open to all persons (professionals and amateurs) with interest in d lichens. Our society website (www.abls.org) provides additional information about the society, o related resources, and blogs about interesting topics. Approximately 500 individuals currently hold the Society.

American Bryological and Lichenological Society

The ABLS Constitution and By-Laws govern the operations of the Society and were last revised in ovide information about membership, meetings, finances, prohibitions, officers, publications, es.

are elected every other year by open ballot. The current officers include a president, presidentary, and a treasurer. The society is governed by an Executive Committee that includes the above ebmaster, the chair of the Financial Advisory Committee, the two journal editors, the two most sidents, and 3 members-at-large – including a student member at large.

ervices - A directory of current members, information about membership dues, and applications to be found on the ABLS website’s membership services page (http://abls.allenpress.com/ABLS/).

The American Bryological and Lichenological Society was founded in 1898. It is an organization

S holds annual meetings in July or August. Field trips are traditionally offered in conjunction with devoted to the scientific study all aspects ofofthe biology of bryophytes eting. Annual meetings are often held jointly with the of Botanical Society America or with meetings and lichen-forming fungi andforisstudent one oftravel the tonation’s oldest botanical cal societies. Support annual meetings is available. organizations. Membership is open to all persons

(professionals and amateurs) with interest in these groups of organisms. More than 550 individuals

year, the Societycurrently gives three awards to recognize distinguished hold membership in the Society, contributions to bryology and e A. J. Sharp Award, is given to a student for an outstanding presentation at the annual meeting; arling Sullivant Award, is given for -the best original research article bryology, published in The Constitution The ABLS Constitution andinBy-Laws govern the operations of the Society and d the Edward Tuckerman Award,and is given for in the2016. best original researchinformation article in lichenology, were revised updated They include on membership, meetings, finances, he Bryologist. The society also provides up to four awards to student members for support of field prohibitions, officers, elections, publications, awards, and dues. ts.

Society are elected journal every (The other year byforopen ballot. and Thea current officers include a he Society publishes both a officers quarterly international Bryologist) professionals president-elect, and aMore secretary-treasurer. The society l journal (Evansia) president, for both amateurs and professionals. information about these items canisbegoverned by an Executive that (www.abls.org). includes the officers, the chair or the financial advisory committee, the webmaster, ublications page ofCommittee the ABLS website the two journal editors (Evansia and The Bryologist), the two most recent past presidents, and

anges - The Societymembers-at-large. also sponsors 3 specimen exchanges (lichens,ofhepatics, and mosses), to help – include – Larry St. Clair, Current members the Executive Committee re identified specimens from diverse geographic President; Catherine La regions. Farge, President-elect; Suzy Will-Wolf, Secretary; Scott Schuette,

Treasurer; Jim Lawrey, editor – The Bryologist; Scott LaGreca, editor – Evansia; Jim Bennett, chair of the financial advisory Committee, Peter Nelson, Web Master and member-at-large, Jessica Budke, member-at-large, Theresa Clark, student member-at-large; Jon Shawn, past president, and Roger Rosentreter, past president. Membership Services - A directory of current members, information about membership dues, and applications for individuals wishing to join ABLS may be found on the membership services page (www.abls.org).

Meetings - The Society (ABLS) holds annual meetings in July or August, and field trips are normally offered in conjunction with the annual meeting. Annual meetings are often held jointly with the Botanical Society of America or with meetings of other biological societies. Support for student travel to annual meetings is available – student presentations and membership is required. -37-

Participating Societies Awards - Each year, the Society gives three awards to recognize distinguished contributions to bryology and lichenology: The A. J. Sharp Award, is given to a student for the most outstanding presentation at the annual meeting; the William Starling Sullivant Award, is awarded for the most distinguished, original research article in bryology, published in The Bryologist; and the Edward Tuckerman Award, is awarded for the most distinguished, original research article in lichenology, published in The Bryologist. The Society also provide 4 student field research awards annually – 2 in lichenology (The Culberson & Hale Awards for Student Field Research in Lichenology) and 2 in bryology (The Anderson & Crum Awards for Student Field Research in Bryology) – consult the ABLS website for details – student membership is required. Publications - The Society publishes both a quarterly research journal (The Bryologist) and a journal which publishes floristic surveys and other regional natural history publications in lichenology and bryology (Evansia). Both journals are peer-reviewed. More information about the ABLS journals can be found on the publications page of the ABLS website (www.abls.org). Specimen Exchanges - The Society also sponsors specimen exchanges, to help members acquire identified specimens from diverse geographic regions. Specifically, ABLS sponsors – 3 specimen exchanges – lichenized fungi, liverworts and hornworts, and mosses. The lichen exchange is managed by Steven D. Leavitt at Brigham Young University, the moss exchange is managed by Jim Shevock at the California Academy, and the liverwort-hornwort exchange is managed by John Atwood at the Missouri Botanical Gardens.

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Participating Societies

International Association for Plant Taxonomy Main Office (contact for applications): International Bureau for Plant Taxonomy and Nomenclature, c/o Institute of Botany, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, office@iapt-taxon.org

Vision "Botanical systematics, in the broadest sense, understood and valued by society."

