Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
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International Botanical Journal covering all aspects of systematic & evolutionary botany of living & fossil plants & fungi 🌺🌿🌴🍄🟫
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This #FossilFriday marvel at the presence of Astropanax leaves & pollen in Ethiopia 21.73 million years ago, found in the Mush Valley, providing the earliest evidence for Araliaceae on the African continent! (around the time when ancient rhinos & horses began to evolve)🌍🧪
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November 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
This #FossilFriday marvel at the presence of Astropanax leaves & pollen in Ethiopia 21.73 million years ago, found in the Mush Valley, providing the earliest evidence for Araliaceae on the African continent! (around the time when ancient rhinos & horses began to evolve)🌍🧪
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New Species Alert!
Two new species of the genus Cedrela from W Ecuador are described based on extensive comparative analysis, aiding in the classification of their conservation status! Both endangered by #Deforestation, this highlights the importance of continued research 👇
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Two new species of the genus Cedrela from W Ecuador are described based on extensive comparative analysis, aiding in the classification of their conservation status! Both endangered by #Deforestation, this highlights the importance of continued research 👇
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November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
New Species Alert!
Two new species of the genus Cedrela from W Ecuador are described based on extensive comparative analysis, aiding in the classification of their conservation status! Both endangered by #Deforestation, this highlights the importance of continued research 👇
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Two new species of the genus Cedrela from W Ecuador are described based on extensive comparative analysis, aiding in the classification of their conservation status! Both endangered by #Deforestation, this highlights the importance of continued research 👇
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Effective conservation relies on accurate research, monitoring & understanding of species. Here, the first comprehensive IUCN Red List assessment of the High Atlas vascular flora has been done, helping to uncover extinction threats to endemic flora! 🧪 🌍 👇
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November 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Effective conservation relies on accurate research, monitoring & understanding of species. Here, the first comprehensive IUCN Red List assessment of the High Atlas vascular flora has been done, helping to uncover extinction threats to endemic flora! 🧪 🌍 👇
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As Alphaville famously sang...hummingbird-pollinated Costus flowers appear to stay forever young, keeping their juvenile traits through paedomorphosis, whilst bee-pollinated ones do not! 🧪 🌍 👇
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November 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
As Alphaville famously sang...hummingbird-pollinated Costus flowers appear to stay forever young, keeping their juvenile traits through paedomorphosis, whilst bee-pollinated ones do not! 🧪 🌍 👇
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Piper (no, not the magical man who tamed the rats) is the largest genus of Piperaceae & second largest angiosperm, yet its biogeography & global radiation still requires research. Here, phylogenetic analysis investigated divergence time, revealing it spread to mainland Africa twice! (1/2)🌍 🧪 👇
November 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Piper (no, not the magical man who tamed the rats) is the largest genus of Piperaceae & second largest angiosperm, yet its biogeography & global radiation still requires research. Here, phylogenetic analysis investigated divergence time, revealing it spread to mainland Africa twice! (1/2)🌍 🧪 👇
Are you as bromeli-MAD about bromeliads as us? Then you're in luck!
Following the success of our previous special issues, we're pleased to announce a new one on Bromeliaceae Evolution & Systematics! Keep an eye on our socials as we share papers over the next few weeks 🌍 🧪 👇
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Following the success of our previous special issues, we're pleased to announce a new one on Bromeliaceae Evolution & Systematics! Keep an eye on our socials as we share papers over the next few weeks 🌍 🧪 👇
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October 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Are you as bromeli-MAD about bromeliads as us? Then you're in luck!
Following the success of our previous special issues, we're pleased to announce a new one on Bromeliaceae Evolution & Systematics! Keep an eye on our socials as we share papers over the next few weeks 🌍 🧪 👇
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Following the success of our previous special issues, we're pleased to announce a new one on Bromeliaceae Evolution & Systematics! Keep an eye on our socials as we share papers over the next few weeks 🌍 🧪 👇
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Are you a PhD student ready to publish a paper? Submit your research to our journal today & enter one of our new journal prizes, celebrating PhD student work in #Botany! 🧪🌍👇
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September 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Are you a PhD student ready to publish a paper? Submit your research to our journal today & enter one of our new journal prizes, celebrating PhD student work in #Botany! 🧪🌍👇
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As a Learned Society, our journals provide vital income that funds our charitable endeavours and community engagement. By reviewing for us, you give back to our community and contribute to our mission of creating a world where nature is understood, valued, and protected. (2/2)
September 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
As a Learned Society, our journals provide vital income that funds our charitable endeavours and community engagement. By reviewing for us, you give back to our community and contribute to our mission of creating a world where nature is understood, valued, and protected. (2/2)
Stealthy herb Praxelis clematidea has spread globally from S America over the past 40 years, leading to a need for ecological niche modelling to understand its potential spread under #ClimateChange & offer insight into high-risk invasion areas! Read more below 🧪🌍
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July 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Stealthy herb Praxelis clematidea has spread globally from S America over the past 40 years, leading to a need for ecological niche modelling to understand its potential spread under #ClimateChange & offer insight into high-risk invasion areas! Read more below 🧪🌍
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When species exist in different habitats, reproductive barriers & divergence traits may emerge between populations. Here, 8 populations of the orchid Epidendrum fulgens were studied for compatibility & flower morphology, looking for potential reproductive barriers! What was found out? (1/2) 🌍🧪🧵
July 25, 2025 at 8:36 AM
When species exist in different habitats, reproductive barriers & divergence traits may emerge between populations. Here, 8 populations of the orchid Epidendrum fulgens were studied for compatibility & flower morphology, looking for potential reproductive barriers! What was found out? (1/2) 🌍🧪🧵
Bromeliads are one of the most diverse Neotropical flora, but why are they so diverse? Here, molecular phylogeny is used to understand this in 1268 taxa...revealing how geological & climatic events shaped their evolution! 🧪🌍👇
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July 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Bromeliads are one of the most diverse Neotropical flora, but why are they so diverse? Here, molecular phylogeny is used to understand this in 1268 taxa...revealing how geological & climatic events shaped their evolution! 🧪🌍👇
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My bromeli-bad for the lack of puns...
