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Mario Fernández-Mazuecos @mfmazuecos.bsky.social · 29d

A meme for #phylogenetics people.

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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · Feb 14

Kumara, also recently segregated from Aloe, has just two species, the best known of which is K. plicatilis (1st 📷). The lesser-known K. haemanthifolia (2nd 📷, by Peter Thompson CCBYNC4) is a cracker & very worthy of cultivation. 😍

Photo of a shrubby plant with visible, erect stems bearing tufts of distichously arranged leaves at their tips.

Photo of a plant in a rocky habitat. Tight clusters of fan-shaped tufts of leaves hug the ground. A single, erect spike of red, tubular flowers emerges from one plant.

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Sociedad Botánica Española @sebot.bsky.social · Feb 13

Continuamos la serie quincenal del Congreso de la SEBOT con Asturias. 𝘜𝘴𝘯𝘦𝘢 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘢 es un conspicuo líquen de los húmedos bosques del norte peninsular. 🗓️¡Recuerda! Septiembre de 2025: congresosebot2025.com

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Sociedad Botánica Española @sebot.bsky.social · Feb 9

Estas escenas de naranjas llenando las calles pueden resultar raras, pero no en Sevilla. Allí tendrá lugar el II Congreso de Botánica, donde uno de los principales árboles urbanos ed el naranjo amargo, Citrus × aurantium. ¿Quieres saber un poco más? 👇

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Pedro Jiménez-Mejías @pjimmej.bsky.social · Feb 2

The horizon from my office’s windows asked me to give another opportunity to my day 🥰

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Sociedad Botánica Española @sebot.bsky.social · Dec 20

La Segunda Circular del Congreso Español de Botánica de 2025 ya está disponible 👇🏼
congresosebot2025.com/docs/circula...
Tenéis información de cómo proponer simposios y talleres, abierto hasta el 28 de febrero.
Os esperamos del 22 al 25 de Septiembre en Sevilla 🍊 ¡Pronto más info!

congresosebot2025.com

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Pedro Jiménez-Mejías @pjimmej.bsky.social · Dec 18

I think that using coll numbers-when available- as base to create a standardize form could be a more straightforward way to proceed than create a full new system of codes. 😉

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Pedro Jiménez-Mejías @pjimmej.bsky.social · Dec 18

Yet these are the most readily available datum in most specimens to link several specimens unambiguously to a single collection event. This is what is needed to avoid multiplicity of records over databases.

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Pedro Jiménez-Mejías @pjimmej.bsky.social · Dec 18

There is a very old system of universal desambiguators, shared among all duplicates and generated at the moment of field collection: collector number. But these are often not being carefully curated in most databases, since modern curation prefers numerical barcodes.

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Pedro Jiménez-Mejías @pjimmej.bsky.social · Dec 16

The Christmas Sedge announces that... It's time!!!!!

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Sarah Whild @sarahwhild.bsky.social · Dec 10

Some fabulous cheering Luronium natans on a dull December day. Got to love a bit of Floating Water-plantain 💚🌱

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PAISAJE lab @paisaje-lab.bsky.social · Dec 9

The spatial patterns of avian seed dispersal in fragmented anthropogenic landscapes are congruent with an ecological and evolutionary history with open and semi-open habitats created and maintained by extinct megaherbivores

🧑‍🎨: @claraprieto.com

@journalofecology.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/1365...

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Pedro Jiménez-Mejías @pjimmej.bsky.social · Dec 8

Sparrows certainly like a sweet treat!

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Pedro Jiménez-Mejías @pjimmej.bsky.social · Dec 8

Behold! Gluteus minimus, an incertae sedis fossil whose name means "tiny butt" bizarrecreature.blogspot.com/2014/11/crea... Let your imagination gets you to... to the Devonian!

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Pedro Jiménez-Mejías @pjimmej.bsky.social · Dec 8

The generalistic house sparrow drinking nectar from Strelitzia nicholai in Torremolinos during Spring 2023. Is that how bird-plants interactions may start cementing @txaverius.bsky.social?

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Pedro Jiménez-Mejías @pjimmej.bsky.social · Dec 7

A must-see if you visit Boston and something any botanist should have the privilege to see at least once in their lives 😉

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Pedro Jiménez-Mejías @pjimmej.bsky.social · Dec 7

Details even in parts where no one would expect an artist to pay attention to: see the realistic look of these roots!

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Pedro Jiménez-Mejías @pjimmej.bsky.social · Dec 7

It is the pieces representing the most familiar plants where one can see the incredible exatitude of these models.

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Pedro Jiménez-Mejías @pjimmej.bsky.social · Dec 7

The models are not simply an artistic demonstration. They have a great didactic value: the plants represented are anatomically accurate, and the models contain scale-magnifications of relevant organs, tissue and floral pieces.

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Pedro Jiménez-Mejías @pjimmej.bsky.social · Dec 7

The collection is a handmade work performed by the Blaschkas (father and son) during the late 19th and early 20th Century. www.hmnh.harvard.edu/glass-flowers The collection contains >700 plant models from all major taxonomic groups.

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Pedro Jiménez-Mejías @pjimmej.bsky.social · Dec 7

These are not flowers. I repeat: these are NOT flowers. What you see here is the Glass Flowers collection from the Harvard Museum of Natural History, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Come with us to admire some of these stunning pieces! 👇🏼

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Dr. Camille Pagniello (she/her/elle) @fishysounds.bsky.social · Dec 5

Latest work on Atlantic bluefin #tuna tagged off the coast of Norway showing their extensive annual migrations, high site-fidelity and dynamic vertical diving behaviour in the Atlantic #Ocean & Mediterranean Sea: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

#fisheries #oceanography #movementecology

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · Dec 5

#Drosera hyperostygma #Droseraceae! The Orange flowered Pygmy Sundews are a joy to see! These are common species in the Perth hills distinguished by their black stamen filaments and black egg shaped stigma for which they are named for! #WildOz

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Patrick Weigelt @patrickweigelt.bsky.social · Dec 1

Phylogenetic turnover of seed plants 🌱 at a global 🌐 and across phylogenetic scales: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Environmental filtering, not dispersal history, explains global patterns of phylogenetic turnover in seed plants at deep evolutionary timescales - Nature Ecology & Evolution

This modelling study integrates comprehensive regional plant inventories, environmental conditions and palaeogeographical reconstructions to assess the relative roles of environmental filtering and di...

www.nature.com

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Pedro Jiménez-Mejías @pjimmej.bsky.social · Dec 3

When you can't decide if you love dogs more than the herbarium.

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