Mission "To promote all aspects of botanical systematics and its significance to the understanding and value of biodiversity."

Association The IAPT was founded on July 18, 1950 at the Seventh International Botanical Congress in Stockholm, Sweden. The Association promotes an understanding of plant biodiversity, facilitates international communication of research between botanists, and oversees matters of uniformity and stability in plant names. The IAPT is dedicated to organismal biodiversity the extent, recognition, organisation, evolution, and naming of plants and fungi, both living and fossil. To those wishing to be at the forefront of these issues, membership in IAPT will be rewarding. The IAPT maintains the International Bureau for Plant Taxonomy and Nomenclature, and engages in a wide range of activities consistent with its focus. The IAPT was founded to carry out projects of interest and concern to systematic botanists which require or profit from international cooperation. By 2017, for example, no less than 158 volumes of the series Regnum Vegetabile had been published, including such well-known titles as the numerous editions of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (now International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants), the Index Nominum Genericorum, Taxonomic Literature (two editions), and Index Herbariorum (pt. 1 and 2). In addition, six issues of the journal TAXON are published each year, the annual volume presently consisting of approx. 1800 pages. IAPT is responsible for the establishment and functioning of inter-Congress nomenclature committees and for the organization and execution of the nomenclature sessions at each International Botanical Congress.

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Participating Societies

International Association for Plant Taxonomy Main Office: International Bureau for Plant Taxonomy and Nomenclature, c/o Institute of Botany, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, office@iapt-taxon.org

Officers President: Vicki Funk, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA, funkv@si.edu Past-President: David Mabberley, Botanic Gardens Trust New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, David.Mabberley@rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au Vice-President: Sandra Knapp, Natural History Museum, London, U.K., s.knapp@nhm.ac.uk Secretary-General: Karol Marhold, Institute of Botany, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic / Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, karol.marhold@savba.sk Editor of Taxon: Joachim W. Kadereit, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, kadereit@unimainz.de Treasurer: Josef Greimler, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, josef.greimler@univie.ac.at Reserve Fund Manager: Warren L. Wagner, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., wagnerw@si.edu

Council Members William Buck, New York Botanical Garden, New York, U.S.A., bbuck@nybg.org Lynn Clark, Iowa State University, Ames, U.S.A., lgclark@iastate.edu Ana Crespo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, acrespo@farm.ucm.es Jorge Crisci, Museo de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina, crisci@fcnym.unlp.edu.ar Sebsebe Demissew, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, sebseb.demissew@gmail.com Lucia Lohmann, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, llohmann@usp.br Gonzalo Nieto Feliner, Real Jardín Botánico C.S.I.C., Madrid, Spain, nieto@rjb.csic.es Kathleen Pryer, Duke University, Durham, U.S.A., pryer@duke.edu Nicholas Turland, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, U.S.A. nicholas.turland@mobot.org Xian-Chun Zhang, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Beijing, P. R. China, zhangxc@ibcas.ac.cn

Staff Managing Secretary: Eva Senková, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, office@iapt-taxon.org Managing Editor: Berit Gehrke and Michael Pirie, Mainz, Germany, editors@iapt-taxon.org Production Editor: Franz Stadler, Vienna, Austria, production@iapt-taxon.org

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IAPT Research Grants Program in Plant Systematics Maximum individual award: US $1,000 The objective of these grants is to stimulate research in plant taxonomy world-wide, with emphasis on supporting students and investigators in developing countries. The competition is open, however, to applicants from all countries. Persons applying should be advanced students enrolled in graduate programs or young Ph.D. investigators. It is hoped that investment in young professionals or those in the process of becoming such will pay needed dividends for the future, especially in countries with limited resources but often with megadiversity floras.

