CYPERACEAE newsletter Number 15
REQUESTS AND EXCHANGE
Prof. Himansu BAIJNATH (Ward Herbarium, University of Durban-Westville, Private Bag X54001, Durban, South Africa) requests living material of Cyperus textilis and Cyperus sexangularis for his research.
Dr Jeremy BRUHL (Department of Botany, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia) requests Cyperaceae of all genera, especially from the tropics and Southern Hemisphere. He would also like specimens of amphicarpic sedges. Local species (Cyperaceae and non-sedges) are available for exchange.
Ms Laura Patricia DOPCHIZ (Dpto. Cs. Biológicas, Fac. Cs. Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Pab. II - 4to piso, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina) is requesting seeds of Cyperaceae species for cytological studies.
Dr Stanley JONES (Botanical Research Center, P.O. Box 6717, Bryan, TX 77805-6717, USA) requests Cyperaceae and Poaceae specimens from worldwide. Exchange material is available from Texas, S.E. United States, Colorado and Belize.
Ms Maria Fatima MERELES (Sección Botánica, Fac. de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Casilla de Correo 1055, Asunción, Paraguay) is willing to exchange the periodical Rojasiana (Paraguay).
Ing. Vlastimil MIKOLAS (Bot. Garden-Herbarium, 23, Mánes Str., SK-043 52 Kosice, Slovakia) requests material of Carex from eastern Slovakia.
Mr Michael OLDHAM (Natural Heritage Information Centre, P.O. Box 7000, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada K9J 8M5) is willing to exchange Cyperaceae of North America for Cyperaceae of southern Ontario.
Mr Gilberto PEDRALLI (SAT-CETEC, Caixa Postal 2306, 31170-000 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil) would like to receive specimens of all genera of Cyperaceae from 'quadrilátero ferrifero' of Minas Gerais state and from 'campos rupestres' region.
Dr C.K. SHAH (Department of Botany, University School of Sciences, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad 380 009, India) will welcome views, publications, etc. on mesocotyl, bundle sheath, diffuse centromere, utricle of Carex and Coix, distribution of sedges, photographs of C.B. Clarke, Tanaka Plasmolysis of PMC, bulbils, etc.
Dr S. Galen SMITH (Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Whitewater, Wisconsin, 53190-1790 USA) would like to 1) receive reprints of any publications on Schoenoplectus and Bolboschoenus, 2) exchange herbarium collections of these genera and 3) receive achenes of Bolboschoenus species from anywhere outside North America.
Mr Bernd SONNEBERG (Botany Department, Rhodes University, P.O. Box 94, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa) would like collection records of Cyperaceae from the eastern Cape region of Southern Africa.
Ms Connie SOROS-POTTRUFF (Department of Botany, Earth Sciences Centre, 25 Willcocks St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3B2) is requesting some seed material of at least one species of the rhynchosporoid and eleocharoid C4 anatomical types. Anyone of the following species : Rhynchospora affinis, R. albo-tuberculata, R. capitata, R. confusa, R. curvulata, R. dentinux, R. diamontina, R. elatior, R. exserta, R. globosa, R. heterochaeta, R. leae, R. longisetis, R. pterochaeta, R. rubra, R. submarginata, R. subtenuifolia, R. tenuifolia, R. terminalis, R. wightiana, Eleocharis caespitosissima, E. retroflexa.
Dr Gerald WHEELER (Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, 220, Biological Sciences Building, St Paul, Minnesota 55108-1095 USA) requests North American Carex for South American Carex and Uncinia.