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Sunday, August 1st

Sunday, August 1st
9:00 am to 10:00 am · 552B/Convention Center
Session M5: Meeting: BSA Publications Committee Meeting
Presiding: Judy Jernstedt, University of California, Davis
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August 1st 9:00 amNo Title
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BSA-Wide
Sunday, August 1st
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm · 552B/Convention Center
Session M10: Meeting: Student Conference Assistants Orientation
Presiding: Kathryn Stogran, Botanical Society of America
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August 1st 3:00 pmStudent Conference Assistants Orientation
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Conference Wide
Sunday, August 1st
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm · 552B/Convention Center
Session S7: Special Lecture: An Introduction to the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
Presiding: Michael Keller, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
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S7001August 1st 3:00 pm An Introduction to the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
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An Introduction to the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)Special AddressKeller, Michael.

Monday, August 2nd

Monday, August 2nd
1:30 pm to 3:45 pm · 552B/Convention Center
Session 16: Contributed Papers: Economic Botany
Presiding: Rainer W Bussmann, Missouri Botanical Garden
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August 2nd 1:30 pmIntroduction
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Economic Botany Section
16002August 2nd 1:45 pmEast African plant use – differences in plant use between nomadic and agricultural societies
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Economic Botany SectionPaperBussmann, Rainer W.Kenya
Maasai
Samburu
Kikuyu
ethnobotany
16003August 2nd 2:00 pmCultural Persistence Over Time and Space: Viandas in the Diet of the Puerto Rican Community of Hartford, CT, and Botanical Teaching Opportunities
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Economic Botany SectionPaperTaylor, David William; Anderson, Gregory J..viandas
Hartford
Connecticut
Puerto Rican
Puerto Rico
diet
teaching
root crops
starchy crops
ethnobotany
Economic Botany
market inventory
16004August 2nd 2:15 pmHerbal mixtures in traditional medicine in Northern Peru
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Economic Botany SectionPaperBussmann, Rainer W.
16005August 2nd 2:30 pmEstablishing a global network of transdisciplinary research in medicinal botany
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Economic Botany SectionPaperGraf, Brittany; Kellog, Josh; Ayeni, Albert; Joseph, Gili; Lila, Mary Ann.pharmacognosy
ethnobotany
International outreach
medicinal plants
conservation
sustainable development
August 2nd 2:45 pmBreak
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Economic Botany Section
16007August 2nd 3:15 pmAntimalarial Activity of Plants Used by the Confederate Army during the American Civil War
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Economic Botany SectionPaperGraziose, Rocky; Lategan, Carmen; Smith, Peter; Struwe, Lena; Raskin, Ilya.Antimalarial Activity
medicinal plants
ethnobotany
North America
phytochemistry
Historical botany
cytotoxicity
August 2nd 3:30 pmDiscussion
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Economic Botany Section
Monday, August 2nd
4:00 pm to 5:15 pm · 552B/Convention Center
Session M16: Meeting: Economic Botany Business Meeting
Presiding: Rainer W Bussmann, Missouri Botanical Garden
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August 2nd 4:00 pmEconomic Botany Business Meeting
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Economic Botany Section

