Some winter flowers in @botanickazahradauk.bsky.social #Hamamelidaceae #Prague #Czechia

PhD on Begonia speciation at RBGE/Glasgow! Looking at the genomics of reproductive isolation and how fast it evolves - is it the reason this is one of the largest genera of flowering plants? www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Evidence for plastome loss in the holoparasitic Mystropetalaceae A #Letter by Yu et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

The rare, mushroom-like Balanophora plant surprises researchers with their genetic makeup and unconventional role of plastids in biosynthesis, despite being entirely parasitic of a select few trees. New study in @newphyt.bsky.social 👇 www.oist.jp/news-center/...

🌿 Coming soon: Preslia 97(4)! Three new papers shed light on biodiversity loss, plant evolution and overlooked drivers of plant invasions: 🔹 Pannonian sand grasslands lose specialists due to succession and eutrophication

Researchers in Malaysia have discovered an incredible new endemic ‘fairy lantern’ species with fewer than 20 individuals known to exist in the wild. 🔗 Learn all about it on the @pensoft.net blog: blog.pensoft.net/2025/12/02/n...

Plant taxonomy is disappearing - and so is our ability to protect species 🍂 Nearly half of countries have fewer than 10 plant taxonomists. Kew is working to close the gap, but we need more experts fast. Read the study’s key findings and what we're doing about it 👇 https://ow.ly/XhJo50XyGAa

Orchis anatolica sharing space with Muscaris & Ornithogalums. Taken during one of the @Greenwings #orchid tours. #RhodesOrchidOdyssey #OrchidsOfRhodes #BotanicalTour

New #Thismia description just dropped in @phytokeys.pensoft.net Please welcome Thismia selangorensis, a beautiful new mitriform species described by Siti Munirah from vicinity of Kuala Lumpur #Malaysia doi.org/10.3897/phyt...

1/2 Konference ČBS proběhne již přespříští víkend. A to na téma "Český výzkum v zahraničí". Těšit se můžete na příspěvky z celého světa. Přihlašování je možné do 16. 11.

JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social Primers in the Plant Sciences: Tracing the history of angiosperm systematics through Liliales and Asparagales @astragaler.bsky.social‬, @wile-phylote.bsky.social‬, @tribblelab.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #PlantScience

Nice outcome of this paper is that Thismia kobensis is just another Thismia species that behaves as normal plant species (i.e. it has multiple localities). Thismia is probably not extremely rare as popularly believed but just extremely overlooked and hard to find.

Crocus serotinus, una de las últimas especies que pueden verse en flor en los sitios altos, visitada por una hembra de Scaeva selenitica al sol del mediodía

Orobanche cooperi is another holoparasitic Orobanchaceae from southwestern North America. Isn’t it fantastic? A bad-ass beauty! #parasite #Orobanchaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

A species of #Heteropolygonatum #Asparagaceae from #Myanmar and western Yunnan #Gaoligongshan is described as new to science by botanists from @mobotgarden.bsky.social and @thebotanics.bsky.social in #EJBotany #OpenAcess: bit.ly/46IqSMs

Thismia mirabilis K. Larsen Khao Yai National Park, Thailand 🇹🇭 #botany #plants #mycoheterotrophic #Thismiaceae #Thismia #fairylantern

Observation by my student Věra Kafková is an #observationoftheday on @inaturalist.bsky.social 😍

A new paper by I.M. Turner published today in #EJBotany #OpenAccess @thebotanics.bsky.social includes 85 new typifications and nomenclatural clarifications from #G.E.Rumphius’s #HerbariumAmboinense posthumously published between 1741-1750: rbge.cc/47jg8Gh

1,615 alien plant taxa now listed for Austria, +49% in 20 years! Mostly garden escapes or stowaways. The updated checklist includes origins, habitats, impacts, and is a key tool for invasion science and policy. preslia.cz/doi/preslia.2025.413.html

It is time to feed @bsky.app with some #Thismia😁 Please meet #Thismia dasyantha and T. velaris from Sarawak, north Borneo. Published today in #Phytotaxa, read for free here phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/v... #newspecies #mycoheterotrophy

This updated checklist of the vascular plants of Myanmar consists of 14,020 species in 2,701 genera and 292 families. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/phyt...

Last week we have launched @inaturalist.bsky.social project for Brunei flora. Please feel free to join (in that case let me know, I'll let you in) and help with IDs. www.inaturalist.org/projects/nat...