Awarded grants 2017 Qian ZHANG, China, Phylogenomic tree reconstruction of Dorstenieae (Moraceae) using a Hyb-Seq approach: implications for breeding system evolution in Moraceae Thien-Tam LUONG, Vietnam, Diversification, taxonomy and phylogeny of Meteoriaceae, focusing on Meteorium and Barbella s. lat. Marco Antonio CUEVA MANCHEGO, Peru, Taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships in Lycianthes serie Strigulosae (Solanaceae) of Peru Maria Adolfina SAVORETTI, Argentina, Systematic affinities of Early Cretaceous Polytrichaceae (Polytrichopsida, Bryophyta) of western North America – an inquiry into the evolution of polytrichaceous mosses Serena ACHA, Bolivia, Vines in the Andes: diversification and historical biogeography in passion flowers Farzaneh JAFARI, Iran, Phylogeny and biogeography of Silene (Caryophyllaceae) using a large dataset of Next Generation Sequencing Shokouh ESMAILBEGI KERMANI, Iran, Systematics and phylogeny of the tribe Thlaspideae (Brassicaceae) Rebeca HERNÁNDEZ-GUTIÉRREZ, Mexico, A genus-level phylogeny of Malvaceae s.l. from a Next Generation Sequencing approach Masoumeh MAHMOUDI SHAMSABAD, Iran, Molecular phylogeny and evolutionary history of Acanthophyllum squarrosum species complex based on nuclear and plastid DNA sequences Duane FERNANDES DE SOUZA LIMA, Brazil, Molecular phylogeny and taxonomic revision of Myrcia clade Guianensis (Myrtaceae: Myrteae) Taimy CANTILLO PÉREZ, Cuba, Integrating morphological and phylogenetic characters to describe Caatinga hyphomycetes diversity in areas of the Semiarid Biodiversity Research Program (PPBio / Semi-Arid) Pablo MORONI, Argentina, Phylogenetic studies in tribe Duranteae (Verbenaceae) with special reference to the genus Duranta L. Caroline Oliveira ANDRINO, Brazil, Systematics of Paepalanthus Mart. (Eriocaulaceae) Nicolás Fernando BRIGNONE, Argentina, Taxonomy, phylogenetic relationships and evolution of Atriplex lineages (Amaranthaceae, Chenopodioideae, Atripliceae) in South America Johanna JANTZEN, U.S.A., Diversification and niche evolution in Neotropical Tibouchina s.s. (Melastomataceae) M.G. PRASAD, India, Taxonomic revision and molecular phylogeny of Linderniaceae in India Carla POLESELLI BRUNIERA, Brazil, Biogeography and diversification of Palicoureeae (Rubiaceae), with focus in neotropical groups Paola de Lima FERREIRA, Brazil, Understanding the early evolution of Asteraceae: Systematic and historical biogeography insights of Barnadesioideae V.S. HAREESH, India, Taxonomic revision of the genus Impatiens L. (Balsaminaceae) in North-East India Anna Patricia GERONG, Philippines, Genetic diversity of Vallisneria L. and Najas L. (Hydrocharitaceae) in major lakes of Luzon Island, Philippines

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Participating Societies

The American Fern Society evolved from the Linnaean Fern Chapter of the Agassiz Association, which was founded in 1892 by five people united by their mutual interest in the study of ferns. At that time, the Agassiz Association published the quarterly Linnaean Fern Bulletin, which contained original research, reports of field trips and floristic discoveries, and business and news. Because the Chapter was so small, it allowed W. N. Clute, its first president, to assume ownership of the Bulletin. By mid-1905, when a vote to adopt the name American Fern Society passed, 150 members were counted, few of them professional botanists. A memberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s library was begun to circulate fern books by mail. In 1910, the Society voted to establish and own the American Fern Journal, and the Bulletin ceased publication in 1912. The Society grew fitfully through several decades and then rapidly due to the invigoration of botanical science after World War II. A fern spore exchange was established to provide amateur horticulturalists and botanical researchers with a wide variety of fern spores. By the 1970s, the Journal published mostly scientific papers, and so a newsletter, now called the Fiddlehead Forum, was established to carry Society news, reports of field trips, and articles of interest to horticulturally and floristically inclined members. In 1979, a very occasional monograph series, Pteridologia, was begun. At present, the Society has about 800 members, many of them botanists. The American Fern Society remains active in promoting all aspects of fern study, which was the intent of its five founders. Visit us at www.amerfernsoc.org and join the American Fern Society group on Facebook.

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American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT) The American Society of Plant Taxonomists promotes the field of systematic botany through education, training, and public dissemination of original research on plants. Organized in 1935, the Society has a membership of approximately 1000. Information about dues, activities, and publications is available at the ASPT headquarters during the meeting and may be found at the ASPT website (www.aspt.net) or obtained from the ASPT Business Office (aspt@uwyo.edu). The Society publishes Systematic Botany, a quarterly journal that is included with the membership dues. A basic subscription includes online access to the journal through Ingenta. The print copy is available for an additional fee. ASPT also publishes Systematic Botany Monographs at irregular intervals; standing orders are available. SBM current and past volumes may be purchased at aspt.net. All SBM volumes may be found online at JSTOR with a five-year moving wall. Abstracts of papers presented at the annual meeting are published with those of the Botanical Society of America and are available online and at the meeting. The Society sponsors an extensive, annual competition for research grants for graduate student investigators. Support is available for students (both masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and doctoral levels) conducting fieldwork, herbarium travel, and/or laboratory research in any area of plant systematics. The Society also provides 45 grants each year for student travel to the annual meeting and additional financial support to students participating in field trips. Up to three Undergraduate Research Prizes may be awarded each year for outstanding, independent research projects in plant systematics completed by an undergraduate student within the previous two years. The 2016 URP winners were Alice Butler, Bucknell University, and Michelle Garcia, University of Texas at El Paso. The Innovations in Plant Systematics Education Prize is given periodically by the Society and awarded to an educator who has developed novel and innovative resources for teaching plant systematics to undergraduate and/or graduate students. The 2015 IPSEP winner was Lena Struwe, Rutgers University. The Botanical Advocacy Leadership Grant, which is jointly offered with the Botanical Society of America, provides support for local efforts that contribute to shaping public policy on issues relevant to plant sciences. This award was first offered in 2016 and the recipient, Dr. Michael Dunn, used the funding to support grassroots events in Oklahoma. The George R. Cooley Award is given for the outstanding contributed paper presented by a young professional at the annual meeting. The 2016 winner was Thomas Stoughton, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. The Peter H. Raven Scientific Outreach Award may be bestowed annually by the Society upon a plant systematist for exceptional outreach activities that advance the public's understanding of plant systematics. In 2016, the award was presented to Lynn G. Clark. The annual Asa Gray Award honors individuals for outstanding accomplishments pertinent to the goals of the Society. Dr. Peter F. Stevens was the 2016 Asa Gray Award recipient. In 2006, Drs. Barbara D. Webster and Susan V. Webster established the Grady L. Webster Award to honor the work of their husband and father, respectively. This is a rotating award that is presented in alternate years by the ASPT and the BSA. At the Botany 2016 meeting, the Grady L. Webster Plant Systematics Publication Award was presented by ASPT to