Tuesday, August 3rd

Tuesday, August 3rd
8:00 am to 10:45 am · 552B/Convention Center
Session 28: Contributed Papers: Phylogeography and Ecological Biogeography
Presiding: C. Thomas Philbrick, Western Connecticut State University
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28001August 3rd 8:00 amAn analysis of the vascular flora of Edwards Plateau of west-central Texas
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BiogeographyPaperSaghatelyan, Anna.geographical element
Texas
Chihuahuan Desert
taxonomic spectrum
comparative analysis
Flora
Floristics
28002August 3rd 8:15 amRange modeling of entire floras to estimate fine-scale patterns of alpha diversity across the landscape
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BiogeographyPaperHearn, David; Sanderson, Michael; McMahon, Michelle.range model
species diversity
Hot spot
Flora of Arizona
maximum entropy
species-time curve
climate
specimen database
28003August 3rd 8:30 amMultiple Pleistocene refugia and Holocene range expansion of an abundant southwestern American desert plant species (Melampodium leucanthum, Asteraceae)
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BiogeographyPaperRebernig, Carolin A.; Schneeweiss, Gerald M.; Bardy, Katharina E.; Schoenswetter, Peter; Villasenor, Jose L.; Obermayer, Renate; Stuessy, Tod F.; Schneeweiss, Hanna.desert biota
Holocene aridification
Melampodium
phylogeography
polyploidy
refugia
28004August 3rd 8:45 amIsland hopping and evolutionary divergence of endemic Lotus on the California Channel Islands
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BiogeographyPaperWallace, Lisa Ellen; McGlaughlin, Mitchell M; Helenurm, Kaius.Channel Islands
intraspecific variation
cpDNA sequencing
Lotus
phylogeography
28005August 3rd 9:00 amSpecies delimitation, phylogeography, and identification of evolutionarily significant units in a rare but widespread North American mycoheterotrophic orchid, Corallorhiza striata (Orchidaceae: Epidendroideae).
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BiogeographyPaperBarrett, Craig F.; Freudenstein, John.morphometry
orchid
nuclear marker
ITS
plastid DNA
North America
intron
phylogeography
coalescent
F3H
RPB2
August 3rd 9:15 amBreak
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Biogeography
28007August 3rd 9:30 amIntraspecific variation in Podostemum ceratophyllum
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BiogeographyPaperFehrmann, Susie ; Halliburton, Richard; Philbrick, C. Thomas.
28008August 3rd 9:45 amPolyploidy and the invasion of ivy (Hedera spp., Araliaceae) in North America
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BiogeographyPaperGreen, Adam F; Ramsey, Tara; Ramsey, Justin.polyploidy
plant invasion
Hedera
hybridization
28009August 3rd 10:00 amDo endemic plants migrate? The phylogeography of Pyxidanthera barbulata (Diapensiaceae) as a test of the Pleistocene refugial paradigm
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BiogeographyPaperWall, Wade; Douglas, Norman; Xiang, Qiu-Yun(Jenny); Hoffmann, William; Wentworth, Thomas; Hohmann, Matthew.phylogeography
Pyxidanthera
Diapensiaceae
endemism
population genetics
28010August 3rd 10:15 amBiogeography and fungal relationships in the Corallorhiza odontorhiza-wisteriana group (Orchidaceae)
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BiogeographyPaperFreudenstein, John; Barrett, Craig F..Orchidaceae
Biogeography
phylogeography
Fungi
28011August 3rd 10:30 amPolyploidy and the Cytogeography of the North American Creosote Bush (Larrea tridentata, Zygophyllaceae)
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BiogeographyPaperLaport, Robert; Minckley, Robert; Ramsey, Justin. Polyploidy
speciation
Biogeography
flow cytometry
Tuesday, August 3rd
1:30 pm to 3:15 pm · 552B/Convention Center
Session 43: Contributed Papers: Seed Ecology and Plant Reproductive Ecology
Presiding: Claudia L. Jolls, East Carolina University
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43001August 3rd 1:30 pmLatitudinal variation in seed germination requirements and phenological traits in Phemeranthus parviflorus (Nutt.) Kiger (Montiaceae)
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Ecological SectionPaperPrice, Taina M..Phemeranthus
Montiaceae
North America
seed germination
geographic variation
latitudinal range
local adaptation
43002August 3rd 1:45 pmEffects of Smoke/Ash Solutions on Seed Germination Rates and Percentages of Twenty Tallgrass Prairie Species
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Ecological SectionPaperErvin, Stefanie L.; Daugherty, Bradley M.; Coutant, Nancy E.; Coons, Janice M..Smoke
prairie
Seed
Germination
43003August 3rd 2:00 pmPatterns of seed abortion in response to leaf herbivory in a perennial legume herb Centrosema virginianum Bentham (Fabaceae: Papilionoideae)
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Ecological SectionPaperCardel Sharp, Yuria; Koptur, Suzanne.defoliation
herbivory
pollination
Fruit
seed size
Seed abortion
seed set
legume
resource allocation
clones
43004August 3rd 2:15 pmThe role of Brassica rapa FLC orthologs in flowering time divergence due to drought in natural populations in California
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Ecological SectionPaperLitt, Amy; Nowogrodzki, Anna; Lalchan, Rebecca; Franks, Steven.Brassica
FLC
flowering time
climate change response
43005August 3rd 2:30 pmReproductive assurance for a rewardless epiphytic orchid in Puerto Rico (Pleurothallis ruscifolia)
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Ecological SectionPaperCaraDonna, Paul; Ackerman, James D. .autogamy
Cleistogamy
Plant Size
fruit production
deception pollination
reproductive constraints
Orchidaceae
Puerto Rico
43006August 3rd 2:45 pmVariation of reproductive modes and population genetic structures of a monocarpic perennial herb, Caridocriunm cordatum, in relation to habitat fragmentation
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Ecological SectionPaperOhara, Masashi; Narumi, Tadashi; Nishizawa, Miyuki.reproductive mode
Genetic variation
monocarpic perennical
Habitat fragmentation
43007August 3rd 3:00 pmHedging our bets: seed mass, morphology and germination of Packera tomentosa
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Ecological SectionPaperJolls, Claudia L..heterocarpy
Packera
Tuesday, August 3rd
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm · 552B/Convention Center
Session D6: Discussion Session: Job Panel Discussion
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August 3rd 4:00 pmJob Panel Discussion
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Conference Wide