Here are 2 entities known as a very variable taxon, #Corybas pictus #Orchidaceae. [Left] A lowland “variant” from Borneo, and [Right] A clone very common in cultivation and likely a highland “variant”. Do you think they are the same? Please let me know what you think 🤔

#Gastrodia sabahensis is a small but quite colourfull mycoheterotrophic orchid. It was once thought it is endemic to small area around Sandakan ( #Sabah, north #Borneo) but we found it also in #Brunei. Now we found it at the type locality in Kebun Cina, Sandakan after 20+ years.

🌱 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

Tacca cristata from Penang, Malaysia. Endemic to Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore.

We teamed up with Siti Munirah from FRIM Kepong to find #Thismia in #Penang island, Malaysia. And we found it! #taxonomy #undescribed #newspecies

We teamed up with Siti Munirah from FRIM Kepong to find #Thismia in #Penang island, Malaysia. And we found it! #taxonomy #undescribed #newspecies

One fieldwork ended, the second is just starting😍

1/3 Letošní konference ČBS proběhne v Praze v termínu 22. 11. – 23. 11. 2025, a sice na téma "Český botanický výzkum v zahraničí". Byl prodloužen termín pro příhlášení příspěvků, přednášek a posterů, a to do 31. 8. Máte-li tedy možnost a chuť prezentovat svůj zahraniční botanický výzkum, neváhejte.

I'm having a proud supervisor moment as the Czech media currently sharing results of bachelor thesis on adventive flora of Olomouc city by Věra Kafková. #botany #Czechia #neophytes

🧵1/5 Botanical visit to the Krkonoše Mountains, the highest mountain range in Czechia. Peat bogs with Pedicularis sudetica (type locality) and Andromeda polifolia.

With the last flowering #Ornithogalum brevistylum, my fieldwork in Europe is finally over

1/3 Letos byla poprvé udělena Cena Víta Grulicha. Ocenění z rukou Pavla Lustyka a Milana Chytrého převzala u příležitosti zahájení floristického kurzu Věra Kafková. Blahopřejeme!

The famous Viola allchariensis, a steno-endemic species to Allchar in North Macedonia.

Is Leucojum aestivum promoted by grazing? On the grazed wet grassland in the Sava floodplain in Serbia, we have found that cattle avoid this plant. While other plants are heavily grazed, the Leucojum tussocks remain intact.

What's better than celebrate the #TaxonomyRecognitionDay in room full of taxonomists? I had great time at 15th Symposium on the flora of southeastern Serbia and neighboring regions in Niš last three days. #taxonomy #bulbpropaganda #Gagea #Ornithogalum

A native population of Muscari armeniacum in the country that gave it its name: rocky grassland near Lake Sevan, Armenia, 1990 m a.s.l. This species is widely planted in European gardens, where it grows vigorously and often escapes into the wild.

Gastrodia microchila is only the second species of the genus known to occur in Brunei 🇧🇳 Find out more in our paper in @phytokeys.pensoft.net

Meet #newspecies of mycoheterotrophic orchid from Brunei Darussalam: Gastrodia microchila More in our paper in @phytokeys.pensoft.net doi.org/10.3897/phyt...

The Bulb Agenda is alive and well! #Geophytes

AOP and OA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social Deeper bulbs are larger @wile-phylote.bsky.social, Simon Attwood, Carel Fourie, Andrew Hankey, Timothy S. Harvey www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #PlantScience

Another #Ornithogalum flowering right now in Central Europe: O. divergens. This species is usually pentaploid or hexaploid and spread mostly vegetatively using lentil-like bulbils.

Trout Lily (Erythronium americanum) in full bloom this weekend in upstate New York. As a spring ephemeral, this species produces flowers, fruits, & seeds before temperate deciduous tree canopy above leafs out, & it dies back afterward.

Another Star-of-Bethlehem flowering now in northern Pannonia - #Ornithogalum boucheanum. Together with O. nutans (which do not have green stripe on tepals visible when viewed from front), they are sometimes treated as a separate genus Honorius due to their distinctive racemose inflorescence.

Ornithogalum refractum now flowering in northern Pannonia. This semi-ruderal geophyte can be found in termophilous ephemeral vegetation in road ditches and cemeteries. The species diverts its fruit pedicels to the ground, hence the name.

Amazing phylogenomic study of Boraginales by Max Weigend group👇🏻

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

Czech Botanical Society invites you to the Summer school of field botany Bzenec 29. 6. – 5. 7. 2025. More information in the picture:

This is always my favorite time at our campus #PalackyUniversity #Olomouc #Amelanchier