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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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Michal Hroneš @thismialab.bsky.social · Aug 12
Last week we have launched @inaturalist.bsky.social project for Brunei flora. Please feel free to join (in that case let me know, I'll let you in) and help with IDs.

www.inaturalist.org/projects/nat...
Native and Introduced Plants of Brunei Darussalam
The Native and Introduced Plants of Brunei Darussalam - A Citizen Science Initiative is a joint initiative of Institute for Biodiversity and Environmental Research (IBER) Universiti Brunei Darussalam ...
www.inaturalist.org
thismialab.bsky.social
Some winter flowers in @botanickazahradauk.bsky.social
#Hamamelidaceae #Prague #Czechia
January 19, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Reposted by Michal Hroneš
markhughesis.bsky.social
PhD on Begonia speciation at RBGE/Glasgow! Looking at the genomics of reproductive isolation and how fast it evolves - is it the reason this is one of the largest genera of flowering plants?
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
January 8, 2026 at 7:16 AM
Reposted by Michal Hroneš
newphyt.bsky.social
Evidence for plastome loss in the holoparasitic Mystropetalaceae

A #Letter by Yu et al. 👇

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#LatestIssue #PlantScience
Fig. 1 Inflorescences of Dactylanthus taylorii (upper panel), Hachettea austrocaledonica (lower left), and Mystropetalon thomii (lower right).
December 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Reposted by Michal Hroneš
oistedu.bsky.social
The rare, mushroom-like Balanophora plant surprises researchers with their genetic makeup and unconventional role of plastids in biosynthesis, despite being entirely parasitic of a select few trees. New study in @newphyt.bsky.social 👇 www.oist.jp/news-center/...
The evolutionary mysteries of a rare parasitic plant
New study maps the strange genomes of Asia-Pacific Balanophora species, giving new insights into the evolution of parasitic plants and an unconventional role of plastids.
www.oist.jp
December 12, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Reposted by Michal Hroneš
preslia.cz
🌿 Coming soon: Preslia 97(4)! Three new papers shed light on biodiversity loss, plant evolution and overlooked drivers of plant invasions:
🔹 Pannonian sand grasslands lose specialists due to succession and eutrophication
December 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Reposted by Michal Hroneš
phytokeys.pensoft.net
Researchers in Malaysia have discovered an incredible new endemic ‘fairy lantern’ species with fewer than 20 individuals known to exist in the wild.

🔗 Learn all about it on the @pensoft.net blog: blog.pensoft.net/2025/12/02/n...
New critically endangered ‘fairy lantern’ discovered in Malaysia
Just 20 individuals of the unusual species are known to exist in the wild.
blog.pensoft.net
December 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Reposted by Michal Hroneš
rbgkew.bsky.social
Plant taxonomy is disappearing - and so is our ability to protect species 🍂

Nearly half of countries have fewer than 10 plant taxonomists. Kew is working to close the gap, but we need more experts fast.

Read the study’s key findings and what we're doing about it 👇
https://ow.ly/XhJo50XyGAa
Illustration showing a person examining a plant with text about the scarcity of plant taxonomists worldwide.
December 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Reposted by Michal Hroneš
matthewberry.bsky.social
Orchis anatolica sharing space with Muscaris & Ornithogalums.

Taken during one of the @Greenwings #orchid tours.

#RhodesOrchidOdyssey #OrchidsOfRhodes #BotanicalTour
November 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
thismialab.bsky.social
New #Thismia description just dropped in @phytokeys.pensoft.net
Please welcome Thismia selangorensis, a beautiful new mitriform species described by Siti Munirah from vicinity of Kuala Lumpur #Malaysia

doi.org/10.3897/phyt...
November 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Reposted by Michal Hroneš
botanospol.bsky.social
1/2 Konference ČBS proběhne již přespříští víkend. A to na téma "Český výzkum v zahraničí". Těšit se můžete na příspěvky z celého světa. Přihlašování je možné do 16. 11.
November 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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ijpsjournal.bsky.social
JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social

Primers in the Plant Sciences: Tracing the history of angiosperm systematics through Liliales and Asparagales

@astragaler.bsky.social‬, @wile-phylote.bsky.social‬, @tribblelab.bsky.social

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

#PlantScience
IJPS cover in yellow with a cartoon phylogeny of the asparagales and liliales and the title of the primer
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
thismialab.bsky.social
Nice outcome of this paper is that Thismia kobensis is just another Thismia species that behaves as normal plant species (i.e. it has multiple localities). Thismia is probably not extremely rare as popularly believed but just extremely overlooked and hard to find.
plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social Plants, People, Planet @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social · Oct 15
Range‐wide sampling reveals cryptic lineages but largely conserved #mycorrhizal associations in the #Japanese fairy lantern Thismia kobensis

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#FloraObscura article by Suetsugu et al.

