Mr. Osvaldo AHUMADA (Facultad de Cs. Agrarias, Cátedra de Botánica General, Casilla de Correro 346, 4.600 - San Salvador de Jujuy, Jujuy, Argentina) is working on Scleria for the Flora of Argentina together with Scleria, Carex and Cladium for the Flora of Paraguay.
Mr. Konraed CAMELBEKE (Laboratory of Plant Systematics, Rijksuniversiteit Gent, Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Gent, Belgium) has started revisionary work on the genus Scleria in the Neotropics.
Dr. Carolyn ENGEL (Dept of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California Riverside, Riverside CA 92507 USA) has a standing interest in the ethnobotany of Cyperus esculentus.
Dr. Brigitta ERSCHBAMER (Institut für Botanik, Universität Innsbruck, Sternwartestrasse 15, A - 6020 Innsbruck, Austria) has standing interests in Carex curvula subsp. curvula and subsp. rosae.
Mrs. Miriam FRITTS (5703 North Lady Lane, Tucson, AZ 85702 USA) has a standing interest in Carex especially from western USA and Mexico.
Dr. J.-F. GIROUX (Dept. Sciences Biologiques, Univ. Québec ŕ Montréal, C.P. 8888, Succ. A., Montréal, QC, H3C 3P8, Canada) has standing interests in the ecology and management of tidal marshes, with a particular interest in Scirpus americanus.
Prof. Dr. E. GOVINDARAJALU (2, 18th Avenue, Ashoknagar, P.O., Madras - 600 083 India) has wide-ranging interests in Cyperaceae including the revision of southern Indian genera, vegetative anatomy of Fimbristylis, Cyperus and Carex, SEM studies and the uitilization of Cyperaceae taxa. He is also carrying out a monograph of Indian Fimbristylis.
Dr. Mikael HEDREN (Department of Systematic Botany, Villavägen 6, S-752 36, Uppsala, Sweden) is studying the Carex flava group in Northern Europe.
Mr. F.A. HEINZEN (Catedra Botanica, I, Facultad de Agronomia y Veterninaria, Universida Nacional de Litoral, R.P. Kreder 2805, 3080 Esperanza (SF), Argentina) has standing interests in the ontogeny of growth and reproduction patterns in Cyperus corymbosus var. subnodosus, an invading species in natural pastures.
Dr. Peter N. JOHNSON (Landcare Research, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand) has a standing interest in Cyperaceae of New Zealand especially in wetlands.
Dr. Simon LĆGAARD (University of Aarhus, Herbarium, Build. 137, DU-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark) has standing interests in the Poaceae and Cyperaceae of Ecuador.
Prof. Dr. Michel LELONG (Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama 36688 USA) tells us that he is primarily interested in grasses, especially Panicum species of North America, but he is also curious about sedges, particularly those occurring in South Alabama and exhibiting unusual patterns of morphological variation similar to those found in Panicum subgen. Dichanthelium species (e.g. Rhynchospora).
Ing. Vlastimil MIKOLAS (23 Manes St., Bot. Garden-Herbarium, SK -043 52 Kosice, Slovakia) has standing interests in the genera Cyperus (s.l.), Eleocharis, Blysmus and Carex. He has a new project looking at Cyperaceae in the central Hornád Valley, eastern Slovakia.
Prof. Dr. L.E. MORA-OSEJO (Calle 41 no. 77A - 35, Santafé de Bogotá, Colombia) has standing interests in the morphology and anatomy of Cyperaceae, particularly the morphology of inflorescences. He is carrying out a revision of the Colombian species of Rhynchospora and Oreobolus.
Mr. Abraham M. MUASYA (East African Herbarium, PO Box 45166, Nairobi, Kenya) is studying the taxonomy of Fuirena in East Africa. He is also involved in the development of a specimen database of East African Cyperaceae.
