🗺️ At #TDWG2026 we attended an excellent presentation by Sabine von Mering: "Here, There, and Everywhere: Modelling Research Expeditions in Wikidata". 🔗 Sabine is also an author in our journal: phytokeys.pensoft.net/article/1227... @tdwg.org

📍 We're featured at @pensoft.net's booth at #TDWG2026, running this week in Oslo! 📚 Come and find out more about the scope of our journal and how we can support your research. @tdwg.org #BiodiversityData

🎤 We were delighted to attend Quentin Groom's presentation at #TDWG2026 on reducing lag in biodiversity information systems. 👉 Groom is also an author in our journal. Access one of their recent articles on the enigmatic Lathyrus platyphyllos: bdj.pensoft.net/article/1416... @tdwg.org

🎤 It was fantastic to attend the opening ceremony of #SMCC2026, where we heard from PhytoKeys author Lyuben Zagorchev and @zookeys.pensoft.net subject editor Boyko Georgiev, both members of the @pensoft.net community. #SmallMammalConservation @habitatfoundation.bsky.social

🎉 We were delighted to attend the opening talk of one of our long-time editors, Hugo de Boer, this morning at #TDWG2026. 🔍 Stay tuned for further updates! @tdwg.org

🌴 A new palm species, Lanonia nhatii, has been described from Lao Cai, Vietnam. A new record of the related Lanonia yangchunensis in Guangxi, China, has also been confirmed in the following study: doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.279.207204

🌸 Four magnolia species, treated as synonyms of Michelia lacei since 1993, have been restored as distinct species and formally transferred into the genus Magnolia: doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.279.194847

🌿 Salvia has long posed a taxonomic challenge in Japan, with its 12 species proving difficult to tell apart. Therefore, attention was recently turned to an overlooked source: the seeds. ➡️ Learn more about this fresh way to distinguish Japan's Salvia species: doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.279.199134

Hydrangea medogensis is a new #plant species in the #hydrangea family that has been described based on herbarium specimens and molecular phylogenetic analyses. Full study: doi.org/10.3897/phyt...

Meet Staurogyne konchurangensis, new #plant species from the acanthus family, described and illustrated from Vietnam: doi.org/10.3897/phyt... #newspecies #botany

Type-specimen comparison and phylogenomic analysis (plastomes & Angiosperms353) show Lappula betpakdalensis and L. lasiocarpa to be distinct species, not synonyms as treated in #Flora of China. Learn more about the differences between the species here: doi.org/10.3897/phyt... #plants

🎉 We were delighted to welcome Lukas Petrulaitis to @pensoft.net's booth at #NeoBiota2026! 👉 Lukas is an author in our journal! You can read their paper on Asclepias speciosa in Europe in our journal: doi.org/10.3897/phyt...

🌱 Our team has touched down in Brussels for #NeoBiota2026 - the 14th International Conference on Biological Invasions! Here through 11 Sept. 🤝Come chat with our team about @pensoft.net's publishing portfolio - journals, books & conference services. We'd love to connect

🌿 A new plant species, Vincetoxicum phucanhense, has been described from Vietnam, bringing the total number of Vincetoxicum species recorded in the country to fourteen: doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.279.203612

🎉 We are pleased to welcome Dr. Andriy Novikov as a new Subject Editor at our journal! ➡ Learn more about his expertise here: phytokeys.pensoft.net/news/1464

Andriy Novikov joins PhytoKeys as a Subject Editor

"I am very pleased to join the PhytoKeys journal as a Subject Editor on Ranunculaceae. Although my principal focus is on the morphology and systematics of Ranunculacea, I have also been working o...

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👹 We are so excited that research published in PhytoKeys on the Thismia daemona "demon flower" has been covered by major media outlets: @discovermag.bsky.social - www.discovermagazine.com/a-newly-disc... @metropoles.com - www.metropoles.com/ciencia/flor... (1/3)

A Newly Discovered ‘Devil Flower’ Hides Beneath the Forest Floor Before Emerging With Black Petals and Demon-Like Eyes

Learn about Thismia daemona, the “devil flower” recently found in a Thai national park that survives without sunlight.