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Shayla Salzman (UC Berkeley) for her paper (co-authored by Heather E. Driscoll, Tanya Renner, Thiago AndrĂŠ, Stac Shen, and Chelsea D. Specht) in Systematic Botany 40(1).

The list of ASPT officers, representatives, and editors for the 2017 academic year (1 September 2016 to 31 August 2017) are: President JEFFREY J. DOYLE, School of Integrative Plant Sciences, 240 Emerson Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853. Tele: (607) 255-2180. Email: jjd5@cornell.edu Past President TOM A. RANKER, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Botany, 3190 Maile Way, Room 101, Honolulu, HI 96822. Tele: (808) 956-8304. Email: tom.ranker@gmail.com President-Elect CHELSEA D. SPECHT, University of California, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, 431 Koshland Hall, MC3102, Berkeley, CA 94720. Tele: (510) 642-5601. Email: cdspecht@berkeley.edu Secretary NYREE J.C. ZEREGA, Northwestern University and The Chicago Botanic Garden, Plant Biology and Conservation, 2205 Tech Drive, 2-144 Hogan Hall, Evanston, IL 60208. Tele: (847) 467-1266. Email: nzerega@chicagobotanic.org Treasurer AUSTIN R. MAST, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, 319 Stadium Drive, Tallahassee, FL 32306. Tele: (850) 645-1500. Email: amast@bio.fsu.edu Program Director HARVEY E. BALLARD, JR., Environmental and Plant Biology, Ohio University, 315 Porter Hall, Richland Avenue, Athens, OH 45701-2979. Tele: (740) 593-4659. Email: ballardh@ohio.edu Finance Committee Chair WARREN L. WAGNER, Department of Botany, MRC-166, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013. Tele: (202) 633-0968. Email: wagnerw@si.edu Editor-in-Chief, Systematic Botany JAMES F. SMITH, Boise State University, Department of Biological Sciences, 1910 University Drive, MS1515, Boise, ID 83725-1515. Tele: (208) 426-3551. Email: jfsmith@boisestate.edu Editor-in-Chief, Systematic Botany Monographs DAVID J. KEIL, Biological Sciences Department, California Polytechnic State University, One Grand Avenue, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407. Tele: (805) 756-2043. Email: dkeil@calpoly.edu

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Communications Coordinator EMILY B. SESSA, University of Florida, Department of Biology, Box 118525, Gainesville, FL 32611. Tele: (352) 392-1098. Email: emilysessa@ufl.edu Webmaster MARK H. MAYFIELD, Division of Biology, Ackert Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506. Tele: (785) 532-2795. Email: markherb@ksu.edu Local Meeting Representative PETER W. FRITSCH, Botanical Research Institute of Texas. Email: pfritsch@brit.org Representative to AIBS JANELLE BURKE, Department of Biology, Howard University, 415 College St. NW, Washington, DC 20059. Tel: 202-806-4172 Email: janelle.burke@howard.edu Representative to AAAS ASHLEY EGAN, Smithsonian Institution. Email: EganA@si.edu Representative to NSCA JANELLE BURKE, Department of Biology, Howard University, 415 College St. NW, Washington, DC 20059. Tel: 202-806-4172 Email: janelle.burke@howard.edu The Society maintains the following standing committees: Awards and Honors, Communications, Environment and Public Policy, Finance, Membership, Nominations, Promotional Materials (formerly Publicity), Public Relations, Publications, Systematic Collections, and Website. There are currently no ad hoc committees. The publications of the Society each have an Editorial Committee. Reports on activities of the committees can be found online at www.aspt.net. Information about current and upcoming issues of Systematic Botany Monographs is available at the SBM website (http://www.aspt.net/, select the Monographs tab). For ASPT membership information, contact Linda Brown, Manager, ASPT Business Office, University of Wyoming, Department of Botany 3165, 1000 E University Avenue, Laramie, WY 82071. Tele: (307) 766-2556. Fax: (307) 766-2851. Email: aspt@uwyo.edu

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The American Society of Plant Taxonomists 2017 Membership Application & Renewal Form To submit your renewal payment or application electronically, please go to: https://members.aspt.net/ and select the Membership Payment link Basic Membership Price that includes online only access to Systematic Botany: Regular Member: $70.00 --Student/Postdoc/DevCountry Member: $30.00 --- Retired Member $40.00 --- Emeritus Member $0 For Print Copy of Vol. 42 Systematic Botany, add $60 (U.S. delivery) or $80 (delivery outside the U.S.) Renewal Please complete the Name and City fields along with your payment information. Use the other fields for additions or corrections to your information currently on file at the ASPT Business Office. New Member Please enter the year you would like your membership to begin The ASPT membership year runs from January through December.

