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worldfloraonline.bsky.social @worldfloraonline.bsky.social · 11d

Happy World Coffee Day! WFO is looking for a coffee expert, and we don’t mean your local barista.
We want to form a Taxonomic Expert Network (TEN) for Rubiaceae, the coffee and quinine family. Swipe through to learn more about TENS, and send your favorite rubiaceae experts our way!

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alanelliott.bsky.social @alanelliott.bsky.social · Aug 12

Call for papers on #Rhododendron living collections for a special issue of Sibbadia the journal of botanical horticulture. More info at the end of the link.

journals.rbge.org.uk/rbgesib/anno...

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Rhododendron Research @heyrhododendron.bsky.social · Jul 10

With Love. From an Invader. – Rhododendrons, Empire, China and Me

An intensive field study. Every other day for a year, Yan Wang Preston (CN/GB) went to a particular love-heart-shaped Rhododendron ponticum bush and photographed it.

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#nativeplants
#invasiveplants
#Rhododendronponticum

With Love. From an Invader. – Rhododendrons, Empire, China and Me - The Eriskay Connection

An intensive field study on a Rhododendron ponticum bush provides insight into our view of native and non-native on an ecological and political level.

www.eriskayconnection.com

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worldfloraonline.bsky.social @worldfloraonline.bsky.social · Jun 25

The June solstice has passed, which means we have a fresh update for our WFO Plant List! The big news since December is we now have more than 200 named co-authors on the WFO Plant List. Watch to see what else is new and visit worldfloraonline.org to browse the Plant List.

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worldfloraonline.bsky.social @worldfloraonline.bsky.social · Apr 11

Welcome to one of our newest TENs, Asparagaceae subfam. Scilloideae! This new TEN will focus on the Asparagaceae subfamily Scilloideae, which includes spring species like hyacinths and bluebells, could include as many as 70 genera and 1,000 species. It is being led by Mario Martínez Azorín at @ua.es

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worldfloraonline.bsky.social @worldfloraonline.bsky.social · Apr 9

Welcome to one of our newest TENs, Loasaceae.
Loasaceae is a family of flowering plants that includes 22 genera. This TEN is led by Rafael Acuña-Castillo at the University of Costa Rica and Max Weigend @unibonn.bsky.social

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worldfloraonline.bsky.social @worldfloraonline.bsky.social · Mar 27

Welcome to one of our newest TEN, Boraginales! Boraginales includes 53 genera and 3,517 species. This new TEN includes the former smaller TENS of Cordiaceae and Boraginaceae subtribe Amsinckiinae. It is led by Max Weigend at @unibonn.bsky.social
and Michael G Simpson at @sdsuresearch.bsky.social.

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worldfloraonline.bsky.social @worldfloraonline.bsky.social · Mar 25

Welcome to one of our newest TEN, Podostemaceae. Podostemaceae is a family of aquatic herbs that includes 52 genera that live attached to rocks in river rapids and waterfalls. This TEN is led by Ana Maria Bedoya at @nybg.bsky.social and Marco Pellegrini at Wits University.

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worldfloraonline.bsky.social @worldfloraonline.bsky.social · Mar 20

Welcome to one of our newest TEN, Convolvulaceae! Convolvulaceae, commonly called the bindweeds or morning glory family, includes 59 genera and 1,982 species, This TEN is led by Ana Rita Giraldes Simoe at @mobotgarden and builds on the existing Convolvulaceae Network.

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worldfloraonline.bsky.social @worldfloraonline.bsky.social · Mar 14

Welcome to one of our newest TEN, Combretaceae.

Combretaceae, or the white mangrove family, includes 10 genera and 585 species. This TEN is led by Olivier Maurin from Plantentuin Meise in Belgium.

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worldfloraonline.bsky.social @worldfloraonline.bsky.social · Mar 12

Welcome to one of our newest TEN, Clusiaceae.
Clusiaceae is a family of trees and shrubs that includes 18 genera and 905 species. This TEN is led by Manuel Luján Anzola at @rbgkew.bsky.social

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Rhododendron Research @heyrhododendron.bsky.social · Mar 6

Rhododendron Research Network Rockin’ Around the Clock
May 29-30, 2025

A FREE virtual convention highlighting a global community of researchers, conservationists and members of the public working in genus Rhododendron 🪴🧪🌺

Convention schedule and registration:
medeiroslab.com/2025-virtual...