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📍 We recently attended the 4th BioSyst.EU meeting in Uppsala, Sweden, held in the very city where taxonomy was born! ➡️ Read the full recap on our blog: blog.pensoft.net/2026/09/03/p... #BioSyst2026

Pensoft at the 4th BioSyst.EU Meeting 2026 | Blog

The 4th BioSyst.EU meeting took place in Uppsala, Sweden, from 17 to 19 August 2026, organised by the Swedish Systematics Association, in collaboration with Uppsala University.

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👹 A new species of fairy lantern plant, Thismia daemona, has been described from Thailand, named for its devil-like blackish flowers with horn-like appendages! ➡️ Study: doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.278.202868 🔗 @pensoft.net's blog: blog.pensoft.net/2026/09/02/n...

🌿 Two new plant species, Besleria purpureovenosa and Besleria roseocalyx, have been discovered during expeditions to Colombia's Mesenia-Paramillo Nature Reserve. Full study: doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.279.199372

🧬The OPENBAR initiative (a @biogeneurope.bsky.social project) is launching two efforts to build a community #DNA #barcoding field guide: a 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐦 (𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝟏𝟓, 𝟏𝟒-𝟏𝟔 𝐂𝐄𝐓) and a 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲 on lab realities. Open to researchers across the field. Register for the online forum: mbmg.pensoft.net/news/1456

Join BGE+ in developing a DNA barcoding field guide

DNA barcoding has reshaped biodiversity research, but it still doesn't come with a manual. Researchers are largely left to figure out best practices on their own, often the hard way. Now, the...

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🌿 A new lycophyte species, Didiclis pseudobisulcata, has been described from northern Thailand and southwest China: doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.278.204624

What an inspiring #conservation story! 🙌

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🌋The Galápagos #snapdragon dropped to 6 #plants in 2007. Today: 28, after 30 yrs of nursery propagation & reintroduction by the Charles Darwin Foundation & Galápagos National Park. These #conservation efforts returned the species to the exact site it was first found in 1962: doi.org/10.3897/natu...

👉More insights from Patricia Jaramillo Díaz, a senior researcher at the Charles Darwin Research Station, leading this conservation effort: blog.pensoft.net/2026/08/26/f... #conservation #plant

From an Herbarium Cabinet to the Lava Fields of Isabela: Restoring One of the Galápagos’ Rarest Plants | Blog

Or how decades of curiosity, teamwork and persistence helped give one of the Galápagos' rarest plants a second chance.

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Phylogenetic study of #grass subtribe Eleusininae reshapes the genus Disakisperma: using 8 plastid markers + ITS, researchers resurrect the genus Cypholepis for three species and narrow Disakisperma down to a single (monotypic) species. Full #openaccess study: doi.org/10.3897/phyt...

A phylogeny of Disakisperma and resurrection of Cypholepis (Poaceae, Chloridoideae, Cynodonteae, Eleusininae)

The classification of Disakisperma is reevaluated with the study of molecular DNA sequences and morphological characters. We present a phylogeny of four species of Disakisperma utilizing eight plastid...

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🌸 A new #primrose species, Primula pingwuensis, has been discovered in Sichuan, China, characterised by its branching stems, thick leaves and downy surfaces. Learn all about it: doi.org/10.3897/phyt...

🌿 A new lycophyte species, Didiclis pseudobisulcata, has been discovered and described from northern Thailand and southwest China: doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.278.204624

🌿 Korea's orchid diversity has been found to be greater than previously thought, with a third species of the genus Epipactis, E. xanthophaea, now confirmed to grow on the peninsula after having been mistaken for a related species! 🔍 Full study: doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.278.195337

Check out this new #moss species Brachythecium wangianum, from northern China and southern Russia. Full study: doi.org/10.3897/phyt...

🌱 Callicarpa oligantha, long presumed extinct and known only from a single 1917 specimen, has been rediscovered at its original site in Guangdong Province, China. ➡️ Read the full study: doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.278.203604 #plant

🌿 A new wild #banana subspecies, Musa acuminata subsp. kraburiensis, has been discovered on Thailand's Isthmus of Kra, alongside several previously unrecorded forms and subspecies: doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.278.165557