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ASPT Award and Grant Funds Asa Gray Award Fund The Asa Gray medal was established to recognize outstanding scientists for their contributions to systematics research. Your donation will fund the medal and associated expenses. George R. Cooley Award Fund Established in 1956, the George R. Cooley Award may be bestowed annually by the Society upon a botanist in the early stages of his/her career who is judged to have presented the best paper in plant systematics at the Annual Meeting. Members of ASPT who are graduate students or in their first year post conferral of the Ph.D. are eligible. Contributions to the George R. Cooley Award Fund are used to help pay for the honorarium given to the awardee and other award expenses. The Grady L. Webster Plant Systematics Publication Award Fund This award fund was created in 2006 by Drs. Barbara D. Webster and Susan V. Webster to honor the work of their husband and father. The Grady L. Webster Award alternates between BSA (odd-numbered years) and ASPT (even-numbered years). In 2018, ASPT will present the next Grady L. Webster Plant Systematics Publication Award, recognizing the best published paper in Systematic Botany or Systematic Botany Monographs during 2016 and 2017. Your donation to this fund will be used to support this biennial award. Graduate Student Research Grant Funds Contributions support students (both master's and doctoral levels) conducting field work, herbarium travel, and/or laboratory research in any area of plant systematics. Your contribution to any one of the research grant funds listed below will supplement the earnings from the fund and will directly benefit ASPT graduate students by maximizing the amount of money Council can spend on research grants. Every year the ASPT presents 10-15 research grants to promising young scientists. In 2016, research grants were awarded to 24 ASPT student members. • General Graduate Student Research Grant Fund • Shirley and Alan Graham Graduate Student Research Grant Fund This fund was generously endowed by the Grahams in 2002 and represents the first dedicated ASPT student research grant fund. • William R. Anderson Graduate Student Research Grant Fund As the second dedicated ASPT student research grant fund, this fund was established in 2002 in honor of William R. Anderson through contributions from colleagues and former students. • Rogers McVaugh Graduate Student Research Grant Fund Created in 2004 through contributions from his colleagues and former students, this student research grant fund honors Rogers McVaugh's dedicated, exceptional career. • W. Hardy Eshbaugh Graduate Student Research Grant Fund Announced in 2011 and created through contributions from his colleagues, former students, and the ASPT Council, this student research grant fund honors W. Hardy Eshbaugh’s dedication to mentoring students. ASPT Herbarium Emergency Fund Created in September 2005, the fund will provide financial assistance to herbaria damaged by natural disasters. Through your generous donations, this fund has exceeded ASPT's fundraising goals, and we are not actively soliciting donations at this time. Major Gifts: We also welcome and encourage your generous donations to the ASPT General Fund and the permanently restricted ASPT Endowment Fund. ASPT General Fund Gifts to the ASPT General Fund are exceptionally valuable to the Society. These unrestricted gifts are deposited in the ASPT investment account and can be drawn on by the Council to help pay for any of the wide range of initiatives that your Society engages in to promote plant systematics. A healthy General Fund helps to insulate ASPT from the volatile journal subscription revenue stream and other unanticipated financial challenges that professional societies face today. ASPT Endowment Fund The ASPT Endowment Fund is a permanently restricted fund that generates income that is used to support special Society initiatives, such as travel to meetings, workshops, and publications. Your generous contribution to the ASPT Endowment Fund benefits ASPT members and the plant systematics community by increasing the size of the endowment, which in turn increases the earnings that we can spend in support of Society initiatives. Because the payout percentage for endowment funds is 5%, we prefer that gifts are at least $1,000. If you are interested in giving to either of these funds please contact the ASPT President, Jeff Doyle jjd5@cornell.edu to discuss your generous gift. All contributions are tax-deductible.

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Promoting and strengthening the vital roles that herbaria play in science and society ABOUT The Society of Herbarium Curators (SHC) is an international organization uniting herbaria for the benefit of herbaria, science, and society in discussion, training, action, and support. RESEARCH AWARDS Deadline: Annually on February 1 Scope: Two $500 (graduate) and one $250 (undergraduate) will be awarded to students whose research contributes to or uses herbarium resources in ways that augment the collections.

