Putting names to spine fungi in a newly published paper involving RBGV mycologists doi.org/10.1080/002755… 📸: John Walter #RBGVScience RBG Victoria #mycology #sarcodon #hydnellum #neosarcodon #bankeraceae

Despite providing 5% of GBIF @biodiversity.social/@gbif's global observations, the ALA's research impact is greater than it seems...🧑🏼‍🔬🧫 New UNSW research finds the ALA has supported > 9,000 authors & 2,406 scientific publications (to 2023). 63% are open-access! 🔗📚: spr.ly/6012mCn3e

Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria's Jim Willis vacation studentships for 2024–25 are now open to applications. Third or fourth year university science students with interests in plant and/or fungal systematics are invited to apply! #RBGVScience RBG Victoria rbg.vic.gov.au/science/resear…

First Australian record of feather-inhabiting fungus 𝘖𝘯𝘺𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘢 made via iNaturalist. 📷: Sporing bodies on bird carcass: Eleanor Brand; views of sporing bodies with powdery spore mass: Luke Vaughan #RBGVScience RBG Victoria Learn more: taxonomyaustralia.org.au/ajt/papers/03x…

New paper characterising ectomycorrhizal associations in deciduous & evergreen 𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘧𝘢𝘨𝘶𝘴 forests! 📷: Role of ectomycorrhizal fungi for nitrogen cycling in 𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘧𝘢𝘨𝘶𝘴 forests of Patagonia #RBGVScience RBG Victoria Learn more: doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7…

Conservation horticulture and predictive modelling are being used to safeguard the future of 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘷𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘢 (Baw Baw berry). Learn more here: journals.rbge.org.uk/rbgesib/articl… 📸: Virginia Williamson (1,2), Daniel White (3) #RBGVScience RBG Victoria

Like many herbaria and botanic gardens, we are reflecting on the colonial history of the collection and how First Peoples’ contributions to botanical science have been obscured. See: biss.pensoft.net/article/137154… 📸: (1,2) Michael Lawrence-Taylor; (3,4) RBGV #RBGVScience RBG Victoria

We are using collections in our specimen management software to manage incoming exchange data—read more here: biss.pensoft.net/article/137801… 📸: Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria #RBGVScience RBG Victoria

Our Collections Manager discusses our Global Collection with Radio National's Jonathan Green! Learn about the rich history hiding behind one of the specimens in the collection here: abc.net.au/listen/program… 📸: Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria #RBGVScience RBG Victoria

Surveys of over 2,000 plant and animal taxa since the 2019–2020 megafires have revealed the effects of the fires on biodiversity in a new paper published in Nature: nature.com/articles/s4158… 📸: (1,2) N. Reiter, (3) A. Messina #RBGVScience RBG Victoria

Named after the orangutan 🦧, a new pitcher plant is described from Borneo by Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria botanist Dr Alastair Robinson @botanydoc and colleagues in Malaysia. See: publish.csiro.au/bt/Fulltext/BT… 📸: A. Damit; A. Robinson; Nur Adillah Yusof #RBGVScience RBG Victoria

A study from RBGV mycologist Camille Truong investigates mycorrhizae of Melaleuca alternifolia (tea-tree), providing promising insights for sustainable production in the face of climate change: doi.org/10.1007/s11104… 📸: (1) C. Truong (2) L. Florence #RBGVScience RBG Victoria

Sequencing data supports new circumscriptions in Gompholobium, including a newly named taxon: publish.csiro.au/sb/Fulltext/SB… #RBGVScience RBG Victoria 📸: Nicole Crosswell (illustrations); Michael Mathieson (photos)

New book on Wattles of Victoria written by #RBGVScience botanists, Neville Walsh & Dan Murphy, with Arthur Court (dec.) and Allan Gibb (dec.). Published by CSIRO Publishing #Acacia #wattle facebook.com/share/p/16JaSx…

If you're around Melbourne Gardens RBG Victoria , pop into our Tropical Glasshouse to see this wonderful plant in person!

Paper in Scientific Data by Camille Truong RBG Victoria & colleagues, unveils a curated soil #fungus dataset of >2000 eDNA samples that will advance fungal ecology and #conservation research in Australia and Antarctica! #microbiome #biodiversity rdcu.be/eeUtc

Meg Hirst RBG Victoria & colleagues published Thermal germination niche: implications for seed‐based restoration in climate‐sensitive alpine environments, in Restoration Ecology #alpine #climatechange #germinationniche #revegetation #Seeds #RBGVScience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/re…

Big news for #bryophyte fans! RBG Victoria’s #VicFlora now has multi-access ID #keys for all 651 Victorian bryophyte species! Explore user-friendly ID keys for #mosses, leafy #liverworts, thallose liverworts & #hornworts → vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/matrix-k… #RBGVScience #Botany #PlantID

Two #scientificillustration students finished studentships RBG Victoria Over 9 wks, they illustrated #fungi for new edition of 'Fungi Down Under', & leafy #liverworts, for #VicFlora Thanks Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation (USA) & RBG Foundation for funding. #botanicalart

Shining a light on mycorrhizal "dark taxa"—species known only from their DNA sequences that can’t be linked to named or described species RBG Victoria #RBGVScience Available online: cell.com/current-biolog…