Registration for the IAB Conference London 2013 is now open

Dear all,

We are happy to announce that registration for the IAB Conference: 15th-19th July 2013 at the Natural History Museum, London, UK is now open.

Please visit the registration page at: http://iab-conference.blogspot.com/p/conference-registration.html
The post-conference field trip and abstracts pages have also been updated.

We look forward to receiving your abstracts and hope that you will be able to join us also on the post-conference field trip to North Wales. We look forward to seeing you in London in July 2013.

With best wishes,
The conference organisers: Jeff Duckett, Silvia Pressel and Jo Wilbraham

New Book on 'Epiphyllous Liverworts of Eastern Himalaya'

I am pleased to inform that we have recently published a book on 'Epiphyllous Liverworts of Eastern Himalaya' [Monalisa Dey & D.K. Singh, December 2012. Epiphyllous Liverworts of Eastern Himalaya. ISBN: 81-8177-041-2; ₹2336/= / US$ 116/=; pp. viii, 415; 17 × 24 cm [215 line-drawing illustrations / color + B/W photo-plates]dealing with taxonomic account of 89 taxa belonging to orders Metzgeriales, Porellales and Jungermanniales recorded from Indian States of Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Darjeeling subdivision of West Bengal.


The book deals with a comprehensive
and immaculately illustrated taxonomic
treatment of 89 taxa of liverworts
belonging to orders Metzgeriales [07
species and one variety in a single
genus and family], Porellales [75
species and one variety in 16 genera
and 04 families] and Jungermanniales
[05 species in 02 genera and as many
families] that colonize the leaf surface
of vascular plants in the states of
Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and
Darjeeling subdivision of West Bengal.
Identification keys at different
taxonomic hierarchy have been
provided and each species, or the
infraspecific taxon, is immaculately
illustrated with the help of cameralucida
drawings and
photomicrographs.
The book can be procured from the
Scientist-in-Charge, Publication
Section, Botanical Survey of India,
CGO Complex, 3rd MSO Building,
Block F (6th Floor), Sal Lake Sector 1,
Kolkata – 700064 (INDIA),
ssdash2002@yahoo.co.in

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D.K. Singh

Dr D.K. Singh
Scientist F & Additional Director
Botanical Survey of India
CGO Complex, 3rd MSO Building
Block F (5th Floor)
Salt Lake Sector I
Kolkata - 700 064 (INDIA)
Ph./Fax : +91 33 23214050
M: 9433300177

Tardigrade crawls on moss

All bryologists should see today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (March 6)!

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130306.html


Cheers, Mac.

--
Malcolm Sargent
Dept. Plant Biology, Univ. Illinois
265 Morrill Hall, 505 S. Goodwin
Urbana, IL  61801

A new genus of liverworts endemic to western North America

Figure 1.

Rivulariella gemmipara. A. Gynoecium and sporophyte; B. gynoecium with very young sporophyte; C. female bract. (A–C, D.H. Wagner 3543).

Dear Friends,

I have recently published a name and description for a new genus of liverworts endemic to western North America. I mention it here to bring attention to a new digital journal as well as bringing attention to a fascinating plant:

http://www.phytoneuron.net/2013Phytoneuron/10PhytoN-Rivulariella.pdf

David


David H. Wagner, Ph.D.
Northwest Botanical Institute
P.O. Box 30064
Eugene, OR 97403-1064

davidwagner^(at)^mac.com
541-344-3327
http://fernzenmosses.com