THE VASCULUM NEWSLETTER The bi-annual newsletter promotes activities of the SHC community through the "Featured Herbarium" column, updates on new initiatives and resources, and other useful content. ANNUAL MEETING The general membership meeting will occur at Botany 2017 on Tuesday, June 27, from noon–1:30 p.m. SHC is co-organizing (with iDigBio, NSF's National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections) the "Strategic Planning for Your Herbarium" workshop on Thursday, June 29, from 8 a.m. to noon. Check the Botany 2017 program for locations for these events. Preregistration is required for the workshop. MEMBERSHIP Annual dues: Student ($5 USD), Regular ($10), Sustaining ($25), Life ($200). FURTHER INFO www.herbariumcurators.org—Twitter: @socherbcurators—Find us on Facebook! CONTACTS Austin Mast, Florida State Univ., President, 2016–18, amast@bio.fsu.edu Andrea Weeks, George Mason Univ., Past-President, 2016–18, aweeks3@gmu.edu

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Be Sure to Visit and Support 0ur Exhibitors! ASPT.................................................................................................312 http://www.aspt.net

Aurora Storage Products, Inc...........................................................211 http://www.aurorastorage.com/

Blue Beehive Studio..........................................................................313 https://www.etsy.com/shop/BlueBeehiveStudio Blue Beehive Studio was created by Melissa A. Moore. Inspired by her graduate background in biology, she breathes new life into scientific shapes, symbols, and curiosities by transforming them into functional pieces of jewelry and art.

Botanical Research Institute of Texas..............................................206 http://www.brit.org/ BRIT Press strives to further the conservation mission of its parent institution, Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), through innovation and excellence in the preparation, manufacture, and worldwide distribution of botanical research and scientific discoveries for the twenty-first century. For over five decades, BRIT has served the scientific and lay communities through its scholarly periodical Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (formerly, Sida, Contributions to Botany) and through books devoted to comprehensive botanical studies ranging from floras to systematic monographs to botanical histories. BRIT Press… Bringing out the best in botanical science for plant conservation and education.

BSA...................................................................................................111 www.botany.org

Conviron...........................................................................................212 http://www.conviron.com/ Conviron is the world leader in the design, manufacture and installation of controlled environment systems for plant science and agricultural biotechnology research. Conviron’s reach-in plant growth chambers, walk-in rooms and Argus Control Systems (a Conviron company) provide precise, uniform, and repeatable control of temperature, light, humidity, dehumidification, CO2, and other environmental conditions. All environmental parameters can be remotely programmed, monitored and analyzed with unparalleled accuracy and convenience. With installations in more than 90 countries, Conviron’s projects range from small single-chamber installations to large scale, multi-chamber facilities in some of the most prestigious corporate, university and research institutions around the world. Our innovative design and manufacturing expertise has established Conviron as the industry leader with products that are proven, reliable and robust. Learn more at www.conviron.com or contact us at info@conviron.com

Flora North America........................................................................207 http://floranorthamerica.org/

IAPT.................................................................................................103 http://www.iapt-taxon.org/index_layer.php

iDigBio..............................................................................................113 https://www.idigbio.orgs iDigBio is the national resource for digitized information about existing, vouchered natural history collections and as such promotes the uses of biological/paleontological collections data by the scientific community and stakeholders including government agencies, educational institutions, NGOs, and other national and international entities to benefit science and society through enhanced research, educational, and outreach activities. .

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Exhibitors LI-COR Biosciences.........................................................................213 https://www.licor.com/ Come visit LI-COR’s booth #213 at this years’ Botany conference to talk about our instruments for environmental research, including the exciting new LI-6800 Portable Photosynthesis System. The LI-6800 features improved gas analyzer precision, light source uniformity, flow path design, environmental controls, and a larger leaf aperture, coupled with a touch screen interface that provides real-time guidance from the instrument. The LI-6800 sets a new global standard for gas exchange and fluorescence measurements in every aspect. We will also have information about the LI-COR Environmental Education Fund (LEEF), a matching grants program developed to put research-grade instrumentation into the hands of undergraduate students at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions. Available LEEF packages include complete systems for measuring photosynthesis or respiration, Eddy Covariance, light, and soil gas flux.

Missouri Botanical Garden Press....................................................302 www.mbgpress.org The Missouri Botanical Garden Press plays a key role in the Garden’s mission to discover and share knowledge about plants and their environment and provides an important outlet for the dissemination of botanical research. The Press publishes two peer-reviewed quarterly journals—Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden and Novon, A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature—in addition to book-length titles and monographs, primarily in plant systematics and evolution.

New York Botanical Garden Press...................................................202 http://www.nybgpress.org NYBG Press is one of the largest publishing programs of any independent botanical garden in the world and provides a means for communication of research carried out by scientists across the globe. Established in 1896, the program focuses on advancements in knowledge about the classification, utilization, and conservation of plants and fungi. Visit NYBGPress.org for available book titles and current promotions. The Best New Books in Botany™

Nordic Journal of Botany.................................................................105 http://www.nordicjbotany.org Nordic Journal of Botany publishes original contributions on all aspects of the taxonomy, evolution, conservation and biogeography of plants (including algae and bryophytes) and fungi. Nordic Journal of Botany was founded in 1981 and is published by the Nordic Society Oikos, which is constituted by members of Oikos Societies in the Nordic countries. Nordic Journal of Botany has no publication fee, aims to have a fast handling time and has a Journal Impact factor of 0,92 (2015). NJB publishes 6 issues annually and welcomes botanical studies from all countries. Follow us on social media (FB & Twitter: @NordicJBotany, Weibo: Nordic_Journal_of_Botany).

