Carex is one of the largest plant genera with over 2K sedges species >200 of which occur in South America. Check out a wonderful paper by P. Muñoz-Schüler et al including the description of the new Andean species C. guaguarum named using a Quechua word doi.org/10.1007/s122...

On December 5th, the official launch of the Flora Uruguaya Online took place in the Faculty of Agronomy at the Universidad de la República, Montevideo/Uruguay. Congrats!! 🌻🌸🇺🇾💻🎉 florauruguaya.org Also check out the article available in Taxon. 😊 Photos: João Iganci

The origin & diversification of #Amaryllidaceae: A phylogenetic & biogeographic analysis New #AJB research by Zoë Dennehy-Carr, Kálmán Könyves, Chris Yesson, John David & Alastair Culham doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #plantscience #biogeography #FossilFriday #evolution

IAPT Webinar Series: Sharing taxonomic data with biodiversity and nomenclature databases! Join us on October 22nd to celebrate the International Day of Climate Action and World Sustainability Day! 🪸🍄🌸🎉 @barbarathiers.bsky.social @pjimmej.bsky.social @isabellarridon.bsky.social

Aguado-Lara et al. trace the biogeographic history of the world's most isolated insular floras, and highlight the urgent need for conservation plans in the sub-Antarctic, especially in the face of #ClimateChange. doi.org/10.1111/jse.... #ecology #evolution #PlantScience

To-Do List: ✅Catch up on your reading ✅Experience breakthrough #systematics and #evolution research ✅Celebrate the winners of the #JSE 2024 Outstanding Papers Award! ⭐️Looks like we've got you covered!⭐️ jse.ac.cn/EN/news/news... #PlantScience #ecology

#February11 International Day of Women and Girls in Science 💚🌻 Vicki Funk in 2014. Photo: Mauricio Diazgranados.

herbariodigital.cl now boasts 100,000 digitized specimens! 🎉 This incredible milestone was marked by the recently discovered 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘰𝘱𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢. Advancing efforts to integrate Chile's biodiversity data for exploration, research, and management. #DigitalHerbarium ieb-chile.cl/noticia/herb...

Travel awards (up to $5,000) are available to support the study of collections in the United States National Herbarium. Applications are due on 15 January: naturalhistory.si.edu/research/bot...

Wrapping up a nice pair of weeks in Scotland with an express two-day visit to @thebotanics.bsky.social herbarium at beautiful Edinburgh. Sampling Asian Carex for digitization for the #iSedge project 🫶. These high-quality images will soom be available at www.cyperaceae.org/ Bye Edi!! see you soon 🌻

Just in time for the year's end: an updated geochronology chart from the ICS: stratigraphy.org/ICSchart/Chr...

New study by @tribblelab.bsky.social @jimarcor.bsky.social @marcialescudero.bsky.social Michael May, Rosana Zenil-Ferguson and myself just out: Introduces a novel HiSSE chromosome model and demonstrates the importance of chrom. evol. in #sedge diversity. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Such productive weeks revising New York and Harvard herbaria! We have found hundreds of Cyperaceae species to add to the iSedge project from TETTRIs

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...

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! 😍