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Rhododendron Research @heyrhododendron.bsky.social · Mar 6

Rhododendron austrinum
leaf cross-section stained with safranin-O and illuminated with UV
Xylem and phloem in midrib vein in oranges and reds, parenchyma cells in blues and purples
40x magnification

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worldfloraonline.bsky.social @worldfloraonline.bsky.social · Feb 27

Thanks to The Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve for hosting the World Flora Online’s 24th Council Meeting last week! Around 40 individuals, representing 16 countries, participated in our latest meeting in person and virtually.

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worldfloraonline.bsky.social @worldfloraonline.bsky.social · Feb 14

Happy Valentine's Day from WFO!

Instead of flowers, we're hoping for rose and violet experts to help us build more Taxonomic Expert Networks, or TENs.

Know a Rosaceae and Violaceae expert? Reach out to us at [email protected].

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worldfloraonline.bsky.social @worldfloraonline.bsky.social · Feb 10

World Flora Online is now on Bluesky! Follow us for more updates and news from WFO.

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Michael Pirie @piriemike.bsky.social · Jan 18

🥳 Paper out! phytokeys.pensoft.net/article/1363...

Maximising informativeness for target capture-based phylogenomics in Erica (Ericaceae)

Plant phylogenetics has been revolutionised in the genomic era, with target capture acting as the primary workhorse of most recent research in the new field of phylogenomics. Target capture (aka Hyb-S...

phytokeys.pensoft.net

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alanelliott.bsky.social @alanelliott.bsky.social · Jan 15

The follow up on the previous post that we looked at based on some of the comments received about the imminent demise of plant taxonomy.

There are more plant taxonomists today than there have ever been.
stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/39789

#worldfloraonline #botany #taxonomy

There are more plant taxonomists today than there have ever been

In a previous post I proposed that the rate of plant species discovery had not significantly changed in the last fifty years despite enormous changes in technology. A comment was made that this might ...

stories.rbge.org.uk

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alanelliott.bsky.social @alanelliott.bsky.social · Jan 15

Molecular biology and the internet have had no effect on the rate of plant species discovery.

The title is somewhat clickbaity but probably correct.

stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/39768

My colleague Roger doing some investigating of World Flora Online data we manage.

Molecular biology and the internet have had no effect on the rate of plant species discovery

The title is somewhat clickbaity but probably correct. Working on the World Flora Online Plant List means we are continuously processing and reprocessing a list of all known vascular plant and bryo...

stories.rbge.org.uk

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Eric Schuettpelz @ferncurator.bsky.social · Jan 3

Travel awards (up to $5,000) are available to support the study of collections in the United States National Herbarium. Applications are due on 15 January: naturalhistory.si.edu/research/bot...

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alanelliott.bsky.social @alanelliott.bsky.social · Dec 21

World Flora Online December 2024 Plant List and data release is live.

All made possible thanks to the 195 co-authors.
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available to browse here www.wfoplantlist.org.

all the data is here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

#wfo #worldfloralonline #botany

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alanelliott.bsky.social @alanelliott.bsky.social · Dec 21

You can read about the release here
about.worldfloraonline.org/articles

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alanelliott.bsky.social @alanelliott.bsky.social · Dec 21

World Flora Online December 2024 Plant List and data release is live.

All made possible thanks to the 195 co-authors.
(See 2 of 2)

available to browse here www.wfoplantlist.org.

all the data is here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

#wfo #worldfloralonline #botany

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Edinburgh Journal of Botany @ejbotany.bsky.social · Dec 20

An obituary celebrating the life and research of Professor Mary Gibby, Ph.D., OBE, FLS, FRSE, PPBPS (1949-2024) by Professor Stephen Blackmore #RoyalBotanicGarden #Edinburgh and Professor Johannes Vogel #MuseumFürNaturkunde #Berlin published today #OpenAccess in #EJBotany: rbge.cc/4gsoNbc

Professor Gibby collecting Pelargonium multibracteatum from the Sumara Pass in Yemen, 4 February 2007. Photograph by Leigh Morris.

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Jess Rickenback @jess-rickenback.bsky.social · Nov 25

Interested in plant systematics, ecology, and taxonomy in the tropics? Looking for a PhD? The next round of UKRI funded PhDs @EdinburghUni are out, & include 3 with me, @xaxapezzini and David Harris at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Applications due 6 Jan. e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super... #botany

A giraffe and a spiny plant in Kenya, to illustrate the concept of trait evolution as a response to herbivory

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