With 189 species, #melastomataceae is the ninth richest plant family in Cuba. Impressively, more than 70% of them are endemic to the island where #NYBGscience has been documenting its biodiversity since its founding in 1891. 📸 - Fabián A. Michelangeli #NYBGscience

Ferns, Spikemosses, Clubmosses, and Quillworts of Eastern North America by Dr. Emily Sessa 🌿🔬 is a richly illustrated photographic field guide to the #ferns and #lycophytes of the eastern United States and Canada Explore a free sample: hubs.ly/Q02lQJTG0

New paper out from my postdoc days with Dr. Stacey D. Smith showing how Andean colonization during the mid-Miocene and subsequent rapid climatic #niche evolution, but not #pollinator shifts, increased diversification in the #Melastomataceae tribe Merianieae, doi.org/10.1093/sysbio…

Thanks to Carmen Ulloa and the MO Botanical Garden for hosting us for a busy week of herbarium work on #melastomataceae. #NYBGScience

We're thrilled to share the exciting news of the expansion of our NYBG Science staff, bringing new areas of expertise to our team. Get to know some of the new faces in the lab and the field at NYBG. brnw.ch/21wJ6gJ

Our article on Araucaria angustifolia demography & distribution (past & present) using DNA, pollen fossil records and machine learning is out. Great job by Mariana Vasconcellos and collab with Ana Carnaval Marcelo Reginato Sara_Varela Marcelo Gehara #NYBGScience nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec…

The Steere Herbarium is offering a paid internship available as part of our NSF funded effort to increase access to our specimens from Asia & the Pacific. 🌿 Join an exciting project team at one of the most impactful herbaria in the world! --> nybg.org/about/work-wit… #NYBGscience

Check out the April/2024 issue of TAXON [73(2)]! 🌸🌴🍄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/199681…

Our manuscript is finally out! 🙌🏽 Check it out if you are interested in how humans and climate affected this amazing subtropical forest in Brazil: Mata de Araucárias. Thanks to the Araucaria team Ana Carnaval Fabián A. Michelangeli Marcelo Reginato Sara_Varela Marcelo Gehara

Did you know that NYBG's Steere Herbarium has one of the best collections of #algae in the world? In fact, our 130,896 specimens of algae include more than 10,000 species, and weigh as much as 1.5 bull African Elephants! #NYBGscience

A brief break on botany and research related posts to show the incredible #Auroraborealis as seen from the #catskills tonight.

📢 Our latest #publication in Brittonia describes new combinations for Theobroma, expanding its circumscription to include Herrania, based on phylogenetic evidence recently published: link.springer.com/content/pdf/10… 🌿 #Botany #PlantScience" CacaoWiRe 🍫

Botánicos latinoamericanos: no dejen pasar la oportunidad de hacer investigación en uno de los mejores herbarios del mundo MO Botanical Garden

Our FIRST EPISODE of Plant People is now live, and we’re diving straight into over 130 years of historic Garden collections. 📚🎧 Get to know Rhonda Evans, Director of our LuEsther T. Mertz Library, and Dr. Emily Sessa, Director of our Steere Herbarium: brnw.ch/21wJXeC

Scottmoria is a newly described genus of 23 Lecythidaceae from southern Central America & northern South America named after former NYBG Curator Scott Mori (1941–2020), a world authority on Lecythidaceae diversity & systematics 🌿 #scipub -> researchgate.net/publication/38… #NYBGscience

#melastomatacee symposium underway at the #IBC2024

Botanist and explorer Jeanne Barret among the 10 golden heroines of French history featured at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics! Recognized for her contribution to collect and identify numerous plant species. Brava!! 🤩 💪🏽 👩🏻 🌍 🌺 #IBC2024 end of day relaxation…

On my way to #ESA2024! Come to my session on ‘Aligning Climate Mitigation and Biodiversity Conservation’, Tuesday 8am ☀️ Send me a message if you want to chat about #climatechange #invasivespecies and/or #biodiversity🌱✨

Rocking the Boat is hiring...in San Francisco! We're thrilled to announce that we are expanding to SF as the anchor tenant of the brand new India Basin Waterfront Park in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood. Check out the link and help spread the word! rockingtheboat.org/contact/sfjobs

Research Briefing just out in nature, summarising our #angiosperm "big tree" paper out in April. A handy summary if you don't want to read the whole paper! Kew Science Alexandre Zuntini #Angiosperms353 #phylogenomics Free link: rdcu.be/dRIOX