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Will molecular #phylogenetics help decrease nomenclatural instability? Check out this new #AJB commentary by Peter Lesica & Matt Lavin. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj… #botany #PlantTaxonomy Wiley Plant Science

Check out our cool big paper on #Saxifraga, distinguishing biome shift from biogeographic shift in the Arctic-alpine system. Changing biome is easier than moving long-distance and Arctic-alpine transitions are mostly Plio-Pleistocene. nature.com/articles/s4146…

In celebration of Kew’s Madagascar themed orchid festival, here are a few incredible orchids I got to see during the Kew MSc trip to Madagascar! Kew Science Kew Madagascar 📷: Bulbophyllum analamazoatrae, Microcoelia gilpinae, Cynorkis sp., Aerangis macrocentra

An oil painting of a tropical orchid (Aeridostachya robusta) I illustrated a few years ago, inspired by an encounter with the plant in the cloud forests of Borneo.

Frequently #botanists describe new species, sometimes they described a new genus, but very rarely they describe a new #family! Introducing Afrothismiaceae, a new family endemic to #tropical #Africa by Martin Cheek Marybel Soto Gomez et al doi.org/10.1007/s12225…

What an amazing achievement!!

Our team are excited to be working in Jamaica this week, delivering a CEPF funded IUCN Red List Assessor Training workshop at the University of West Indies.

Had such a great time The UWI Mona Campus delivering IUCN red list training with my colleagues! Huge thanks to all the participants!

I’m sorry but this figure.. an epiphytic orchid rooted in soil? 😳

Vida Svahnström This is really painful... and it is published in the same journal where we had paper how important is correct visualisation of plants including their belowground organs! bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.100…

This map shows the most common name for a creek in each state using data from the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) database. I made this map in 2015 and stumbled across it today.

Orchids are amazing!

This weekend, the team visited Guana Island, where sheep have already been removed years ago. The vegetation is lush and there are plenty of seedling and sapling around, giving us clues how Great Tobago vegetation might recover, once goats are irradicated. #KewBVI #BVITIPAs

Autumn Lady’s-tresses (Spiranthes spiralis) was quite frequent on short dune turf at Gwithien in Cornwall this week, always lovely to see #wildflowerhour #orchids

I’m officially a PhD student! 🥳 Looking forward to working on epiphytes and extinction risk for the next few years as part of SSCP DTP at Imperial College London and Kew Science 🌿🌳

We have a new paper out in Webbia journal on the endemic and near-endemic #Acanthaceae of #Ethiopia including two new and one resurrected species doi.org/10.36253/jopt-… - the result of a productive internship at Kew by Hanny Lidetu Kew Science Kew Africa Team

Psychilis krugii, my most exciting find during a recent trip to Puerto Rico. So cool to see these beautiful pseubobulbous epiphytes growing on low shrubs and Agave in the island’s southwestern dry forests. The flowers were incredibly variable just within this small population.