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Bionomia @bionomia.net · 2h

Émile-Marie Bodinier https://bionomia.net/Q3588294 collected the holotype ASTERACEAE: Vernonia martini Vaniot in China https://gbif.org/occurrence/1998682510 #TypeSpecimenToday

Image of the holotype ASTERACEAE: Vernonia martini Vaniot. President and Fellows of Harvard College https://huh.harvard.edu/access-digital-reproductions-works-public-domain

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Katherine Arnold @arnoldke.bsky.social · 1d

Love following @bionomia.net & today is my lucky day! I've been working on Drège for several years now - he's a super interesting commercial collector who only left scant archival traces that I've been slowly piecing together 🌿 #nathist #envhist #envhum

Bionomia @bionomia.net · 1d

Johann Franz Drège https://bionomia.net/Q6215799 collected the holotype PLANTAGINACEAE: Plantago cafra Decne. in South Africa https://gbif.org/occurrence/439202719 #TypeSpecimenToday

Image of the holotype PLANTAGINACEAE: Plantago cafra Decne.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Bionomia @bionomia.net · 1d

Johann Franz Drège https://bionomia.net/Q6215799 collected the holotype PLANTAGINACEAE: Plantago cafra Decne. in South Africa https://gbif.org/occurrence/439202719 #TypeSpecimenToday

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Bionomia @bionomia.net · 2d

Ernest Edward Galpin https://bionomia.net/Q5393019 collected the holotype THYMELAEACEAE: Passerina galpinii in South Africa https://gbif.org/occurrence/912227548 #TypeSpecimenToday

Image of the holotype THYMELAEACEAE: Passerina galpinii. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Bionomia @bionomia.net · 3d

Gustaf Oskar Andersson Malme https://bionomia.net/Q429017 collected the holotype GRAPHIDACEAE: Graphina evirescens in Brazil https://gbif.org/occurrence/1086211603 #TypeSpecimenToday

Image of the holotype GRAPHIDACEAE: Graphina evirescens. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Bionomia @bionomia.net · 4d

Johann Natterer https://bionomia.net/Q78618 collected the holotype RHINOCRYPTIDAE: Pteroptochus thoracicus P.L. Sclater, 1865 in Brazil https://gbif.org/occurrence/1291428860 #TypeSpecimenToday

Image of the holotype RHINOCRYPTIDAE: Pteroptochus thoracicus P.L. Sclater, 1865. The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Bionomia @bionomia.net · 5d

Heinrich von Handel-Mazzetti https://bionomia.net/Q134118 collected the holotype SAXIFRAGACEAE: Saxifraga pardanthina Hand.-Mazz. in China https://gbif.org/occurrence/1831000044 #TypeSpecimenToday

Image of the holotype SAXIFRAGACEAE: Saxifraga pardanthina Hand.-Mazz.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Bionomia @bionomia.net · 6d

Cyrus Pringle https://bionomia.net/Q3009492 collected the holotype ASTERACEAE: Zexmenia squarrosa Greenman in Mexico https://gbif.org/occurrence/1998513652 #TypeSpecimenToday

Image of the holotype ASTERACEAE: Zexmenia squarrosa Greenman. President and Fellows of Harvard College https://huh.harvard.edu/access-digital-reproductions-works-public-domain

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 7d

Calling botanical researchers, the School of Natural Science at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in Plant Biodiversity and Conservation.

I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat!

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Bionomia @bionomia.net · 7d

Georg Wilhelm Schimper https://bionomia.net/Q72899 collected the holotype ACANTHACEAE: Adhatoda acuminata (Hochst.) Nees in Ethiopia https://gbif.org/occurrence/1078793038 #TypeSpecimenToday

Image of the holotype ACANTHACEAE: Adhatoda acuminata (Hochst.) Nees. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Bionomia @bionomia.net · 8d

Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius https://bionomia.net/Q77131 collected the holotype PERACEAE: Pera furfuracea Müll.Arg. in Brazil https://gbif.org/occurrence/1848911400 #TypeSpecimenToday

Image of the holotype PERACEAE: Pera furfuracea Müll.Arg.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Bionomia @bionomia.net · 9d

Georg Wilhelm Schimper https://bionomia.net/Q72899 collected the holotype FABACEAE: Trifolium multinerve (Hochst.) A.Rich. in Ethiopia https://gbif.org/occurrence/1078841768 #TypeSpecimenToday

Image of the holotype FABACEAE: Trifolium multinerve (Hochst.) A.Rich.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Bionomia @bionomia.net · 10d

Robert Harold Compton https://bionomia.net/Q4230109 collected the holotype FABACEAE: Arthroclianthus comptonii Baker f. in New Caledonia https://gbif.org/occurrence/1057095254 #TypeSpecimenToday

Image of the holotype FABACEAE: Arthroclianthus comptonii Baker f.. The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Bionomia @bionomia.net · 12d

