Eight new species of Greigia (Bromeliaceae) from the Andean cloud forests! Their pineapple-flavored fruits feed spectacled bears, their flowers smell like fermented milk, and one, G. muysca, honors the Indigenous Muysca people. Read more: doi.org/10.11646/

Farallones de Cali National Park in Colombia has a tiny páramo full of endemic plants. Meet the newest one: Puya farallonensis! 👉 doi.org/10.1002/njb.... @mobotgarden.bsky.social

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Check out the most recent #LagoLab publication, now out in @botsocamerica.bsky.social American Journal of Botany 🧪! Led by @jankm24.bsky.social, it’s an updated phylogeny of subgenus #Centropogon showing the correlated evolution of pollination traits. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

An analysis of forest plant traits from across the tropical Americas suggests that forests are not changing fast enough to keep up with #ClimateChange. Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/3QLYhyc

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Scientists say amid climate change and biodiversity loss, the world’s herbaria could hold the keys to overcoming the crises in their folders of dried plant specimens. But their future is in question amid cuts to research and education funding: