A meme for #phylogenetics people.

Kumara, also recently segregated from Aloe, has just two species, the best known of which is K. plicatilis (1st 📷). The lesser-known K. haemanthifolia (2nd 📷, by Peter Thompson CCBYNC4) is a cracker & very worthy of cultivation. 😍

Continuamos la serie quincenal del Congreso de la SEBOT con Asturias. 𝘜𝘴𝘯𝘦𝘢 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘢 es un conspicuo líquen de los húmedos bosques del norte peninsular. 🗓️¡Recuerda! Septiembre de 2025: congresosebot2025.com

Estas escenas de naranjas llenando las calles pueden resultar raras, pero no en Sevilla. Allí tendrá lugar el II Congreso de Botánica, donde uno de los principales árboles urbanos ed el naranjo amargo, Citrus × aurantium. ¿Quieres saber un poco más? 👇

The horizon from my office’s windows asked me to give another opportunity to my day 🥰

La Segunda Circular del Congreso Español de Botánica de 2025 ya está disponible 👇🏼 congresosebot2025.com/docs/circula... Tenéis información de cómo proponer simposios y talleres, abierto hasta el 28 de febrero. Os esperamos del 22 al 25 de Septiembre en Sevilla 🍊 ¡Pronto más info!

The Christmas Sedge announces that... It's time!!!!!

Some fabulous cheering Luronium natans on a dull December day. Got to love a bit of Floating Water-plantain 💚🌱

The spatial patterns of avian seed dispersal in fragmented anthropogenic landscapes are congruent with an ecological and evolutionary history with open and semi-open habitats created and maintained by extinct megaherbivores 🧑‍🎨: @claraprieto.com @journalofecology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Behold! Gluteus minimus, an incertae sedis fossil whose name means "tiny butt" bizarrecreature.blogspot.com/2014/11/crea... Let your imagination gets you to... to the Devonian!

The generalistic house sparrow drinking nectar from Strelitzia nicholai in Torremolinos during Spring 2023. Is that how bird-plants interactions may start cementing @txaverius.bsky.social?

These are not flowers. I repeat: these are NOT flowers. What you see here is the Glass Flowers collection from the Harvard Museum of Natural History, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Come with us to admire some of these stunning pieces! 👇🏼

Latest work on Atlantic bluefin #tuna tagged off the coast of Norway showing their extensive annual migrations, high site-fidelity and dynamic vertical diving behaviour in the Atlantic #Ocean & Mediterranean Sea: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #fisheries #oceanography #movementecology

#Drosera hyperostygma #Droseraceae! The Orange flowered Pygmy Sundews are a joy to see! These are common species in the Perth hills distinguished by their black stamen filaments and black egg shaped stigma for which they are named for! #WildOz

Phylogenetic turnover of seed plants 🌱 at a global 🌐 and across phylogenetic scales: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Environmental filtering, not dispersal history, explains global patterns of phylogenetic turnover in seed plants at deep evolutionary timescales - Nature Ecology & Evolution

This modelling study integrates comprehensive regional plant inventories, environmental conditions and palaeogeographical reconstructions to assess the relative roles of environmental filtering and di...

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When you can't decide if you love dogs more than the herbarium.

When your toxic supervisor messed up the taxonomy and now you are in charge.

Cyperaceae are not known by their floral displays. Then one day you run into Cyperus proteus, a sedge that looks like a dandelion 😱 A striking case of mimicry to exploit insect-mediated pollination, where the anthela is modified into a colorful pseudanthium. www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Cyperus proteus

Cyperus proteus from Mutinondo Wilderness, Muchinga, ZM on May 9, 2023 at 12:01 PM by isabellarridon

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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴@scottzona.bsky.social · 2y ago

A pseudanthium (pl. pseudanthia) is an inflorescence that resembles a single flower with an eye-catching periphery & a reproductive center. Asteraceae are classic examples: ray florets are showy; disc florets are reproductive. 📷: Tithonia rotundifolia #Asteraceae #pseudanthia #botany 🌾🧪🌱

This is how you imagine vouchers when you are from a place with a warm climate but head north in Winter to study a herbarium collection.

We spent this past week hunting more vouchers at the @nybg.bsky.social for the core imaging of iSedge @cetaf.bsky.social project. At this point the largest herbarium in the W Hemisphere helped us reach the incredible number of 1300 sedge species previously unavailable for www.cyperaceae.org! 😍

A drop of water balancing on top of hydrophobic trichomes of the invasive water fern Salvinia molesta. I split the leaf with a razor in order to get the full detail of the trichome structure.

When you work in a herbarium but you real passion is knitting. Seen at @nybg.bsky.social

I spent the last five summers sharing the infamous mediterranean heat with 15 species of thistles that flower at that somewhat absurd time of year, seeking to understand (something about) their thermal ecology. Here are the results. I think all my sweat was worth it. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Flowers that cool themselves: thermal ecology of summer-blooming thistles in hot Mediterranean environments

Flower exposure to high temperature reduces the production, viability and performance of pollen, ovules and seeds, which in turn reduces individual fecundity and risks the survival of populations. Aut...

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Sometimes when you revise herbaria you get to actually see a bit of the story behind the fieldwork (II). A voucher of Carex with a note from the colector at the end of the label 🥰😆 Seen at @nybg.bsky.social herbarium

For 1 week we have been at the Smithsonian NMNH in DC with iSedge project funded by @cetaf.bsky.social. We checked the entire Cyperaceae collection and set a loan of >700 species. That will boost our website www.cyperaceae.org with detailed pics of taxonomically relevant structures. Stay tuned!

This picture is the "Great Piece of Turft", 1503, by the German painter Dürer, preserved in the Albertina museum (Vienna). It is among the earliest pieces of art representing in detail grasses and other "non-flowering" plants. I always wondered if there is an equivalent pic depicting sedges

Miriam@migart00.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hoy vengo a compartir este cuadro de Alberto Durero se llama "Gran mata de hierba" o "La gran pradera". En él se pueden ver varias especies herbáceas, ruderales y muy comunes como Dactylis glomerata, Plantago mayor, Taraxacum officinale, Poa prantensis...

Salicaceae are famous for salicin, first isolated from Salix alba, which our bodies convert to salycilic acid, a painkiller. Other Salicaceae are toxic: Some Salix & Banara spp. have cyanogenic glycosides (viz. prunasin). 📷: Salix exigua (Matt Lavin CCBYSA2), a cyanogenic species. #botany 🌾🧪🌱

Mapania sylvatica (Cyperaceae), the sedge that wanted to be a Trillium.

True color images of the monochrome sedge -Lagenocarpus alboniger, Cyperaceae-. A plant that actually is black and white 🤯

Sometimes when you revise herbaria you get to actually see a bit of the story behind the fieldwork. A Machaerina (Cyperaceae) collected on 1915 near Itatiaia (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), specimen from the Smithsonian's US collection @smithsonianmag.bsky.social