Cyrus Pringle https://bionomia.net/Q3009492 collected the holotype ASTERACEAE: Tridax platyphylla B. L. Robinson in Mexico https://gbif.org/occurrence/1999019536 #TypeSpecimenToday

Image of the holotype ASTERACEAE: Tridax platyphylla B. L. Robinson. President and Fellows of Harvard College https://huh.harvard.edu/access-digital-reproductions-works-public-domain

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Bionomia @bionomia.net · 13d

George Engelmann https://bionomia.net/Q214946 collected the holotype ASPARAGACEAE: Yucca schottii Engelm. in United States https://gbif.org/occurrence/1259042389 #TypeSpecimenToday

Image of the holotype ASPARAGACEAE: Yucca schottii Engelm.. MBG http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

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Bionomia @bionomia.net · 14d

Arthur Charles Waghorne https://bionomia.net/Q21611959 collected the holotype POACEAE: Agrostis paludosa in Canada https://gbif.org/occurrence/1317745427 #TypeSpecimenToday

Image of the holotype POACEAE: Agrostis paludosa. http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

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Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social · 14d

Manaaki Whenua have appointed Siobhan Leachman as their Wikimedian in Residence!

Supporting staff to share their expertise, @siobhanleachman.bsky.social will be assisting the group with contributing content from their nationally significant collections to openly accessible Wikimedia platforms.

From Collections to Commons: Announcing a Wikimedian in Residence at Manaaki Whenua

From Collections to Commons: Announcing a Wikimedian in Residence at Manaaki Whenua Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research Group now have a Wikimedian in Residence on board, […]

www.wikimedia.nz

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Bionomia @bionomia.net · 16d

Charles Francis Massey Swynnerton https://bionomia.net/Q5077783 collected the holotype GENTIANACEAE: Chironia gratissima in Zimbabwe https://gbif.org/occurrence/912177312 #TypeSpecimenToday

Image of the holotype GENTIANACEAE: Chironia gratissima. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Bionomia @bionomia.net · 18d

Joseph Nelson Rose https://bionomia.net/Q1336049 collected the holotype FABACEAE: Cologania tenuis in Mexico https://gbif.org/occurrence/1322531392 #TypeSpecimenToday

Image of the holotype FABACEAE: Cologania tenuis. http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Bionomia @bionomia.net · 19d

Cyrus Pringle https://bionomia.net/Q3009492 collected the holotype SELAGINELLACEAE: Selaginella carnerosana T.Reeves in Mexico https://gbif.org/occurrence/1930251335 #TypeSpecimenToday

Image of the holotype SELAGINELLACEAE: Selaginella carnerosana T.Reeves. The New York Botanical Garden http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Bionomia @bionomia.net · 20d

Cyrus Pringle https://bionomia.net/Q3009492 collected the holotype ASTERACEAE: Perezia lozanii Greenman in Mexico https://gbif.org/occurrence/1999062087 #TypeSpecimenToday

Image of the holotype ASTERACEAE: Perezia lozanii Greenman. President and Fellows of Harvard College https://huh.harvard.edu/access-digital-reproductions-works-public-domain

Bionomia @bionomia.net · 21d

Henrik Nikolai Krøyer https://bionomia.net/Q2505830 collected the holotype SABELLIDAE: Sabella variegata Krøyer, 1856 https://gbif.org/occurrence/2012925092 #TypeSpecimenToday

Image of the holotype SABELLIDAE: Sabella variegata Krøyer, 1856. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Bionomia @bionomia.net · 23d

Charles Melvin Barber https://bionomia.net/Q48539214 and Charles Henry Tyler Townsend https://bionomia.net/Q2959356 collected the holotype OROBANCHACEAE: Afzelia glandulosa Pennell in Mexico https://gbif.org/occurrence/1999247110 #TypeSpecimenToday

Image of the holotype OROBANCHACEAE: Afzelia glandulosa Pennell. President and Fellows of Harvard College https://huh.harvard.edu/access-digital-reproductions-works-public-domain

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Brandon Samuel Whitley @brandonswhitley.bsky.social · 23d

Please share widely! The Natural History Museum Denmark @nhmdk.bsky.social is offering a PhD fellowship in collection-based Natural History Research, focused on dark taxa & unknown species, pref. including representatives of Danish flora, fauna or geology.

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PhD fellowship in collection-based Natural History Research

Natural History Museum Denmark Faculty of SCIENCE University of Copenhagen   Natural History Museum Denmark invites applicants for a PhD fellowship in coll

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Bionomia @bionomia.net · 24d

John Donnell Smith https://bionomia.net/Q368277 collected the holotype ASTERACEAE: Coreopsis debilis Sherff in United States https://gbif.org/occurrence/1228346724 #TypeSpecimenToday

Image of the holotype ASTERACEAE: Coreopsis debilis Sherff. Field Museum of Natural History (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0

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