Wednesday, August 4th

Wednesday, August 4th
8:00 am to 12:00 pm · 552B/Convention Center
Session 49: Contributed Papers: Asterids: Ericales, Boraginaceae, Gentianales
Presiding: Catherine Bush, Wake Forest University; Kathleen A. Kron, Wake Forest University
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49001August 4th 8:00 amChloroplast DNA sampling for phylogeny reconstruction: Lessons from Lithospermum L. (Boraginaceae)
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Systematics SectionPaperCohen, Jim; Davis, Jerrold I.. cpDNA
Lithospermum
Boraginaceae
sampling
phylogenetics
49002August 4th 8:15 amPhylogenetic Systematics of the genus Cryptantha (Boraginaceae)
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Systematics SectionPaperHasenstab-Lehman, K.E.; Simpson, Michael.Cryptantha
Cryptantheae
Boraginaceae
Boraginales
systematics
taxonomy
ancestral state reconstruction
phylogenetics
49003August 4th 8:30 amPhylogenetic Relationships of the Popcorn Flowers, Plagiobothrys (Boraginaceae), Inferred Using nrDNA (ITS) and cpDNA (trnL-trnF, rps16, 3' trnL)
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Systematics SectionPaperGuilliams, C. Matt; Baldwin, Bruce G..Boraginaceae
Plagiobothrys
vernal pool
Cryptantha
Amsinckia
California Floristic Province
49004August 4th 8:45 amPolite Spigelias: Genuflexing infructescences in a new species of Loganiaceae
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Systematics SectionPaperStruwe, Lena; Mathews, Katherine Gould; Molina, Maria; Popovkin, Alex.Gentianales
Loganiaceae
taxonomy
Fruit development
dispersal
Brazil
Biodiversity
morphology
ITS
molecular systematics
Plant morphology
49005August 4th 9:00 amPhylogenetic relationships and patterns of morphological evolution in Periplocoideae (Apocynaceae)
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Systematics SectionPaperIonta, Gretchen M.; Judd, Walter S..Periplocoideae
Apocynaceae
phylogeny
pollinia
49006August 4th 9:15 amDetecting incomplete lineage sorting and past hybridization in American Asclepias (Apocynaceae)
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Systematics SectionPaperFishbein, Mark; Chuba, David; Weitemier, Kevin; Ovchinnikov, Sergey; Saadoun, Basma; Kilhoffer, Kevin; Watson, Linda E.; Fathepure, Shakuntala. Apocynaceae
Asclepias
cpDNA
gene tree
hybridization
incomplete lineage sorting
ITS
milkweed
nuclear intron
pgiC
phylogeny
species tree
49007August 4th 9:30 amPhylogenetic relationships within Catesbaeeae Chiococceae Complex (Rubiaceae)
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Systematics SectionPaperPaudyal, Sushil K.; Delprete, Piero D.; Motley, Timothy J.. Biogeography
Catesbaeeae
Caribbean
Chiococceae
Greater Antilles
Islands
Pacific
Rubiaceae
August 4th 9:45 amBreak
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Systematics Section
49009August 4th 10:00 amSearch for “true Hedyotis” (Rubiaceae) in Asia and its biogeographic implications
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Systematics SectionPaperNeupane, Suman; Motley, Timothy J..Asia
Biogeography
Fruit evolution
Hedyotis
India
Islands
ITS
morphology
phylogeny
Rubiaceae
trnL-F
49010August 4th 10:15 amEvolution of Self-incompatibility in Polemoniaceae
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Systematics SectionPaperPorter, J. Mark; LaDoux, Tasha; Friar, Elizabeth A..Polemoniaceae
self-incompatibility
Tousled
supermatrix
Bayesian approach
49011August 4th 10:30 amPhylogenetic relationships of Theaceae inferred from multiple plastid genes
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Systematics SectionPaperLi, Mimi; Fu , Chengxin; Del Tredici, Peter; Corajod, Jeffrey; Li, Jianhua.Theaceae
Hartia
Stewartia
plastid sequences
Inverted repeat
ENA / EAS disjunction
49012August 4th 10:45 amResolving relationships at the base of Ericaceae: how do the leafless members fit?
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Systematics SectionPaperFreudenstein, John; Broe, Michael B.; Feldenkris, Emily R..Ericaceae
molecular systematics
monotropoids
pyroloids
leafless plants
49013August 4th 11:00 amA study of the phylogenetic relationships among species of Lyonia occurring in the Caribbean using ITS and matK sequences; with comments on biogeographical relationships
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Systematics SectionPaperBangura, Fatu; Judd, Walter S.; Bush, Catherine; Kron, Kathleen A..Lyonia
matK
ITS
Caribbean
49014August 4th 11:15 amThe Phylogeny, Morphology and Biogeography of the Brazilian Gaultheria species
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Systematics SectionPaperBush, Catherine; Fritsch, Peter W.; Cruz, Boni C.; Sanchez, Adriana; Kron, Kathleen A..Gaultheria
Biogeography
Brazil
LEAFY
WAXY
Andes
Temperate South America
49015August 4th 11:30 amReticulate evolution, cryptic species and character convergence in the core East Asian clade of Gaultheria (Ericaceae)
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Systematics SectionPaperFritsch, Peter W.; Lu, Lu; Cruz, Boni C.; Wang, Hong; Li, De-Zhu.cryptic species
convergent evolution
Ericaceae
Gaultheria
Gaultherieae
reticulate evolution
Sino-Himalaya
49016August 4th 11:45 amVegetative plasticity in Eriastrum diffusum and E. eremicum at a single site in the Mojave Desert, California
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Systematics SectionPaperDe Groot, Sarah.morphology
Eriastrum
plasticity
Wednesday, August 4th
1:30 pm to 5:30 pm · 552B/Convention Center
Session SY8: Symposium: Plant/Pollinator Interactions in Fragmented Landscapes
Presiding: Diane Byers, Illinois State University; Suzanne Koptur, Florida International University
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SY8SUMAugust 4th 1:30 pmPlant/Pollinator Interactions in Fragmented Landscapes
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Plant/Pollinator Interactions in Fragmented LandscapesSymposiumByers, Diane; Skogen, Krissa A.; Koptur, Suzanne.plant-pollinator interaction
fragmented habitats
plant - pollinator interactions
conservation
August 4th 1:30 pmIntroduction
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Plant/Pollinator Interactions in Fragmented Landscapes
SY8002August 4th 1:45 pmHawkmoth pollination of Oenothera in a fragmented landscape – variation in scent, floral morphology, nectar and neutral genetic markers
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Plant/Pollinator Interactions in Fragmented LandscapesSymposiumSkogen, Krissa A.; Raguso, Robert A.; Fant, Jeremie; Hilpman, Evan T..Habitat fragmentation
pollination
Floral scent
population genetics
Oenothera
SY8003August 4th 2:15 pmA shift in pollinator guilds of the pineland petunia (Ruellia succulenta Small Acanthaceae) in rocklands of south Florida
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Plant/Pollinator Interactions in Fragmented LandscapesSymposiumGeiger, John; Koptur, Suzanne.Habitat fragmentation
pollination
pollinator guild
plant reproduction
SY8004August 4th 2:45 pmPollinator diversity and wildflower pollen limitation in a fragmented oak-savannah ecosystem
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Plant/Pollinator Interactions in Fragmented LandscapesSymposiumElle, Elizabeth; Neame, Lisa A.; Gielens, Grahame A..Pollinator diversity
Pollinator guilds
pollen limitation
Habitat fragmentation
August 4th 3:15 pmBreak
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Plant/Pollinator Interactions in Fragmented Landscapes
SY8006August 4th 3:45 pmNative Bee Diversity in Fragmented Prairie Landscapes and Implications for Pollinator-Dependent Agriculture
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Plant/Pollinator Interactions in Fragmented LandscapesSymposiumHendrix, Stephen; Kwaiser, Kyle; Heard, Steve; Klein, Alexandra.bee diversity in landscape elements
Tallgrass prairie
local and landscape effects on bee diversity
wild bees and agriculture
almond pollination
SY8007August 4th 4:15 pmHow do plant communities structure bee communities in fragmented habitats?
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Plant/Pollinator Interactions in Fragmented LandscapesSymposiumWinfree, Rachael; Williams, Neal M.; Fagan, William F.; Cariveau, Daniel P..pollination
SY8008August 4th 4:45 pmEffects of forest fragmentation on pollination, reproduction and gene flow of tropical dry forest plants
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Plant/Pollinator Interactions in Fragmented LandscapesSymposiumQuesada, Mauricio; Rosas, Fernando; Rosas-Guerrero, Victor.Conservation biology
pollination
plant reproduction
tropical dry forest
forest fragmentation
August 4th 5:15 pmDiscussion
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Plant/Pollinator Interactions in Fragmented Landscapes

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