题  目：Primary Verification in Plant Taxonomy towards a new endogenous Botanical Culture: historical problems in determinations, with special reference to Musaceae and Zingiberaceae in Malesia

报告人：Prof. Lim Chong Keat (林苍吉)

时  间：5月23日周二下午14:00-17:30

地  点：华南植物园水榭会议室

个人简历：

Born in Penang Malaysia in 1930.

Chairman, Malaysian Forestry Research & Development Board (FRIM)(2001-2004).

Independent Botanical Researcher in Palms, Gingers et al. (since 1980).

Publisher & Editor:Folia malaysiana, (since 2000), Chairman.

Founder Director: Suriana Botanic Conservation Gardens, Penang.

Elected Fellow, Academy of Sciences Malaysia (2012).

The speaker ‘devolved’ from being a fulltime architect and urban designer to an ‘overtime’ amateur field botanist, fascinated by the wonderful flora of Malaysia, particular by the palms and gingers. He was drawn into taxonomy by the ‘challenges’ of errors and uncertainties encountered in precedent literature, records in herbaria, and by the  ‘depression’ in local botanical efforts – and the context of international protectionism! His early field work in Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak, Sabah, Indonesia and Thailand since the

late 1980s - in his self-funded ‘Palm Search Malaysia’ project - yielded many new species of palms, which he began to describe, learning ‘the tricks of the trade’ as well as the socio-political environment of botanical research. He belatedly ventured into the hotbed of the ginger world – redetermining some taxa, and recognising 70 new species, and 4 new genera! He has also published more than 75 botanical papers. With editorial support from

eminent botanical advisors, he initiated in 2000 the publication of the journal Folia malaysiana – “devoted to Botanical Knowledge, inspired by the Cultural, Environmental & Floristic Heritage of Malaysia and its Neighbours”. The journal is now into its 14th year, providing useful independent media for ‘cutting edge’ taxonomy and botanical writing 。

      He has since founded and funded the Suriana Botanic Conservation Gardens, with in situ and ex situ research programmes for native flora, with a special interest in Arecaceae, Zingiberaceae, extending to Musaceae.

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