Fascinating talk by Alexandre Zuntini on DNA barcoding, at Systematics Association Conference 2024! The Systematics Association

A simple farewell lunch outing in the Gardens with Dr Eve Lucas (RBG Kew) and Dr Timothy Utteridge before she leaves this evening for the UK. Looking forward to her next visit for more work in Southeast Asian #Syzygium and #Myrtaceae. #SBGScience @KewScience

It’s a beautiful (and hope-filled) day in London - I’m so lucky to get to work in the amazing Kew herbarium every day, following in the footsteps of botanical giants #taxonomy #iamabotanist

Very grateful & deeply honored to receive this distinction from Colombian Embassy UK. Thank you Ambassador Roy Barreras for recognizing our #orchid research! Proud to represent #Colombia & @KewScience & I look forward to discussing how we can enhance orchid research in Colombia! 1/3

So happy to see our paper featured on the cover (designed by yours truly☺️) of Molecular Biology and Evolution! 🌿The artwork shows the multi-faceted aspects of #coca discussed in our study, from #cocaine, leaf shapes, to its tradition & value for #indigenous ppl. Pls share! academic.oup.com/mbe/article/41…

Plenty of nice #WetlandPlants at Thursley Common NNR, Surrey today including Bog Ashodel, Oblong-leaved and Round-leaved Sundew, Marsh St John’s-wort, White-beaked Sedge, Common Marsh Bedstraw, Jointed Rush, Lesser Bladderwort and Marsh Cudweed #wildflowerhour BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

#IBC2024 starting now with the amazing Sandra Knapp on Why botany? Why now?

And what an honour seeing our work on Angiosperms Phylogenomics (check here: rdcu.be/dOvNQ) highlighted in her talk as an example of collaboration for making great science!

Great to hear from Alexandre Zuntini about all the exciting work planned in Lamiales - an amazing order of flowering plants (with many important parasitic plants too!) #IBC2024

New paper 🚨 !! Botanical survey of an isolated inselberg archipelago in the Namib Sand Sea in Namibia! Follow the link to read & see pics of these remote inselbergs and their magical flora (and fauna) Gobabeb Namib Research Institute @KewAfrica Published in NJE nje.org.na/index.php/nje/…

Ecologically important & found growing in the #Rainforest understorey, #Besleria has been understudied...until now where phylogenetic analysis confirmed its monophyly status & inferred its biogeographical history! 👇 academic.oup.com/botlinnean/art… The Linnean Society of London Laura Clavijo

I’ve likened the clove genus, #Syzygium, to a “large monstrous 🥧” with these questions in mind: 1) which part to eat first, 2) how to make the first cut, and 3) how big are the cuts? So, one of the “slices” is now published 😊! #SBGScience @KewScience publish.csiro.au/SB/SB24006

🚨 New paper !! :)

🚨 new paper! Monograph of the amazing parasitic plant genus Lathraea with Chris Thorogood & Spyros Tsiftsis doi.org/10.11646/phyto…

I am very happy to share that the Missouri Botanical Garden has received funding to digitize their entire herbarium! This work - made possible by an anonymous $14.4 million grant - will image and transcribe all 8 million specimens in the MO herbarium. MO Botanical Garden