Planting Science...............................................................................210 http://www.plantingscience.org/

PP Systems........................................................................................201 www.ppsystems.com Ask for a demonstration of our popular CIRAS-3 Portable Photosynthesis System - the most mobile leaf gas exchange system available for high-level field research! A “true differential analyzer”, The CIRAS-3’s 4 independent, non-dispersive gas analyzers make it the most accurate mobile system for simultaneous measurement and control of CO2 and H2O. It measures chlorophyll fluorescence and soil/canopy efflux too! Also learn more about our high precision, compact, non-dispersive infrared gas analyzers for accurate CO2 measurement. Ask how our innovative “Auto-Zero” technology affects warm-up, long-term stability, accuracy, and calibration. We also represent Hansatech (chlorophyll fluorometers/oxygen electrodes); Skye (light/ meteorological sensors); Gill (ultrasonic anemometers/compact weather stations); and bbe Moldaenke (algae/chlorophyll a spectrofluorometers). Already a customer? Definitely stop by! Tell us how you use our instruments! Our passion is to continuously design innovative instruments for our plant/soil science researchers. Nothing is more rewarding than hearing how our instruments assist in achieving your research goals. -53-

Exhibitors Phyto Technology Laboratories.......................................................200 For 20 years, PhytoTechnology Laboratories® has been one of the leading suppliers for competitively-priced, high-quality products for your plant tissue culture and plant molecular biology research. PhytoTechnology Laboratories carries more than 1000 products for the plant sciences, including plant and microbiology media, antibiotics, molecular biology reagents, culture vessels and small lab equipment, growth regulators and gelling agents, and much more. Discover the difference that PhytoTech quality can make in your research by visiting www.phytotechlab.com.

PhbeaD.............................................................................................304 www.PhbeaD.com I combine a love of science with art by handcrafting resin jewelry with insect wings in silver or brass. My work retains the genuine colors and patterns in nature with no two pieces exactly alike.

Society of Herbarium Curators........................................................100 http://www.herbariumcurators.org/

Texas Botanical Prints......................................................................107 The Southern Appalachian Botanical Club.....................................205 In 1935 The Southern Appalachian Botanical Club was formed at West Virginia University for “all persons interested in the botany of the Southern Appalachian Mountains.” Today, the name and purpose has changed slightly to the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society (SABS) with its focus on the botany of the eastern states. The membership includes professional and amateur botanists from across the country who are interested in eastern botany, in the journal Castanea, and in the activities of the society. Members receive online and print access to the journal, regular society updates in our quarterly newsletter Chinquapin, and the opportunity for research and travel funding. Membership is inexpensive, as low as $45 for professionals and $20 for students. Students who register or renew their membership at the Botany 2017 conference will receive a free t-shirt or field-hat

Taylor and Francis............................................................................115 http://www.tandfonline.com

Torrey Botanical Society..................................................................204 http://www.torreybotanical.org/

University Chicago Press..................................................................203 http://www.press.uchicago.edu/index.html

USVH/Somaliland Biodiversity Foundation...................................306 http://www.usvhproject.org http://www.somalilandbiodiversity.org

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Exhibitors

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The Profit of the Earth

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The Global Seeds of American Agriculture

A Cultural History

Jim Endersby

Courtney Fullilove

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The Book of orchids

Evolution Made to order Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America

helen Anne Curry CloTh $45.00

Leaves in Science and Culture CloTh $35.00

Mark Chase, Maarten Christenhusz, and Tom Mirenda CloTh $55.00

Nature’s Fabric David lee

A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from around the World

Plant Evolution An Introduction to the History of Life

Karl J. Niklas PAPEr $45.00

Phylogeny and Evolution of the Angiosperms Revised and Updated Edition

Douglas Soltis, Pamela Soltis, Peter Endress, Mark Chase, Steven Manchester, Walter Judd, lucas Majure, and Evgeny Mavrodiev CloTh $80.00

A Portable latin for Gardeners More than 1,500 Essential Plant Names and the Secrets They Contain

James Armitage

Plants of the World An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Vascular Plants

Maarten Christenhusz, Michael F. Fay, and Mark W. Chase Copublished with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew CloTh $95.00

Pollination Power heather Angel

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Botany 2017

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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM FRIDAY, JUNE 23RD 6:00 AM - 11:00 PM

Botany 2017 Office

Black Angus Board Room

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Conference Registration Open

Main Lobby

SATURDAY, JUNE 24TH 6:00 AM - 11:00 PM

Botany 2017 Office

Black Angus Board Room

7:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Field Trip Continental Breakfast

Main Lobby

7:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Conference Registration

Main Lobby

Field Trip participants meet in Main Lobby at least 15 minutes before your trip is scheduled to leave. Continental breakfast, water and lunches will be provided 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Ferns of North Central Texas

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Geobotany of LBJ National Grasslands

8:00 AM - 3:30 PM

Bryophytes and Lichens in North Central Texas (sponsored by ABLS)

8:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge and Light Catcher Winery

8:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Tandy Hills Natural Area and Rahr & Sons Brewing Company

9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) and Fort Worth Botanic Garden

