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The New Mexico Botanist, Issue No. 1

September 1995

Introduction

This marks the first issue of “The New Mexico Botanist.” This semiannual newsletter, issued jointly by the Range Science Herbarium and the Cooperative Extension Service of New Mexico State University, is dedicated to furthering and sharing our knowledge of the New Mexico flora. It will focus on floristic and taxonomic information of interest to the botanists of the state, such as new state records, nomenclatural notes and explanations, pertinent literature, reports of inventories and theses, threatened and endangered species, announcements and reports of meetings and conferences, and the like. Additionally, I will try to maintain a “Directory of New Mexico Botanists,” anticipating this will facilitate better communication and cooperation among us all.

The New Mexico Botanist is not meant to be a source of publication of original research. I recommend making use of the usual avenues of publication, which I will then try to report in the newsletter. Perhaps an exception to this would be the inclusion in The New Mexico Botanist reports of new finds in the state and distribution records of interest to the state’s botanists. Obviously, I will be feeling my way a bit as we proceed.

The usefulness of The New Mexico Botanist will be greatly enhanced by you. Please send me your comments, complaints, ideas, and contributions (see “Publication and Subscription Information” on the last page). I am especially interested in those obscure inventories and reports that are published by various agencies and corporations, but whose distribution is meager. I regularly peruse the standard technical journals commonly available at a university library (Brittonia, Rhodora, Phytologia, Systematic Botany, American Journal of Botany, Great Basin Naturalist, etc.), but please send along articles from less well-known journals. Note that the Calendar section is a bit sparse; I could use some additional coming events (keep in mind we only appear twice a year). And don’t be surprised if I call on you for a short article or report that I think will be of interest to us all.

This inaugural issue includes the first installment of our “Directory of New Mexico Botanists” (page 3). Many thanks to all who responded with information for the Directory. My apologies for any errors in your listing. I will maintain a running column with additions and corrections to the Directory, so please send me errata, as well as information from those of you who were not included in the first listing. The directory will be kept in a separate data base, and a corrected, comprehensive copy may be requested from me at any time.

Thank you for your interest in The New Mexico Botanist and in the flora of New Mexico
— Kelly Allred, Editor

World Wide Web and Gopher Sites of Interest to Botanists

WWW Sites of Interest to Botanists
http://meena.cc.uregina.ca/~liushus/bio/botany.html
http://biomserv.univ-lyon1fr/Ecology-WWW.html

Arizona Nature Conservancy
http://hanksville.phast.umass.edu/defs/independent/AZNC/AZlist.html

Arnold Arboretum
gopher://huh.harvard.edu/11collections_info/aa

Biodiversity and Biological Collections WWWs (Botany)
htt;://muse.bio.cornell.edu/taxonomy/botany.html

A Biologist’s Guide to Internet Resources by Una R. Smith, 1993
gopher://sunsite.unc.edu/1m/../.pub/academic/biology/ecology+evolution/bioguide/bioguide.item

BIOSCI/bionet Electronic Newsgroup for Biology
http://www.bio.net/

Bishop Museum Botany Page
http://job.hcc.hawaii.edu:8080/bishop/botany/botany.html

Botany Department, University of Georgia
http://dogwood.botany.uga.edu/

California State University Stanislaus Botany 3700 Home Page
http://130.17.2.215/

Connecticut College Herbarium
http://herbarium.conncoll.edu/

Detailed Family Descriptions
http://florawww.eeb.uconn.edu/FAM_DESC\_fdlist.htm

Flora of North America
http://atg1.wustl.edu/FNA/

Gray Card Index
gopher://huh.harvard.edu:70/11/project_information/authority/botany/gray_cards

The Intermountain Herbarium, Utah State University
http://www.biology.usu.edu/biology/plant.html

International Organization for Plant Information
http://life.anu.edu.au/biodiversity/iopi/iopi.html

Lythraceae, The Loostrifes
http://simon.kent.edu/Biology/SGraham.html

Missouri Botanical Garden
http://mobot.org/MoBot/welcome.html

Montana Natural Heritage Program
http://nris.msl.mt.gov/mtnhp/nhp-dir.html

National Biological Service (NBS)
http://www.its.nbs.gov/nbs/

Oklahoma Museum of Natural History (Oklahoma Biological Survey)
http://obssun02.uoknor.edu/omnh/home.html

Oklahoma Natural Heritage Inventory
http://obssun02.uoknor.edu/biosurvey/onhi/home.html

Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard university (links to herbarium and arboretum gopher servers)
http://oeb.harvard.edu/

Plant Resources Information Laboratory
http://lib-www.ucr.edu/gomez-pompa/

SMASCH Project
http://www.calacademy.org/smasch.html

Smithsonian Natural History, Department of Botany
http:/nmnhwww.si.edu/departments/botany.html

TAXACOM List Serve Archives
http://muse.bio.cornell.edu/archive/taxacom.html

Texas A&M University, Plant Taxonomy
http://www.isc.tamu.edu/FLORA/tfphome1.html

Texas Threatened and Endangered Species
http://is.rice.edu/~shel/Herp/tx.endangered.html

TROPICOS via Remote Managing Gigabytes
http://keck.tamu.edu/cgiMG/wwwRMG.mobot.html

University of Delaware Botanic Gardens
gopher://bluehen.ags.udel.edu:71/hh/.botanic_garden/botanicg.html

University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS)
http://nabalu.flas.ufl.edu/flashome.html

University of Guelph, Botany Department
http://www.uoguelph.ca/CBS/Botany/botany.htm

University of Toronto Botany Server
http://www.botany.utoronto.ca/

University of Wisconsin, Botany Gopher
gopher://gopher.adp.wisc.edu:3000/7?botany

Vatican Exhibit - Herbals
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Experimental/vatican.exhibit/exhitit/g-nature/Botany.html

Literature Reports

Allred, K.W. 1994. A new name for Aristida hamulosa (Gramineae). Phytologia 7(5):411-413. 

 Anderson, L.C. 1995. The Chrysothamnus-Ericameria connection (Asteraceae). Great Basin Naturalist 55(1):84-88. [Completes the submergence of Chrysothamnus into Ericameria; see Nesom & Baird 1993.] 

 Barkworth, M.E. 1993. North American Stipeae (Gramineae): Taxonomic changes and other comments. Phytologia 74(1):1-25. [Stipa perplexa.] 

 Barneby, R.C. 1991. Sensitivae Censitae. Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 65:1-835. [A thorough and detailed treatment of the mimosoid genera of Fabaceae s.l.] 

 Bierner, M.W. 1994. Submerger of Dugaldia and Plummera in Hymenoxys (Asteraceae: Heliantheae: Gaillardiinae). Sida 16(1):1-8. [Completes the transfer of much of the old Helenium to Hymenoxys.] 

 Chinnappa, C.C. 1992. Stellaria porsildii, sp. nov., a new member of the S. longipes complex (Caryophyllaceae). Syst. Bot. 17(1):29-32. 

 Dorn, R.D. 1995. A taxonomic study of Salix section Cordatae subsection Luteae (Salicaceae). Brittonia 47:160-174. [See also Dorn’s earlier Willows of the Rocky Mountain States. Rhodora 79:390-429. 1977.] 

 Fryxell, P.A. 1994. Malvaceae. J. Ariz.-Nev. Acad. Sci. 27(2):222-236. [Gives an up-to-date accounting of southwestern Malvaceae, excluding Sphaeralcea.] 

 Grimes, J.W. 1990. A revision of the New World species of Psoraleae (Leguminosae: Papiloinoideae). Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 61:1-113. 

 Hess, W.J. and R.C. Sivinski. 1995. A new species of Zigadenus (Liliaceae) from New Mexico, with additional comments on the section Anticlea. Sida 16(3):389-400. [Zigadenus mogollonensis.] 

 Jones, S.D., C.T. Bryson, and J.E. Ubelaker. 1993. Carex blanda and Kyllinga odorata (Cyperaceae) new to New Mexico and a significant range extension of Cyperus retrorsus. Sida 15(3):552-553. 

 Jones, S.D. and G.D. Jones. 1993. Cyperus setigerus (Cyperaceae) new for New Mexico. Sida 15(4):655-656. 

 Ladyman, J.A.R. 1995. Status assessment of Trifolium longipes ssp. neurophyllum. New Mexico Natural Heritage Program, Albuquerque. 

 Kartesz, J.T. and K.N. Gandhi. 1995. Nomenclatural notes for the North American flora. XIV. Phytologia 78(1):1-17. [Sporobolus compositus replaces S. aspera.] 

 Kearns, D.M. 1994. The genus Ibervillea (Cucurbitaceae): An enumeration of the species and two new combinations. Madrono 41(1):13-22. 

 Knight, P.J. and A.C. Cully. 1991. A new species of Astragalus (Fabaceae) from southeastern New Mexico. Southw. Naturalist 36(2):198-200. [Astragalus kerrii] 

 Lowrey, T.K. and P.J. Knight. 1994. Townsendia gypsophila (Compositae: Astereae): a new species from northern New Mexico. Brittonia 46:194-199. 

 Matthews, J.F., D.W. Ketron, and S.F. Zane. 1992. The reevaluation of Portulaca pilosa and P. mundula (Portulaceae). Sida 15:71-89. [Reaffirming the submergence of Portulaca mundula.] 

 Mayfield, M.H. 1993. New combinations in Chamaesyce A. Gray (Euphorbiaceae) from Texas and the Chihuahuan Desert. Phytologia 75(2):178-183. 

 McDonald, C. ed. 1995. Endangered plants notes and news. Number 1. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, N.M. Ecological Services State Office, 2105 Osuna NE, Albuquerque, NM 87113. [An “irregularly published series of notes” on endangered plant species. This issue includes notes on Trifolium longipes, a sensitive plant survey in the Jemez Mts, various projects on Sclerocactus, Astragalus, Echinocereus, Pediocactus, Cirsium, Helianthus, Ipomopsis, and Puccinellia, and reports on category updates.] 

