📢 We are looking for a motivated PhD candidate to join our new DFG-funded project on the evolution of Ribes (currants & gooseberries) at the University of Bonn! 🌱 Phylogenomics 🧬 Reference genomes & pangenomics 🌍 Historical biogeography 🏛️ Plant taxonomy Please share! tinyurl.com/Ribes-Phylo

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Imagine you're shrunk down to amoeba size & could observe a tiny plant root under the soil. The first thing you might notice is that the root isn't all plant cells. Both inside & outside the root are symbiotic fungal cells (grey in photo) in close association, working together. (🔬:Eye of Science)

A plant nearly 900 km offshore 🌊 #Cryptantha stylosa is endemic to Isla San Ambrosio, a tiny island far west of central #Chile. Long treated as a taxonomic outlier, it turns out to be a striking example of long-distance dispersal in #Boraginaceae. @phytokeys.pensoft.net doi.org/10.3897/phyt...

Ausstellung „BananaRama – Eine Forschungsreise zur #Banane“ Einblicke - von Labor bis Acker - in Biologie & Vielfalt - neue Sorten - bis #Landwirtschaft - etc. noch bis 21. Sept. @unibonn.bsky.social #Bonn www.botgart.uni-bonn.de/de/ihr-besuc...

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A new white-flowered species of Gagea has been discovered in the Fergana Valley of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/phyt...

🌱 Just published! I am thrilled to see our Flora of Greece treatment for the genus #Muscari (Asparagaceae) online. Check it out: portal.cybertaxonomy.org/flora-greece... Also check out the other treatments available for your next trip to Greece! #Botany #Scilloideae #Taxonomy #FoG

Cultivated wild beauty from Japan! 🇯🇵 #Cirsium purpuratum, native to forest edges and slopes in Japan, is thriving in full-sun, dry habitats at #Bonn Botanic Gardens 🌞🌿 Its striking flowers & tolerance suggest real potential as a garden plant in Europe. #botany #Asteraceae #UrbanEcology

🌍 Help model biodiversity from genes to ecosystems! 🧬🌿 Prof. Cabral’s group @unibonn.bsky.social is hiring a scientific programmer (100%, permanent). Apply by 27.07.2025 → tinyurl.com/ecomod-bonn 📣 Spread the word! #EcoModeling #ComputationalEcology #BIOB #Botany #BiodiversityScience

🎓PhD student M. Pourghorban leads this new study tracing the evolutionary history of #Cynoglossum 🌍 Turns out: the genus originated in the Irano-Turanian region and spread westward A @humboldt-foundation.de funded 🇮🇷🇩🇪 collab, now out in Cladistics: 📄 doi.org/10.1111/cla.... #Boraginales #IranFlora

📜 This stunning 1774 illustration by Jacquin is now the lectotype of #Muscari tenuiflorum. We typified three iconic species—M. armeniacum, M. commutatum & M. tenuiflorum—laying groundwork for future revisions & #FloraOfGreece 🇬🇷. 📄 doi.org/10.1002/tax.... #Typification #BotanicalArt #Aparagaceae

The systematics of #Bellevalia remain a challenge—but step by step, we’re making progress! 🔬 Together with colleagues from Iran 🇮🇷, we revisited a puzzling species pair using morphology, fieldwork & molecular tools. 📄 doi.org/10.11646/phy... #Scilloideae #Asparagaceae #FloraOfIran

The June solstice has passed, which means we have a fresh update for our WFO Plant List! The big news since December is we now have more than 200 named co-authors on the WFO Plant List. Watch to see what else is new and visit worldfloraonline.org to browse the Plant List.

So we now have two #PlantScience specific Clusters of Excellence in Germany... well done! 👍 #CEPLAS3 #GreenRobust @ceplas.bsky.social

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Die #Exzellenzcluster stehen fest: Heute hat die Exzellenzkommission 70 Projekte zur Förderung ausgewählt. 45 Cluster werden fortgesetzt, 25 neu eingerichtet. Die Förderung beginnt ab 1. Jan. 2026 für 7 Jahre, die Fördersumme beträgt insg. 539 Mio. €/Jahr. Die Liste: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3

🌸 Ancient blooms from Bonn! Julia Gravendyck and team reveal flowering plants existed at least 123 million years ago—2 million years earlier than thought! Based on fossil pollen from Portugal 🇵🇹 📄 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #Botany #Paleobotany #PlantEvolution #Fossils #UniversityOfBonn #PNAS #Eudicots

Barremian tricolpate pollen from Portugal—New evidence for the age of eudicot-related angiosperms | PNAS

New evidence on the timing of early angiosperm evolution is presented through the discovery of four well-dated tricolpate pollen grains from the Ea...

