CYPERACEAE newsletter Number 16
REQUESTS AND EXCHANGE
Mr Konraed CAMELBEKE (Department of Morphology, Systematics and Ecology, University of Gent, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Gent, Belgium, fax: +32 9 264 5334, email: konraed.camelbeke@rug.ac.be) would like to receive specimens of Scleria (esp. from the New World) in return for identification.
Mr Philip E. HYATT (SFRP herbarium/Forest Botanist, Kisatchie National Forest, 2500 Shreveport Hwy., Pineville, Louisiana, 71360, USA, email: hyatt@linknet.net) is willing to annotate Arkansas Carex collections. He is interested in exchanging or donating specimens from Arkansas, surrounding states, or United States, especially the east.
Dr Guo CHENG-LIANG (Qinhuangdao Animal and Plant Quarantine Bureau, Haibin Road 49, Qinhuangdao 066002, China) is studying the smut genus Tilletia (esp. the phylogeny of T. controversa, T. caries and T. laevis) and is interested in infected herbarium specimens (from different regions, on different hosts). The genus normally infects Poaceae. He is willing to exchange with specimens of whatever plant from China.
Dr Traore DOSSAHOUA (Département de Botanique et Biologie Végétale, Université d' Abidjan-Cocody, BP 582 Abidjan 22, Côte d' Ivoire, fax: +225-44-46-88) would like to receive information on future symposia, seminars, congresses etc on Cyperaceae.
Dr Paul GOETGHEBEUR (Department of Morphology, Systematics and Ecology, University of Gent, Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Gent, Belgium, fax: +32 9 264 5334, email: paul.goetghebeur@rug.ac.be) is interested in receiving specimens and/or viable seeds of Carex physodes.
Dr M.A. Wadood KHAN (Majalgaon College, Majalgaon, Dist. Beed, Maharashtra, India) is interested in exchanging specimens of local species for species of Diplacrum and Eleocharis worldwide.
Dr A.E. KOZHEVNIKOV (Department of Botany, Institute of Biology and Pedology, Far East Science Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok 690022, Russia, fax: 4232 310 193, email: botany@ibss.mazine.su) is happy to exchange the 3rd volume of 'Vascular Plants of the Soviet far East' (1988) which contains 15 genera and 344 spp. of Cyperaceae for publications containing treatments of Cyperaceae from any part of the world but especially the Pacific Rim.
Ing. Vlastimil MIKOLÁŠ (Botanical Garden and Herbarium, 23 Mánes Street, SK-043 52 Košice, Slovakia, fax: +421 95 37353, email: mikolas@kosice.upjs.sk) would like information or publications on Blsymus compressus, particularly relating to its taxonomy, evolution, phytogeography, phytosociology, and ecology.
Prof. Dr Luis Eduardo MORA-OSEJO (Calle 41 No. 77A-35, Santafé de Bogotá, Colombia, fax: +571 283 8552, email: aocefyn@colciencias.gov.co) requests specimens of neotropical species of Rhynchospora, Oreobolus, Scleria and Eleocharis.
Dr Yong Cha OH (Dept. of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Sungshin Women's University 249-1, 3-KA, Dongsun-Dong, Sungbuck-Ku, Seoul 136-742, S. Korea, fax: +82 2 929 3102) requests any specimens and reprints relating to Eleocharis tetraquetra.
Mr Gilberto PEDRALLI (SAT-SETEC, C.P. 2306, 31170-000 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, BRAZIL, fax: +55 31 486 1333, email:pedralli@cetec.rmg.br) would like to receive specimens of all genera of Cyperaceae from Floresta Atlântica and Cerrados of Brazil. He would also like to exchange material from the Cerrdoas and Campo Rupestres of Minas Gerais and Bahia with material from central Africa and Australia.
Dr Shiba Prasad RATH (Department of Botany, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, 751004, India, fax: +91 674 481 850) is interested in receiving specimens of Fimbristylis species from all over the world.
Ms Sarah ROSS (Departmant of Environmental Science, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK8 1NS, SCOTLAND, email: s.y.ross@stir.ac.uk) is in the final year of a PhD project focussing on links between hydrology/hydrochemistry and vegetation gradients on fens in Scotland. She is keen to make contact with other researchers in a similar area, to exchange ideas on the ecological requirements of Cyperaceae, Juncaceae, etc.
Ms C. SOROS (Department of Botany, Earth Sciences Centre, 25 Willcocks St., Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3B2, Canada, fax: +1 416 978 5878, email: pottruff@botany.utoronto.ca) requests any material of the rhynchosporoid anatomical type of C4 Cyperaceae namely: Rhynchospora affinis, R. albo-tuberculata, R. capitata, R. curvulata, R. dentinux, R. diamantina, R. elatior, R. exserta, R. globosa, R. heterochaeta, R. leae, R. longisetis, R. pterochaeta, R. rubra, R. submarginata, R. subtenuifolia, R. tenuifolia, R. terminalis and R. wrightiana.
Dr Geoffrey STANFORD (Dallas Nature Center, 7171 Mountain Creek Parkway, Dallas TX 75249 USA, email: gstanf2013@aol.com) is seeking information on Cyperus papyrus particularly on its husbandry, harvesting and industrial methods that are recorded in Pharaonic times of ist conversion into proto-paper.
Mrs Yuan XIAO-YING (Forest Reserves and Environment College, Northeast Forestry University, P.C. 150040, Harbin, China) would like to receive information about the exploitation and utilization of Cyperaceae resources.
Ms Shuren ZHANG (Herbarium, Institute of Botany, Chinese Acadaemy of Sciences, 20, Nanxincun, Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China , email: dailk@sun.ihep.ac.cn) requests specimens of Kobresia from Cnetral and Western Asia are being requested. Specimens of Kobresia and Carex from southwestern China are available to exchange.