# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Talk: Evening meeting AGM and Druce Lecture: Mast seeding in Aciphylla, an atypical masting genus
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 17 Aug, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Speaker: Emeritus Professor Dave Kelly, University of Canterbury

Aciphylla is a genus of about 40 species, all but two endemic to New Zealand.  Aciphylla species show mast seeding (synchronous variable reproduction across years within a site). This is unexpected, because the plants are insect-pollinated, relatively short-lived, herbaceous, and dioecious, all of which are globally uncommon in masting species. Here I address some questions about their ecology, based on long-term monitoring since 1996 of flowering in permanent plots for three species (A. aurea, A. scott-thomsonii, and A. monroi). (1) How variable and synchronous are they (sexes within a population, populations within a species, and between species)? (2) What weather cues trigger heavy flowering? (3) How do the true (long-term) sex ratios in a population compare with what is seen in single years? (4) Do males flower more often than females? (5) How long-lived are plants? (6) How do plants respond to fire? (The Ōhau plot has now been burned twice).

Meeting is in-person and via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89547154619?pwd=bE0zRXRWSXBBUkVoUjdPcElJNXlJUT09
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/wellington/talk-evening-meeting-agm-and-druce-lecture-mast-seeding-in-aciphylla-an-atypical-masting-genus/200030238308145
- **Event Categories**: meetups
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Wellington
- **state**: WG
- **country**: New Zealand
- **location**: Murphy Building, Victoria University of Wellington
- **lat**: -41.28826
- **long**: 174.76956
- **full address**: Murphy Building, Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington Student Health, Salamanca Rd, Kelburn, Wellington 6012, New Zealand, Wellington

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- **Q**: When and where is Talk: Evening meeting AGM and Druce Lecture: Mast seeding in Aciphylla, an atypical masting genus being held?
  - **A:** Talk: Evening meeting AGM and Druce Lecture: Mast seeding in Aciphylla, an atypical masting genus takes place on Mon, 17 Aug, 2026 at 07:30 pm to Mon, 17 Aug, 2026 at 07:30 pm at Murphy Building, Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington Student Health, Salamanca Rd, Kelburn, Wellington 6012, New Zealand, Wellington.

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