IAPT is pleased to announce a new Grant Program focused on the improvement of collections held by small herbaria worldwide. Starting in October 2019, IAPT will provide competitive grants for the improvement and/or maintenance of botanical collections (herbaria) of algae, fungi, and or plants. Collection improvements include projects involving digitization, processing a specimen backlog, shipping an endangered collection to another herbarium, or other similar tasks. In unique cases we will also consider requests for materials associated with mounting herbarium specimens. Applications are particularly welcome from herbaria in developing countries, but the grants are open to small herbaria worl
We are pleased to announce that IAPT will participate in two international conferences in 2020: The Southern African Society for Systematic Biology conference will be held at the Waterval Country Lodge (www.waterval.co.za) outside of Cape Town, 4-11 July, 2020. IAPT will organize a workshop on nomenclature for the SASSB conference that we hope will be of interest to botanists, mycologists and phycologists. IAPT Council Member Muthama Muasya is one of the congress co-organizers. More details on the congress can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/xv-sassb-2020/home. IAPT will also participate in the XV International Palynological Congress and XI International Organisation of Palaeob
