For the first time in nearly 50 years, a new plant genus and species has been discovered in a U.S. national park.
🔗 @Pensoft blog post: https://t.co/oxqA5MZVR4
🔗 Research paper: https://t.co/VfgGwST5vR
#FernFriday Our annual activity of digging underground gametophytes of Sceptridium ferns, this time with some fresh hands! Surprisingly, the undergraduate Diya found the largest one we had ever seen, nearly 3 cm!
Convocatoria / Job Announcement
Plaza de Investigación en Biología Integrativa con énfasisen botánica, en la Unidad de Síntesis en Sistemática y Evolución.
https://t.co/TADMea45QJ
🚨New Paper Alert🚨 Together with @softcorebotany and @marxhannah I synthesized botanical data from across New Mexico to find patterns and gaps in biodiversity info. Data, code and resources are all freely available. Thanks to @UNM_MSB and the botanists who made it possible. 1/2
Join the Amargosa Conservancy as the Plant Stewardship Coordinator! This position will work in collaboration w/ the California Botanic Garden & Timbisha Shoshone towards seed conservation, restoration, & community engagement. Applications due Jan 6. https://t.co/ojfRzRlYaf
An additional use for herbarium specimens? Not sure that this should be added to Vick Funk's article '100 Uses for an Herbarium' though... https://t.co/pbIjJXTnnB
Tomorrow at 2pm eastern - check out the @soltislab (@SoltisEdwa78714) and @TrevorFaske for the Polyploid Webinar (see more here: https://t.co/2sZnnOVO5z)
I have a @marxhannah sized hole in my herbarium <3! The UNM Herbarium & @UNM_MSB is losing a great one. Cheers 2 one of the greatest curators I've ever had the privilege of working with, to all of the great work you will continue 2 do @ Cornell & all the new ways we get 2 collab!
Yareta (Azorella compacta) may look like a moss, but is a broad-leafed plant in the carrot 🥕 family, Apiaceae.
This pictures were taken in Bolivian, at an elevation of 14000 ft.
These plants are estimated to be over over 3000 years old. This large specimen may be over 1000 years old.
📷 Mark Dwyer
Did you ever see such an enormous fern leaf? This is Hercules' fern (Drynaria heracleum) from the rainforests of Southeast Asia, with trail-running fern specialist @JRCallado for scale 💚
Importance of habit & environmental characteristics in shaping patterns of richness & range size of #ferns & #lycophytes in the Atlantic Forest
New #AJB research by Amabily Bohn et al.
https://t.co/nNaKMH0dgF #botany#conservation#biodiversity @wileyplantsci @WileyEcolEvol