{"title":"What’s in a latin name?: Cycas wadei & the politics of nomenclature","authors":"","doi":"10.26757/pjsb.2018b12003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26757/pjsb.2018b12003","url":null,"abstract":"This history piece analyzes colonial-era correspondence and botany publications fascinated with Cycas wadei, a cycad observed only to grow on the island of Culion in the province of Palawan. First spotted in 1902 by U.S. botanist Elmer D. Merrill, the cycad became the preoccupation of U.S. and Filipino scientists alike. It took nearly three and a half decades before the species was introduced in the Philippine Journal of Science in 1936 as C. wadei, named after Herbert W. Wade, head physician of the Culion leper colony established by the U.S. colonial government at the turn of the century. Tracking the history of this species—from its first sighting to its debut before the international botany community—reveals much about the institutional workings of colonial science in the Philippines in the years leading up to the Commonwealth era. It further inspires us to take stock of the ways in which the politics of Latin binomial nomenclature of a species can be historicized across scales of human and institutional interaction. Such an intellectual practice can help us continue to shed light on the history of taxonomy in the Philippines.","PeriodicalId":37378,"journal":{"name":"Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46146431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Issa Carmina S. Vocal, Teresita R. Perez, Francis S. Magbanua, M. Hernandez
{"title":"The use of epilithic diatom assemblages in assessing land use in Silago, Southern Leyte, Philippines","authors":"Issa Carmina S. Vocal, Teresita R. Perez, Francis S. Magbanua, M. Hernandez","doi":"10.26757/pjsb.2018b12008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26757/pjsb.2018b12008","url":null,"abstract":"Silago is a municipality in Southern Leyte in which logging for high-quality timber and land clearing for agricultural purposes threaten stream ecosystems. The objective of this study was to assess the response of diatom assemblages in relation to land use. Diatoms and water quality sampling was done at 27 sites on two sampling occasions (June and July 2014). Multiple diatom metrics were calculated to measure the response of diatoms to changes in land use. In all, 135 diatom species distributed to 48 genera were recorded. The results showed that diatom species and their attributes gave similar responses to those obtained in environmental variables. Pollution tolerance index classified all sampling sites as oligo-b-mesosaprobic. Meanwhile, Cymbella richness, percent motile taxa, and percent Achnanthidium minutissimum indicated good water quality in forested areas, distinguishing them from other land use types. Contrary to other studies, species richness was found to increase with greater degrees of disturbance, thus giving unreliable evaluation of water quality. Overall, the study suggests that epilithic diatoms can be applied in biomonitoring of freshwater bodies in the country.","PeriodicalId":37378,"journal":{"name":"Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69121414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New records of Rosenvingea\u0000(Scytosiphonaceae, Phaeophyceae) from the Philippines","authors":"","doi":"10.26757/pjsb2019a13001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26757/pjsb2019a13001","url":null,"abstract":"We describe herein the morpho-anatomy of the elusive brown alga Rosenvingea nhatrangensis (Scytosiphonaceae, Phaeophyceae) and add this species to the flora of both the Philippines and Malaysia. At present, only two Rosenvingea species (R. intricata and R. orientalis) have been reported from both localities. We also report on the occurrence of R. australis in central Philippines based on molecular phylogenetic data, thus extending its distribution to the northern Pacific. First time account of the morphology of R. australis sporophyte under culture conditions is also provided.","PeriodicalId":37378,"journal":{"name":"Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69121432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}