9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Cowboys and Rangers

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Coffee Break

Main Lobby

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Coffee Break

Main Lobby

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

BSA Board Meeting

Sundance 6

6:30 PM - 10:00 PM

BSA Board Dinner

Sundance 6

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SUNDAY, JUNE 25TH 6:00 AM - 11:00 PM

Botany 2017 Conference Office

Stockyards 2

7:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Field Trip Continental BreakfastFort Worth Ballroom 5

7:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Continental Breakfast

Texas Ballroom Foyer

7:00 AM - 7:00 PM

Conference Registration

Texas Ballroom Foyer

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM BSA Investment Committee - Texas Longhorn Board Room 15th Floor 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

WS01 - Introduction to Scientific Computing: A Crash Course Sundance 3 Presented by: Lawrence, Travis Joseph* - Carper, Dana

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

WS02 - Using Digitized Herbarium Data in Research: Applications for Ecology, Phylogenetics, and Biogeography Sundance 4 Presented by: Soltis, Pamela S.* - Soltis, Douglas E. - Folk, Ryan - Beach, James

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM WS03 - Introduction to Next Generation Sequencing Sundance 1 Presented by:Straub, Shannon C.K.* - Fishbein, Mark 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

WS04 - Introduction to botanical drawing with Betsy Barry Sundance 5 Presented by: Barry, Betsy

8:30 AM - 2:00 PM

ASPT Council Meeting

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Exhibit Hall Set-up and Hang Posters

Sundance 6 Exhibit Hall

Field Trip participants meet in Fort Worth Ballroom 5 at least 15 minutes before your trip is scheduled to leave. Continental breakfast, water and lunches will be provided 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

A Fern Loverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Haven: Casa Flora, a World-Leading Producer of Ferns

9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) and Fort Worth Botanic Garden

9:00 AM - 12:30 PM WS06 - Planting Inquiry in Science Classrooms Presented by: Uno, Gordon - Adams, Catrina* - Sundberg, Marshall Workshop will be held at BRIT - ride the field trip bus for the session -60-

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM WS05 - AIBS Communicating Science to Decision-makers Sundance 2 Presented by: Gropp, Robert 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Coffee Break

Texas Ballroom Foyer

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM WS07 - The Cornell University Plant Anatomy Collection: an online resource for teaching and research Fort Worth Ballroom 7 Presented by: Gandolfo, Maria A* - Nixon, Kevin C. 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM BSA International Affairs Committee Texas Longhorn Board Room - 15th Floor 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Human Diversity in Botany Committee Meeting Black Angus Board Room - 15th Floor 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM BSA Technology Committee MeetingTexas Longhorn Board Room - 15th Floor 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM WS08 - Tips for Success: Applying to Graduate School Fort Worth Ballroom 7 Presented by: Monfils, Anna K* - Sakai, Ann 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM WS09 - Faculty Life at an Undergraduate Institution Fort Worth Ballroom 8 Presented by: Moore, Michael J.* - Martine, Christopher Krakos, Kyra - Theiss, Kathryn 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

WS10 - Machine learning with R for botanists Sundance 2 Presented by: Shipunov, Alexey

2:30 PM - 3:15 PM

BSA Publications Committee Meeting

3:15 PM - 5:00 PM

BSA Council Meeting

3:15 PM - 5:15 PM

WS11 - Cutting the cord; a workshop for computer-free presentation skills Fort Worth Ballroom 7 Presented by: McDaniel, James* - Povilus, Rebecca

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

WS12 - Annual Meeting of the US Virtual Herbarium Project (WERA 1015) Sundance 6 Presented by: Barkworth, Mary

Sundance 6

Fort Worth Ballroom 8

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Student Conference Assistants Orientation Texas Ballroom G, H, I, J 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM BSA Development Committee Meeting Black Angus Board Room - 15th Floor

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5:00 PM - 6:15 PM

PLANTS Student and Mentor Orientation Meeting (by invitation only) Fort Worth Ballroom 5

6:15 PM - 7:30 PM BSA Education Committee Meeting Hospitality Room 540 - 5th Floor 6:15 PM - 7:15 PM

Undergraduate Reception

Fort Worth Ballroom 6

7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Plenary Address Robin Kimmerer The Fortress, the River and the Garden: new metaphors for cultivating a symbiosis of indigenous and scientific knowledges Texas Ballroom 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Exhibit Hall Open

Exhibit Hall

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

All Society Mixer

Exhibit Hall

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Monday, JUNE 26TH 6:00 AM - 11:00 PM

Botany 2017 Conference Office

Stockyards 2

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Cornell Botanists and Friends Breakfast Texas Ballroom G 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM President's Breakfast Meeting and Discussion Hospitality Room 540 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Michigan Consortium of Botanists Breakfast Texas Ballroom Foyer 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Continental Breakfast

Texas Ballroom Foyer

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Genetics Section Business Meeting and Breakfast Sundance 1 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM

AJB Editor's Breakfast

7:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Conference Registration

8:00 AM - 9:45 AM 1 Contributed Papers Cookson/Moseley Award Presentations Chair: Michael Dunn

Sundance 6 Texas Ballroom Foyer Sundance 4