| Monday | | |
| 9:00 | Welcome and Plenary Talk—A modern view on polyploidy: studies of Nicotiana section Suaveolentes by Mark Chase | |
| 10:40 | Morning Break | |
| 11:00 | Session 1: Problems and Systematics | |
| It’s not the snake in the grass you should be wary of! | John Clarkson |
| Nearly everything we thought we knew about Australian Plagiochilaceae is wrong | Matt AM Renner |
| Archidendron, are the east and west really that different? | Gillian Brown |
| The enigmatic and industrious Mr Schultz[e] | Robyn Barker |
| 12:20 | Lunch | |
| 13:20 | Session 2: Our Taxonomic Resources | |
| Conservation genomics of Cycas calcicola (Cycadaceae) in Australia | James Clugston |
| State and future needs of New Zealand’s nationally important taxonomic collections | Ilse Breitwieser |
| Keys to the flora of the MacDonnell Ranges Bioregion of Central Australia: web enabling the MacFlora interactive keys | Ian Cowie |
| Mobile field data collection: redefining possibilities | Joel Collins |
| ALA: what’s waiting in the wings? | Ryonen Butcher |
| 15:00 | Afternoon Break | |
| 15:30 | Session 3: Our taxonomic resources (continued) | |
| The Australian Biological Resources Study—so where do we go to from here? | Anthony Whalen |
| The eFlora platform—ready and waiting for a Flora near you | Kevin Thiele |
| 16:30 | ASBS AGM | |
| 17:10 | ASBS business meeting | |
| free evening | |
| Tuesday | | |
| 9:00 | Nancy T. Burbidge Medal Presentation and Address | |
| 10:30 | Morning Break and poster session | |
| 11:00 | Session 4: Evaluating Biodiversity | |
| Endemic areas and comparative biogeography of Australian plants | Daniel J Murphy |
| How well do today’s herbarium specimen data reflect the floristic diversity of a region? | WR (Bill) Barker |
| Quantifying floristic beta-diversity of the Australian Wet Tropics using phylogenetic turnover | Hugh Burley |
| Patterns of short range endemism in Top End Typhonium Schott illustrate the importance of taxonomic research to development planning and assessment | Nicholas Cuff |
| Tiptoe through the tulips, a cultural history and phylogeny of Tulipa (Liliaceae) | Maarten J M Christenhusz |
| 12:40 | Lunch | |
| 13:40 | Session 5: Systematics, Time and Evolution | |
| A Ripogonum look-alike from the Oligocene of New Zealand: a lesson in the importance of cuticle | Isaac A Kerr |
| Reedia spathacea F.Muell.: a study of phylogeography, population structure and co-occurrence | Jessica Bruce |
| Eremophila and tribe Myoporeae (Scrophulariaceae): phylogeny and biogeography based on high throughput sequencing | Rachael M Fowler |
| Hybridisation between native and invasive Carpobrotus N.E.Br. (Aizoaceae) in South Australia—molecular and morphological insights | Ed Biffin |
| 15:00 | Afternoon Break | |
| 15:30 | Session 6: Insights into Biodiversity | |
| Rhamnaceae–where art thou | Jürgen Kellermann |
| Mitrasacme, morphology and the monsoon tropics | Kerry Lynne Gibbons |
| Looking at the Big Pitcher: assessing the coevolution of Cephalotus follicularis and its associated wingless fly | Nick Kalfas |
| Evaluating the impact of genomic data and priors on Bayesian estimates of the angiosperm evolutionary timescale | Charles Foster |
| Would you like a new species and a fertile hybrid with that? Eucalyptus magnificata is not just an endangered species | Timothy L. Collins |
| 17:10 | Forum: Decadal Plan progress | |
| 18:00 | Conference Dinner | |
| Wednesday | | |
| 9:00 | Session 7: Systematics and Issues of Scale | |
| Phylogenomics of seed plants | Sarah Mathews |
| Using big data to answer large-scale questions in eucalypt systematics: analysis of chloroplast genomes does not support the monophyly of Corymbia | Tanja M Schuster |
| Evolution of genome size in angiosperms | Michael F. Fay |
| Taxonomy, plant-disperser interactions, diversification and biogeography of the genus Aglaia (Meliaceae) | Caroline Pannell |
| Population variation in the seagrass Halophila ovalis (Hydrocharitaceae) | Kristina Lemson |
| 10:40 | Morning Break | |
| 11:00 | Session 8: New Taxonomic Resources and Systematic Studies | |
| Building a key to all Australian flowering plants—70% and counting | Kevin Thiele |
| Flora NT—Northern Territory flora online | Donna Lewis |
| My time as a ‘Kewite’ | Richard L. Boyne |
| Molecular phylogeny of Eriocaulon (Eriocaulaceae) | Yu Ito |
| Implications for conservation in the Mount Compass Swamp Gum Eucalyptus paludicola based on genome wide markers | Kor-jent van Dijk |
| 12:40 | Lunch | |
| 13:40 | Session 9: Systematics and Evolution of Species | |
| Diverse origins and evolution of sexual expression in Australasian Malveae (Malvoideae, Malvaceae) | Jennifer A Tate |
| The key problem in Eremochloa (Rottboelliinae: Poaceae) | Melodina Fabillo |
| Are we splitting hairs? Resolving infrageneric relationships in the Australian Plectranthus (Lamiaceae) | Trevor Wilson |
| Species delimitation in Southern Hemisphere bracteate-prostrate forget-me-nots (Myosotis, Boraginaceae) based on analyses of pollen and morphological data | Heidi Meudt |
| 15:00 | Afternoon Break | |
| 15:30 | Conference handover and student awards | |
| 17:00 | Close | |
| 17:30 | Transport to Simpsons Gap BBQ | |
