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Michal Hroneš
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#monocots, #bulbs, #mycoheterotrophs and other cool #plants, #polyploidy, #hybridization and stuff, #botanist at Palacky University in Olomouc, Czechia
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It is time to feed @bsky.app with some #Thismia😁
Please meet #Thismia dasyantha and T. velaris from Sarawak, north Borneo.
Published today in #Phytotaxa, read for free here phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/v...
#newspecies #mycoheterotrophy
Clump of Thismia velaris
August 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Doesn't really look the same to me. How about the leaf coloration pattern? I've seen this one last week in Brunei.
August 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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#Gastrodia sabahensis is a small but quite colourfull mycoheterotrophic orchid. It was once thought it is endemic to small area around Sandakan ( #Sabah, north #Borneo) but we found it also in #Brunei. Now we found it at the type locality in Kebun Cina, Sandakan after 20+ years.
July 30, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Tacca cristata from Penang, Malaysia. Endemic to Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore.
July 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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We teamed up with Siti Munirah from FRIM Kepong to find #Thismia in #Penang island, Malaysia. And we found it!
#taxonomy #undescribed #newspecies
Small yellow flower of Thismia with three tepals with long appendage and three tepals with short appendage.
July 23, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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One fieldwork ended, the second is just starting😍
View on the Georgetown above the tropical forest with Araucaria
July 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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With the last flowering #Ornithogalum brevistylum, my fieldwork in Europe is finally over
July 15, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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What's better than celebrate the #TaxonomyRecognitionDay in room full of taxonomists? I had great time at 15th Symposium on the flora of southeastern Serbia and neighboring regions in Niš last three days.
#taxonomy #bulbpropaganda #Gagea #Ornithogalum
Me presenting results of our biosystematic research on Gagea bohemica Selfie of Serbian and Czech joint Ornithogalum team at the conference
May 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Another #Ornithogalum flowering right now in Central Europe: O. divergens. This species is usually pentaploid or hexaploid and spread mostly vegetatively using lentil-like bulbils.
Tuft of Ornithogalum plant with many leaves and white star-like flowers. Main bulb surounded by lentil-like bulbils
April 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Another Star-of-Bethlehem flowering now in northern Pannonia - #Ornithogalum boucheanum. Together with O. nutans (which do not have green stripe on tepals visible when viewed from front), they are sometimes treated as a separate genus Honorius due to their distinctive racemose inflorescence.
Dense racemose inflorescence full of greenish white hexamerous flowers. Inflorescence on the beginning of flowering with greenish white hexamerous star-like flowers.
April 20, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Ornithogalum refractum now flowering in northern Pannonia. This semi-ruderal geophyte can be found in termophilous ephemeral vegetation in road ditches and cemeteries. The species diverts its fruit pedicels to the ground, hence the name.
Cluster of compact, white flowering monocots of the genus Ornithogalum. Cluster of compact, white flowering monocots of the genus Ornithogalum.
April 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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This is always my favorite time at our campus
#PalackyUniversity #Olomouc #Amelanchier
University campus in sunset with nice flowers and shrubs University campus with flowering daffodils and shrubs
April 9, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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#Iris pumila flowering right now in Pannonian grasslands in southern #Moravia.
Small yellow Iris in full bloom.
April 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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First #newspecies of #Thismia in 2025: Thismia aliasii from Peninsular #Malaysia described by Siti Munirah Mat Yunoh and Mohamad Alias. @phytokeys.pensoft.net
phytokeys.pensoft.net/article/1360...
doi.org/10.3897/phyt...
Composite figure showing morphology of the new species Thismia alisii.
March 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Early spring in Kew @rbgkew.bsky.social
#Crocus tommasinianus and Hamamelis sp. div.
February 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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#Narcissus bulbocodium growing on the graves of @rbgkew.bsky.social past keepers at St. Anne's Church at Kew Green, London
Small daffodil with narrow leaves and cream bell-shapped flower A tuft of small daffodils with narrow leaves and cream bell-shapped flower Old church with graveyards and dramatic cloudy sky
February 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Botanic garden of @sciencecharles.bsky.social in Prague, Na Slupi street is the oldest continous #botanicgarden in Czechia.
Botanic garden Na Slupi with the building of department of botany, Charles university. Greenhouses Eranthis hyemalis, a plant with yellow flowers and deeply incissed leaves. Chimonanthus praecox, an early flowering shrub
February 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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First herbarium visit of the 2025. Thanks @dr-norb.bsky.social and Jacek Wajer for hosting us at BM @nhm-london.bsky.social It was fun and fruitful two days with #Monocots.
An illustration of Thismia Herbarium specimen of Thismia Selfie of botanists in herbarium, me with Alena Front building of Natural History Museum London
February 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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#Pentaglottis sempervirens #Boraginaceae in flower spotted on the way to @nhm-london.bsky.social
Evergreen plant with blue flowers flowering in dead leaves. Evergreen plant with blue flowers flowering in dead leaves.
February 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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#Spring is coming to our greenhouse. Flowering #Iridaceae include #Romulea grandiscapa, R. linaresii and #Crocus tommasinianus.
Open flower of Romulea columnae subsp. grandiscapa flowering in greenhouse. Open purple flower of Romulea columnae subsp. grandiscapa flowering in greenhouse. Open small purple flower of Romulea linaresii flowering in greenhouse. Pots with flowering Crocus tommasinianus.
January 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Finally had time to set up an account here. So what better way to start than with the elusive blue #Thismia goodii from Sabah, #Borneo.
Thismia goodii
January 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM