In the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, over thirty 'Anoneiros' are meeting during a five day Annonaceae workshop, hosted by the South China Botanical Garden and facilitated by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Five days of sharing ideas and data, designing new joint projects in a forward-looking mood, and enjoying the beautiful Guandong landscape during field trips.
A new genus of Annonaceae was discovered last year by Thomas Couvreur and Hervé Sauquet in the Parque National des Monts de Cristal, Gabon. It was named Sirdavidia in honor of Sir David Attenborough. It was published in the open access journal PhytoKeys: http://phytokeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=4665
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For the pas ten years there has been a discussion about the phylogenetic placement of the small genus Diclinanona amongst Annonaceae researchers. Recently, several parties involved in the discussion teamed up in order to investigate the issue and settle the discussion. The resulting paper of Erkens et al. in the December issue of Taxon not only fixes Diclinanona firmly in the Annoneae (as sister to a clade with Disepalum, Annona and Asimina) but also presents a complete online revision of the three species.
