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...

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

🌸 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

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. 😜

📢 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

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

Hi Bluesky, the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest #OpenAccess digital library of biodiversity literature and archives. We're a global consortium of 660 contributors who've made 63 million pages of biodiversity knowledge freely accessible online. www.biodiversitylibrary.org

First comprehensive #phylogenomic study of #Boraginales. So excited to see this out at last. #UniBonn #morphology With @petermoonlight.bsky.social ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

🌵 Eulychnia acida #Cactaceae in bloom in the #Atacama #Desert, and a bee I caught visiting! 🕵️‍♀️Anyone out there with bee ID skills? Help welcome! 🌵 www.inaturalist.org/observations... 🐝 www.inaturalist.org/observations... #Cactus #Pollination #iNaturalist #BeeID

New phylogenomic study of #Magnoliidae: so excited to see this out at last! doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

Fantastic work! Congratulations!

Check out this new #AJB commentary by Nicholas Turland! From the Shenzhen Code to the Madrid Code: New rules & recommendations for naming #algae, #fungi & plants doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience

My and Derek Setter's work on gene flow is now published in the latest issue of Genetics. We show that it is possible to detect past gene flow between two populations by summarising the asymmetry in pop-specific external branch lengths. 1/2 tinyurl.com/5ff8ch9e

New genus, same old secrets. Flower of Prosa fruticosa, #Atacama endemic, visited by Centris buchholzi. Specialized pollination or generalist strategy in disguise? The desert keeps it mysterious. ➡️ doi.org/10.1002/tax.... 🐝 www.inaturalist.org/observations... #Loasaceae #Pollination #iNaturalist

🎉 Say hi to Prosa fruticosa! First #Angiosperms353 phylogeny of #Loasaceae + SEM cracked open Huidobria—turns out it’s two lineages in disguise. Morphology & molecules agree: it’s genus-splitting time. ➡️ doi.org/10.1002/tax.... #Phylogenomics #Taxonomy #PlantSystematics

The role of fossils for reconstructing the evolution of plant development journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... Illustrations by Julianne Kiely