Staff Honors

From Plant Press, Vol. 4, No. 2 from April 2001.

In February 2001, Elizabeth Zimmer was inducted as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, for contributions to development of ribosomal genes as markers for plant phylogenetic studies and for molecular studies addressing the origins of flowering plants.

            Schismatoglottis nicolsonii A. Hay, Telopea 9: 95 (2000) was recently named for Dan Nicolson, collector of the type specimen and “mentor of contemporary Malesian arologists.”  The type was collected at Bako National Park in Sarawak in August, 1961 while Nicolson was doing field work on the genus Aglaonema  for his doctoral thesis.  The species is one of numerous herbaceous aroids growing in deep shade, often with variegated leaves.