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The Spirogyra highway.

A bunch of new plant species have been discovered and named in Western Australia, published in the Western Australian Herbarium's science journal Nuytsia. See Taxonomy Australia's Discoveries blog to keep abreast of new species throughout Australia: taxonomyaustralia.org.au/blog/categorie…

Spent hours scrabbling on rocks around Mt Isa hunting Hibiscus and finally found two plants of this undescribed species with a really funky epicalyx. The view wasn't half bad either #hibiscushunter #ozplants

Rediscovered at last! Two rare and presumed-extinct #ferns have been rediscovered on remote mountaintops of the Australian Wet Tropics by #taxonomists Ashley Field and Matt Renner. Find out more from Taxonomy Australia taxonomyaustralia.org.au/post/new-plant…

Proof that an all native freshwater aquarium using NZ native plant and fish species can look awesome! No need for introduced species here. 📷@niwa_nz display. #MacrophyteMonday

Just a bird doing a spot of fishing... 😮

Hypnotic blooming of cactus flowers x.com/natureslover_s…

Here’s the video of me getting my PhD from UO and my poor adviser having to rangle me into the hood. She said I had to walk and wear robes, she just didn’t specify they couldn’t be over a T.rex costume. #phdchat #ScienceTwitter

Nw paper: Towards a new classification of tribe Stachydeae (Lamiaceae): naming clades using molecular evidence (by Salmaki et al.) Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society doi.org/10.1093/botlin…

Yesterday 4 more #kakapo were returned to Whenua Hou, having been given the all-clear from aspergillosis. Esperance, Kuihi, Awarua-4-A-19 and Hinemoa-2-A-19. 14 now returned to Whenua Hou. #kakapo2019 #conservation #parrots #disease

How far do Ibis fly? “Walnut”, a juv Straw-necked Ibis, has flown up to 400km in a day & over 2000km from the Victorian boarder to Ingham, Qld Birds were caught in the Murray River Basin. Some disperse to nearby farm paddocks while others are more adventurous @AusWaterbirds

Myoxanthus lonchophyllus by Jorge Gastin #orchids #orchid #flowers #flower #orchidee #nature #orquideas #orchidea #orchidsofinstagram #orchidlover #orqu #orquidea #plants #follow #garden #flowerstagram #flores #orchidworld #deas #britishorchidsociety #orchidshare #orchidsta…

Dr Trevor Wilson is a research fellow at the National Herbarium of NSW. "Here I am examining an undescribed species I collected on the Cape York Peninsula. I collected DNA, measurements & photos to describe it as new species Plectranthus amiculatus." #ThisIsMyLab #ScienceWeek

200 #kakapo! The population has reached 200 today, with the latest chick (Esperance-3-B-19) becoming a juvenile - when we add birds to the official tally. There are probably more kākāpō alive now than at any time for ≥70 years. #kakapo2019 #conservation pic:Deidre Vercoe

Recalibration of the insect evolutionary time scale using Monte San Giorgio fossils suggests survival of key lineages through the End-Permian Extinction | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10…

Why do botanists keep changing plant names? A new sedge genus named from Australia and Asia rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/Stories/2019/w…

Up to 1000 new species are described in Australia each year - a nice article “Meet the Families” in Cosmos magazine features the work of taxonomists including Jacqueline Nguyen Matt Renner @DrKMAbrams @ErinnFJ Dr Bryan Lessard @TravouillonK

#Stanhopea graveolens from the forests of Mexico Guatemala & Honduras #fragrant flowers detectable from several metres away #Photo taken RHS Garden Wisley #orchid house #flowers #orchidées #photography #orquidea #orchids #orchidea #orchideen #naturephotography #orquídeas #nature #orqu