Mario Fernández-Mazuecos

@mfmazuecos.bsky.social

#IamABotanist Real Jardín Botánico, Madrid @csic.es @uam.es

We have a new paper out on one of evolution’s “classic” systems: Galápagos Scalesia plants! 🌿 How do you generate huge differences in leaf shape across species in <1 million years? We combined genomics + morphology + transcriptomics across the full radiation 👇

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🌸 The orchid that blooms underground Australia’s rare Rhizanthella orchid lives, feeds, and flowers entirely underground, relying on a fungus and bush roots to survive, now near extinction. 🔗 www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #Botany #SciComm 🧪

Plantwatch: An extraordinary orchid that lives and flowers underground

Botanist trying to conserve highly vulnerable rhizanthella that survives by feeding on nutrients from a fungus

theguardian.com

Three Linaria taxa endemic to the Eastern Iberian Peninsula: L. depauperata subsp. depauperata, subsp. hegelmaieri and subsp. ilergabona; and L. aeruginea subsp. cardonica. Complex taxonomy and intriguing evolutionary/ecological patterns characterise Mediterranean plant radiations!

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