Prof. Dr. B.H.M. NIJALINGAPPA (Dept. of Botany, Bangalore University, Bangalore 560 056, India) has standing interests in the cyto-embryology of Cyperaceae. He has a new project on SEM studies in South Indian sedges in collaboration with Prof. D.E. WUJEK.
Mr. Gilberto PEDRALLI (SAT3CETEC, C. Postal 2306, 31.170-000, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil) has a new project carrying out an environmental survey Betim township, Minas Gerais, Brazil, a floristic inventory inventory that includes Cyperaceae. He is also involved in a project carrying out a programme of vegetational recovery in the Matuca Special Protection Area (APE), Minas Gerais. This will involve using seeds of Cyperaceae.
Dr. Michael PROCTOR (Dept. of Biological Sciences, Prince of Wales Road, Exeter, EX4 4PS, UK) has standing interests in the physiological ecology, phytosociology and SEM of leaf-surface characters in Carex.
Dr. S.P. RATH (Dept. of Botany, Uktal University, Vani Vihar, Bhubaneswar - 751 004, India) has standing interests in Indian Cyperaceae with special reference to the genus Cyperus and Fimbristylis. He has a new project looking at palynological variation within the genera of Cyperaceae.
Mr. Lars-Gunnar REINHAMMAR (Dept. of Systematic Botany, Villavägen 6, S-752 36, Uppsala, Sweden) has initiated studies on allozyme differentiation between mountain and lowland taxa in the following Carex groups: C. capillaris, C. capitata/arctogena, C. norvegica/media, C. hartmani/ buxbaumii/adelostoma.
(Biology Dept., College of the Ozarks, Pt. Lookout, MO 65726, USA) has a standing interest in Carex sect. Acrocystis. Mr. William ROBERTS (Rittenhouse Square 1922, Philadelphia PA 19103, USA) has a new project looking at Carex of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Ms. Julia SHAW (Dept. of Ecology and Biodiversity, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulham Road, Hong Kong) is studying the classification, distribution and ecological requirements of Hong Kong Cyperaceae, possibly including aspects of ethnobotany, pollination and dispersal.
Dr. S. Galen SMITH (University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, Whitewater, WI53190, USA) has started a new project looking at the status of Bolboschoenus (Scirpus) tuberosus worldwide. He is particularly interested in its distribution, introduction into North America and its hybridisation with Bolboschoenus (Scirpus) maritimus.
Dr. Song-Wang SU (Dept of Biology, Anhui University, 230039 Hefei, Anhui, China) has a standing interest in the structure and basic unit of the inflorescence in the Caricae.
Prof. Dr. Herwig TEPPNER (Institut für Botanik, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Holteigasse 6, A - 8010 Graz, Austria) has standing interests in European Carex (systematics and floristics) and Cyperus esculentus s.l. (systematics).
Dr. Kálmán VANKY (University of Tübingen, Spezielle Botanik, Af der Morganstelle 1, D - 72076, Tübingen, Germany) has standing interests in the Ustilaginales of the world, a number of which are fungal parasites of Cyperaceae.
Prof. Dr. G. WIEGLEB (Dept. of General Ecology, Technical University Cottbus, PO Box 101344, D-03013 Cottbus, Germany) has a standing interest in the taxomomy of Carex.
Dr. John H. WIERSMA (Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory, USDA/ARS, BARC-West, Bldg. 011A, Beltsville, MD 20705-2350 USA) has standing interests in generic concepts and nomenclature in Cyperaceae. He has a new project involoving a revision of USDA Agricultural Handbook 505 entitled A checklist of 3000 Vascular Plants of Economic Importance.
Mr. Alan YEN (Dept of EPO Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA) is carrying out a molecular analysis of Carex and related genera to examine generic limits in Caricoideae and the phylogenetic relationships among subgenera in Carex.
Mr. Carlos ZAVARO PÉREZ (Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba, AP 8010 Habana, Cuba) has standing interests in the taxonomy and phylogeny of the Scirpoideae. He has a new project carrying out cladistic and phenetic studies in Eleocharis.