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International Organization for Succulent Plant Study
30th IOS Congress, Natal, Brazil, 2008
Organizing Committee: Dr Reto Nyffeler, Marlon Machado
Congress Venue: Convention Centre, Praiamar Hotel, Natal, Brazil
The Congress was held in conjunction with the Sociedad Latinoamericaca y del Caribe de Cactáceas y otras Suculentas (SLCCS), and was part of Brazil’s Congreso Nacional de Botánica (CNB).
PROGRAMME
Wednesday 6 August - Symposium 1
Theme: Taxonomy, Systematics and Evolution of Succulents
Chair: Marlon Machado (Brazil)
Salvador Arias (México)
Morphological, anatomical and molecular data in the phylogenetic reconstruction of the columnar Cactaceae species of North America
Charles Butterworth (USA)
Tribal conflict and consensus: using DNA data to investigate traditional classifica-tions in the Cacteae
Abstract 
Erika Edwards (USA)
The genus Pereskia and the early evolution of Cactaceae
Abstract
Reto Nyffeler (Switzerland)
The closest relatives of cacti
Abstract
Marlon Machado (Brazil)
Phylogenetics of Brazilian Cactaceae: the tribe Cereeae and the genus Parodia
Sabrina Mota Lambert (Brazil)
Biosystematic studies of two Melocactus Link & Otto species endemic to the Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil
Boris Schlumpberger (Germany)
Phylogeny and evolution of Echinopsis s.l. (Cactaceae)
Abstract
Leonard E. Newton (Kenya)
Sorting out the sansevierias
Abstract
Thursday 7 August - Symposium 2
Theme: Ecology, uses and Conservation of Cacti
Chair: Jafet M. Nassar (Venezuela)
Isabel Cristina Machado (Brazil)
Flowering phenology of Cactaceae species from northeastern Brazil: periodicity and resource sequence vs pollination syndromes
Emerson Antônio Rocha (Brazil)
Floral and reproductive biology of columnar cacti from northeastern Brazil: the Pilosocereus case in the caatinga
Mariana Rojas-Aréchiga (México)
Advances in studies on seed germination in Mexican cacti
Jafet M. Nassar (Venezuela)
Perspectives on the use of columnar cacti in Venezuela
Alejandro Casas (México)
Ecology and evolution of columnar cacti associated with human management
Barbara Goettsch (U.K.)
Assessing the conservation status of Cactaceae
Abstract
Ana Pin (Paraguay)
Cacti from Paraguay: threats and conservation
Héctor Hernández Macías (México)
A biogeographic perspective for the conservation of Mexican cacti
Abstract
16:30–18:00 IOS Members’ Business Meeting.
Friday 8 August - Symposium 3
Theme: Succulent Plants: Biology, Floristics and Biogeography
Chair: Teresa Terrazas Salgado (México)
Teresa Terrazas Salgado (México)
Floral anatomy diversity in the Opuntioideae
Patricia Soffiatti (Brazil)
Secondary xylem in Cereeae tribe
Monserrat Vázquez (México)
Pseudocephalium, its morphology and differences with the cephalium
Pablo Guerrero (Chile)
Biogeographic patterns of endemic cacti from Chile
Detlev Metzing (Germany)
Succulent plants and global change
Emmanuel Pérez-Calix (México)
The Crassulaceae family at Bajío and adjacent regions
Adriana Sofia Albesiano (Colombia)
Phylogeny of Parodia, Wigginsia group (Cactaceae)
Abstract
Thomas Bolliger (Switzerland)
Ex-situ conservation at the Zurich Succulent Plant Collection: Activities and limitations
Abstract
16:30–18:00 SLCCS Member’s Meeting
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