Awards and Prizes

The Editorial Board of Australian Systematic Botany is pleased to offer an annual Student Prize for the best student-authored paper published in the Journal.

The Prize is a one-year personal online subscription to the journal, and a AU$250 book voucher from CSIRO Publishing.

To be eligible for the Prize, the student must be the lead author of the paper, and the paper must be submitted for publication while the student is enrolled for a higher degree, or within two years of graduating for a higher degree, and the paper must be based on research completed as part of the higher degree. Appropriate certification is required from the student´s supervisor.

Papers eligible for the Prize will be judged by the Editorial Board.

The winner of the annual Prize will be announced each year in an issue of the Journal.

• 2023: Harvey K. Orel
  Plastid phylogenomics of the Eriostemon group (Rutaceae; Zanthoxyloideae): support for major clades and investigation of a backbone polytomy
  Harvey K. Orel, Todd G. B. McLay , Will C. Neal A , Paul I. Forster and Michael J. Bayly
  pp. 355-385
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• 2022: Catherine Clowes
  Big trees of small baskets: phylogeny of the Australian genus Spyridium (Rhamnaceae: Pomaderreae), focusing on biogeographic patterns and species circumscriptions
  Catherine Clowes, Rachael M. Fowler, Patrick S. Fahey, Jürgen Kellermann, Gillian K. Brown, Michael J. Bayly
  pp. 95-119
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• 2021: Anderson Ferreira dos Santos
  Can fruit ontogenetic features prove to be an important tool in the circumscription of Psychotrieae alliance?
  Anderson F. Santos, Amanda A. O. do Carmo, Vanessa C. Harthman, Mariza B. Romagnolo and Luiz A. Souza
  pp. 527-540
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• 2020: No prize was awarded

• 2019: Timothy A. Hammer
  Of a different feather: two new species of featherheads from the Ptilotus macrocephalus (Amaranthaceae) complex
  Timothy A. Hammer, Robert W. Davis and Kevin R. Thiele
  pp. 61-70
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• 2018: Elizabeth M. Joyce
  Evolution of Geosiris (Iridaceae): historical biogeography and plastid-genome evolution in a genus of non-photosynthetic tropical rainforest herbs disjunct across the Indian Ocean
  Elizabeth M. Joyce, Darren M. Crayn, Vivienne K. Y. Lam, Wesley K. Gerelle, Sean W. Graham and Lars Nauheimer
  pp. 504-522
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• 2017: Benjamin M. Anderson
  A revision of the Triodia basedowii species complex and close relatives (Poaceae: Chloridoideae)
  Benjamin M. Anderson, Kevin R. Thiele and Matthew D. Barrett
  pp. 197-229
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• 2016: Elizabeth Sheedy
  Dating the emergence of truffle-like fungi in Australia, by using an augmented meta-analysis
  Elizabeth M. Sheedy, Martin Ryberg, Teresa Lebel, Tom W. May, Neale L. Bougher and P. Brandon Matheny
  pp. 284-302
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• 2015: Susan Rutherford
  Phylogenomics of the green ash eucalypts (Myrtaceae): a tale of reticulate evolution and misidentification
  Susan Rutherford, Peter G. Wilson, Maurizio Rossetto and Stephen P. Bonser
  pp. 326-354
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• 2014: Daniel Ohlsen
  Phylogeny of the fern family Aspleniaceae in Australasia and the south-western Pacific
  Daniel J. Ohlsen, Leon R. Perrie, Lara D. Shepherd, Patrick J. Brownsey and Michael J. Bayly
  pp. 355-371
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• 2013: Andre Messina
  A morphological assessment of the Olearia phlogopappa complex (Asteraceae: Astereae)
  Andre Messina, Neville G. Walsh, Susan E. Hoebee and Peter T. Green
  pp. 31-80
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• 2012: Raelee Kerrigan
  A treatment for Polygala of northern Australia
  Raelee A. Kerrigan
  pp. 83-137
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• 2011: Claire Marks
  Comparative morphology and phylogeny of Nicotiana section Suaveolentes (Solanaceae) in Australia and the South Pacific
  Claire E. Marks, Ed Newbigin and Pauline Y. Ladiges
  pp. 61-86
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• 2010: Mei Lin Tay
  DNA sequences from three genomes reveal multiple long-distance dispersals and non-monophyly of sections in Australasian Plantago (Plantaginaceae)
  Mei Lin Tay, Heidi M. Meudt, Philip J. Garnock-Jones and Peter A. Ritchie
  pp. 47-68
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• 2009: Adele Gibbs
  Phylogeny and classification of Eucalyptus subgenus Eudesmia (Myrtaceae) based on nuclear ribosomal DNA, chloroplast DNA and morphology
  Adele K. Gibbs, Frank Udovicic, Andrew N. Drinnan and Pauline Y. Ladiges
  pp. 158-179
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• 2008: Christina Flann
  Morphometric study of Euchiton traversii complex (Gnaphalieae: Asteraceae)
  Christina Flann, Ilse Breitwieser, Josephine M. Ward, Neville G. Walsh and Pauline Y. Ladiges
  pp. 178-191
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• 2007: Ryonen Butcher
  Evidence for convergent evolution among phylogenetically distant rare species of Tetratheca (Elaeocarpaceae, formerly Tremandraceae) from Western Australia
  Ryonen Butcher, Margaret Byrne and Darren M. Crayn
  pp. 126-138
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• 2006: Bruce Webber
  Morphological analysis and a resolution of the Ryparosa javanica species complex (Achariaceae) from Malesian and Australian tropical rainforests
  Bruce L. Webber and Ian E. Woodrow
  pp. 541-569
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• 2005: Stuart Gardner
  An investigation of phyllode variation in Acacia verniciflua and A. leprona (Mimosaceae), and implications for taxonomy
  Stuart K. Gardner, Daniel J. Murphy, Edward Newbigin, Andrew N. Drinnan and Pauline Y. Ladiges
  pp. 383-398
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• 2004: Tanja Pfeiffer
  Inter-and infraspecific relationships in the Gondwanan liverwort genus Hymenopyton (Hymenophytaceae, Hepaticophytina). Studies in austral temperate rain forest bryophytes 23
  Tanja Pfeiffer, Friederike Schaumann, Gabriela G. Hässel de Menéndez and Wolfgang Frey
  pp. 407-421
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• 2003: Rob Smissen
  Phylogenetic analysis of ITS sequences suggests a Pliocene origin for the bipolar distribution of Scleranthus (Caryophyllaceae)
  R. D. Smissen, P. J. Garnock-Jones and G. K. Chambers
  pp. 301-315
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• 2002: Christina Flann
  Morphological variation in Leptorhynchos squamatus (Gnaphalieae: Asteraceae)
  Christina Flann, Pauline Y. Ladiges and Neville G. Walsh
  pp. 205-219
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