 McIntosh, L. 1994. First report of Castilleja ornata (Scrophulariaceae) from the United States. Phytologia 76:329-332. 

 McKinney, L.E. 1992. A taxonomic revision of the acaulescent blue violets (Viola) of North America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 7:1-60. 

 Nesom, G.L. 1990. Taxonomic summary of Ericameria (Asteraceae: Astereae), with the inclusion of Haplopappus sects. Macronema and Asiris. Phytologia 68(2):144-155. 

 Nesom, G.L. 1990. Taxonomy of the genus Laennecia (Asteraceae: Astereae). Phytologia 68(3):205-228. 

 Nesom, G.L. 1990. Studies in the systematics of Mexican and Texas Grindelia (Asteraceae: Astereae). Phytologia 68(4):303-332. 

 Nesom, G.L. 1990. Taxonomy of Erigeron bellidiastrum (Asteraceae: Astereae), with a new variety. Phytologia 69(3):163-168. [Var. arenarius.] 

 Nesom, G.L. 1991. Taxonomy of Isocoma (Compositae: Astereae). Phytologia 70:69-114. 

 Nesom, G.L. 1991. A new species of Erigeron (Asteraceae: Astereae) from northwestern New Mexico. Phytologia 71(5):416-419. [Erigeron sivinskii.] 

 Nesom, G.L. 1994 [1995]. Review of the taxonomy of Aster sensu lato (Asteraceae: Astereae), emphasizing the New World species. Phytologia 77(3):141-297. [A somewhat controversial treatment of the genus Aster, which restricts the genus to the Old World, leaving our species in the genera Symphyotrichum, Eurybia, Almutaster, and Chloracantha.] 

 Nesom, G.L. and G.I. Baird. 1993. Completion of Ericameria (Asteraceae: Astereae), diminution of Chrysothamnus. Phytologia 75(1):74-93. [Reduction of most of Chrysothamnus into Ericameria; see Anderson 1995.] 

 Nesom, G.L. and B. Hevron. 1995. Erigeron bistiensis (Asteraceae: Astereae): A new species from northwestern New Mexico. Madrono 42:12-18. 

 Nesom, G.L. and D.R. Morgan. 1990. Reinstatement of Tonestus (Asteraceae: Astereae). Phytologia 68:174-180. 

 Roalson, E.H., S.D. Jones, and K.W. Allred. 1995. Carex amplifolia and Carex rossii (Cyperaceae), new to New Mexico and a key to section Montanae in New Mexico. Sida 16(3):592-594. 

 Rollins, R.C. 1993. The Cruciferae of continental North America: Systematics of the mustard family from the Arctic to Panama. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California. Pp. 976. 

 Sivinski, R. 1993. Noteworthy collections (New Mexico). Madrono 40:273-274. 

 Sivinski, R. 1994. A review of Cryptantha fulvocanescens (Boraginaceae) with the re-evaluation of Greene’s Oreocarya nitida. Madrono 41(4):243-253. 

 Sivinski, R. and K. Lightfoot. 1994. Status summary for the grama grass cactus (Toumeya papyracantha). U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 2 Office, Albuquerque. 

 Sivinski, R. and K. Lightfoot, Eds. 1995. Inventory of rare and endangered plants of New Mexico. 3rd. Ed. New Mexico Forestry and Resources Conservation Division, Misc. Publ. No. 4. 

 Sivinski, R., T. Lowrey, and R. Peterson. 1994. Additions to the native and adventive flora of New Mexico. Phytologia 76(6):473-479. 

 Spellenberg, R., L. McIntosh, and L. Brouillet. 1993. New records of angiosperms from southern New Mexico. Phytologia 75:224-230. 

 Todsen, T.K. 1995. Malaxis wendtii (Orchidaceae) in the United States. Sida 16(3):591. [Malaxis wendtii replaces M. ehrenbergii in N.M.] 

 Turner, B.L. 1994. Revisionary study of the genus Allionia (Nyctaginaceae). Phytologia 77(1):45-55. 

 Turner, B.L. 1995. Synopsis of the genus Onosmodium (Boraginaceae). Phytologia 78:39-60. 

 Turner, B.L. and T.M. Barkley. 1990 Taxonomic overview of the Senecio flaccidus complex in North America, including S. douglasii. Phytologia 68(6):51-55. 

 Valdes-R., J. and S.L. Hatch. 1995. Anatomical study of Erioneuron and Dasyochloa (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Eragrostideae) in North America. Sida 16(3):413-426. [Supports recognition of Dasyochloa.] 

 [Various authors and dates]. Vascular plants of Arizona. J. Ariz.-Nev. Acad. Sci. Vols. 26(1), 27(2), 29(1) and continuing. [Containing treatments as they are completed of Arizona families. 

 Wittemore, A.T. 1994. New names in North American Myosurus (Ranunculaceae). Novon 4:77-79.

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