#biogeography #ThismiaKobensis

Photo credit: Kenji Suetsugu
Thismia kobensis. The plant truly lives up to its common name “fairy lantern,” with its mysterious form resembling a delicate piece of glassware glowing in the dim forest floor.
October 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Reposted by Michal Hroneš
cmhmaliani.bsky.social
Crocus serotinus, una de las últimas especies que pueden verse en flor en los sitios altos, visitada por una hembra de Scaeva selenitica al sol del mediodía
Una mosca de colores negro y amarillo posada en una flor lila
October 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Reposted by Michal Hroneš
scottzona.bsky.social
Orobanche cooperi is another holoparasitic Orobanchaceae from southwestern North America. Isn’t it fantastic? A bad-ass beauty! #parasite #Orobanchaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of a pair of small, conical, dense inflorescences emerging from the soil. The bracts are dark purple; the tubular flowers are purple with yellow throats. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
October 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Reposted by Michal Hroneš
ejbotany.bsky.social
A species of #Heteropolygonatum #Asparagaceae from #Myanmar and western Yunnan #Gaoligongshan is described as new to science by botanists from @mobotgarden.bsky.social and @thebotanics.bsky.social in #EJBotany #OpenAcess: bit.ly/46IqSMs
September 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Reposted by Michal Hroneš
viep5.bsky.social
Thismia mirabilis K. Larsen
Khao Yai National Park, Thailand 🇹🇭

#botany #plants #mycoheterotrophic #Thismiaceae #Thismia #fairylantern
September 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
thismialab.bsky.social
Observation by my student Věra Kafková is an #observationoftheday on @inaturalist.bsky.social 😍
inaturalist.bsky.social iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · Sep 3
Behold, a plant hybrid in the sunflower, daisy, and aster family: Erigeron × pseudocrispus!

📷 orsejka on iNaturalist
📍 Czechia
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
A plant with white flowers and fuzzy green stems. A plant with white flowers and fuzzy green stems. A plant with white flowers and fuzzy green stems.
September 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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ejbotany.bsky.social
A new paper by I.M. Turner published today in #EJBotany #OpenAccess @thebotanics.bsky.social includes 85 new typifications and nomenclatural clarifications from #G.E.Rumphius’s #HerbariumAmboinense posthumously published between 1741-1750: rbge.cc/47jg8Gh
September 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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preslia.cz
1,615 alien plant taxa now listed for Austria, +49% in 20 years! Mostly garden escapes or stowaways. The updated checklist includes origins, habitats, impacts, and is a key tool for invasion science and policy.
preslia.cz/doi/preslia.2025.413.html
August 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
thismialab.bsky.social
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
Reposted by Michal Hroneš
phytokeys.pensoft.net
This updated checklist of the vascular plants of Myanmar consists of 14,020 species in 2,701 genera and 292 families.

🔗 doi.org/10.3897/phyt...
August 13, 2025 at 10:26 AM
thismialab.bsky.social
Last week we have launched @inaturalist.bsky.social project for Brunei flora. Please feel free to join (in that case let me know, I'll let you in) and help with IDs.

www.inaturalist.org/projects/nat...
Native and Introduced Plants of Brunei Darussalam
The Native and Introduced Plants of Brunei Darussalam - A Citizen Science Initiative is a joint initiative of Institute for Biodiversity and Environmental Research (IBER) Universiti Brunei Darussalam ...
www.inaturalist.org
August 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Reposted by Michal Hroneš
yeewenlow.bsky.social
Here are 2 entities known as a very variable taxon, #Corybas pictus #Orchidaceae. [Left] A lowland “variant” from Borneo, and [Right] A clone very common in cultivation and likely a highland “variant”. Do you think they are the same? Please let me know what you think 🤔
August 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
thismialab.bsky.social
#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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timboeh.bsky.social
🌱 Just published! I am thrilled to see our Flora of Greece treatment for the genus #Muscari (Asparagaceae) online.

Check it out: portal.cybertaxonomy.org/flora-greece...

Also check out the other treatments available for your next trip to Greece!

#Botany #Scilloideae #Taxonomy #FoG
Close-up of Muscari comosum in flower. The inflorescence shows a dense terminal tuft of sterile, vivid violet to bluish-purple flowers, contrasting with the lower, widely spaced, drooping fertile flowers that are pale brownish-yellow with darker tips. The background is a natural, grassy habitat with rocks.
July 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM