Rubiaceae - I Conference

First International Conference on the Systematics of the Rubiaceae

The First International Conference on the Systematics of the Rubiaceae was held at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, Missouri, USA on 4–6 October 1993 and was organised by Charlotte M. Taylor and P. Mick Richardson.

This conference brought together experts on the family from around the world for the first time. At the time, the inclusion of Rubiaceae in Gentianales versus in its own order, Rubiales, was not fully resolved, and that is why this was a Rubiaceae only meeting. The idea of organising this Rubiaceae conference came from Peter Raven and Doug Stevens (Charlotte Taylor, pers. comm.). Selected proceedings of the conference were published in 1995 in Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 82(3): 355–439.

File: Program and abstracts

Front to back, left to right: Charlotte Taylor, Vivian Negrón, Katarina Andreason, Howard Reynolds, Birgitta Bremer, Irene Shonle, Shu-Miaw Chaw, Amy Faivre, Leila Macias, Shunzaku Suzuki, Diane Bridson, Jennifer Richards, Christopher Puttock, Christian Puff, Helga Ochoterena, John Dwyer, David Lorence, Molly Nepokroeff, Stella Maris Pire, Elsa Cabral, Nélida Bacigalupo, Sigrid Jung Mendaçolli, Hiroshi Tobe, Lennart Andersson, Johann Rova, Colin Ridsdale, John Beaman, Elmar Robbrecht, Alessandro Natali, Iain Miller, Michael Kiehn, Joseph Kirkbride, Attila Borhidi, Paul Foster, Claes Gustafsson, Dylon Hannon, Claes Persson, Simon Malcomber, R. Mitchell Beauchamp, Tim McDowell, Steve Manning, Steve Darwin, Ivan Schanzer, Piero Delprete, Tao Carl Chen.

Photo by Missouri Botanical Garden

Photo by Elsa Cabral