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Check out this new #AJB essay by @thebeachcomber.bsky.social, @hsauquet.bsky.social & @willcornwell.bsky.social! #Citizenscience records are fuelling exciting discoveries of new plant species doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #iNaturalist #herbarium

🌺 #Echium wildpretii .. from 🌋Tenerife to #Bonn! Our garderns tested overwintering under climate change—most plants survived ❄️🌱 Now buzzing with pollinators 🐝 #BonnBotanicGardens #ClimateChange #Botany 📄 More on the evolution of #Boraginales in our new paper in Ann. Bot.: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

🌵 Happy #FloraFriday : "The Cactaceae" by Britton & Rose (1919-1923) is a early definitive on cactus taxonomy, featuring exquisite #SciArt by @nybg.bsky.social artist Mary Emily Eaton. Dive into this masterpiece on #BHLib via NYBG: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... #Botany 🧪

I have no idea, yet, how to make use of the package, but the name itself dictates that I have to try it out. 😜

Methods in Ecology and Evolution@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · last yr.

📖Published📖 In our new application paper Sanderson et al. introduce Dude, Everyone Wants Pattern Analysis Tools (DEWPAT), a Python package for measuring complex colour patterns from digital image 🌈 📸 Read the full article here 🌎 🧪 👇

📢 New synonymy in Bellevalia! Morphology + molecular data = 🧬 one species, not two: B. shiraziana is now B. decolorans. Endemic, rare, and finally resolved. 🔗 doi.org/10.11646/phy... #PlantTaxonomy #IranFlora #Systematics

Insights from morphological investigations and molecular phylogenetics reveal a new synonymy in Bellevalia (Asparagaceae: Scilloideae) in Iran | Phytotaxa

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Ever seen teal flowers? 🟢🟠 Puya alpestris ssp. zoellneri looks unreal—metallic blooms with orange stamens, bird-pollinated & found only in #Chile 🇨🇱. All six Chilean #Puya species are endemic & form a distinct clade in this ancient genus. #DesertPlants #AndesFlora #Bromeliads #botany 🐦🌺

The stunning Himalayan Mayapple (Sinopodophyllum hexandrum, #Berberidaceae) is blooming at #Bonn #BotanicGardens! 🌸 Its poisonous rhizomes have anticancer power 💊 but face threats from overharvesting. 🚨 Listed by #IUCNRedList (VU) & #CITES. #RarePlants #Conservation #MedicinalPlants

Nolana reichei #Solanaceae is a coastal endemic from the southern #AtacamaDesert, #Chile. Like many Nolana spp., it has a fleshy taproot. No filter – colors range from yellow to blue, purple, and black! 🔎 #iNaturalist www.inaturalist.org/observations... #Nolana #DesertPlants #Biodiversity #Botany

Spring just got more exciting! The #Scilloideae TEN is now part of the #WFO family, diving deep into the taxonomy of #bulbs. From #Hyacinthus to #Ornithogalum, we're unearthing the taxonomic secrets of these #geophytes. Join us on this botanical journey. ➡️ about.worldfloraonline.org/tens/asparag...

Just look at those trichomes! A wonderfully hairy Green Alkanet (Pentaglottis sempervirens) on our lane. Originally from SW Europe, it’s spreading rapidly in many areas plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9... #BankholidayBlooms @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Two peonies are native to western N. America. Paeonia californica & P. brownii (📷: Jim Morefield CCBYSA2) comprise the section Onaepia [anagram!]. They have similar flowers (not very showy). Seeds are dispersed by scatter-hording rodents. #Paeoniaceae #peony #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

One of five new species in our revision: #Austrocactus diamantinus 💎 Upright, short, club-shaped—and endemic to the Pampa del Diamante. Meet the local hero of #Mendoza ➡️ doi.org/10.1002/tax.... #NewSpecies #Patagonia #CactusLove #Taxonomy

Peak Bluebell. Some Dorset woods are already at the zenith of their display but each location works to its own timetable. The Wild Garlic flowers are also really beginning to show in some copses. #dorset #botany #bluebells #wildfloerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

🌵 Our full taxonomic & phylogenomic revision of Austrocactus is out! 17 species (5 new!), 3 sections, 2 subgenera—and one prickly path through Patagonia. ddRADseq meets cactus chaos, published in #Taxon ➡️ doi.org/10.1002/tax.... #Cactaceae #Systematics #ddRADseq #Taxonomy #newspecies

Alrawia bellii (Baker) Perss. & Wendelbo Asparagaceae Zagros, Iran April 2025 Elevation 1860m