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Shrub birches are important components of vast wetlands in NE China, though despite this their taxonomy has remained ambiguous. Using morphological & molecular data, shrub birch populations were genotyped, revealing 2 distinct clades! Find out more 🌍🧪👇
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July 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Shrub birches are important components of vast wetlands in NE China, though despite this their taxonomy has remained ambiguous. Using morphological & molecular data, shrub birch populations were genotyped, revealing 2 distinct clades! Find out more 🌍🧪👇
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Did you know bees like smelly flowers? Research on an aquatic angiosperm Crinum campanulatum revealed a shift from nocturnal pollination by hawkmoths to diurnal pollination by bees, associated with smaller flowers and increased diurnal scent! Find out why below 🧪🌍👇
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July 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Did you know bees like smelly flowers? Research on an aquatic angiosperm Crinum campanulatum revealed a shift from nocturnal pollination by hawkmoths to diurnal pollination by bees, associated with smaller flowers and increased diurnal scent! Find out why below 🧪🌍👇
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Using photos of the plants to analyse leaf traits & minimal lab analysis, it was shown that stress states can be seen through colour differences across species & populations, a surprising outcome! What does this mean? (4/6)
July 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Using photos of the plants to analyse leaf traits & minimal lab analysis, it was shown that stress states can be seen through colour differences across species & populations, a surprising outcome! What does this mean? (4/6)
Use of Machine Learning can help detect salt stress in plants without the need of a lab! Here, Del Cioppo & co used "Decision Tree" models to examine salt stress in the common bean, but what did they find? (3/6)
July 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Use of Machine Learning can help detect salt stress in plants without the need of a lab! Here, Del Cioppo & co used "Decision Tree" models to examine salt stress in the common bean, but what did they find? (3/6)
#ClimateChange & rising sea levels are affecting soil salinity, impacting plant health & vital #EcosystemServices such as nutrient cycling. Effective monitoring is key to understand these changes...but how do we do this on a global scale? (2/6)
July 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
#ClimateChange & rising sea levels are affecting soil salinity, impacting plant health & vital #EcosystemServices such as nutrient cycling. Effective monitoring is key to understand these changes...but how do we do this on a global scale? (2/6)
Curious about angiosperms? Discover how scanning electron & light microscopy of leaf cuticular traits in Schinus & its relatives highlight the role of cuticular morphology in resolving genera (Euroschinus, Mauria & Schinus), but not intrageneric sections of Schinus! 🌍🧪👇
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May 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Curious about angiosperms? Discover how scanning electron & light microscopy of leaf cuticular traits in Schinus & its relatives highlight the role of cuticular morphology in resolving genera (Euroschinus, Mauria & Schinus), but not intrageneric sections of Schinus! 🌍🧪👇
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Unclear boundaries between genera of the Spermacoce clade pose a taxonomic challenge. Here, use of phylogenetic analyses reveal Psyllocarpus as non-monophyletic, redefining it as a distinct, diagnosable genus! 🧪🌍👇
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May 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Unclear boundaries between genera of the Spermacoce clade pose a taxonomic challenge. Here, use of phylogenetic analyses reveal Psyllocarpus as non-monophyletic, redefining it as a distinct, diagnosable genus! 🧪🌍👇
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Taxonomic limits across Diervilla, an endemic genus of bush-honeysuckle in eastern North America, are puzzling due to their high morphological variation. Here, integrative taxonomy was used to uncover genetic, morphological & geographical distinctions among the 3 species! 🧪
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May 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Taxonomic limits across Diervilla, an endemic genus of bush-honeysuckle in eastern North America, are puzzling due to their high morphological variation. Here, integrative taxonomy was used to uncover genetic, morphological & geographical distinctions among the 3 species! 🧪
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The Kamchatka rhododendron is a small cold-resistant shrub with a wide distribution & controversial taxonomy. Here, plastid DNA of 2 populations revealed genetic lineages consistent with separate (not sub-) species & unique migration pathways from West-East Beringia! 👇🌍🌿🧪
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March 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The Kamchatka rhododendron is a small cold-resistant shrub with a wide distribution & controversial taxonomy. Here, plastid DNA of 2 populations revealed genetic lineages consistent with separate (not sub-) species & unique migration pathways from West-East Beringia! 👇🌍🌿🧪
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The byrsonimoids include ~152 species of native tree & shrub to the Neotropics, with Byrsonima the most well-known of its 3 genera. Yet, here is the first time the evolution of their wood & bark traits have been studied!
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March 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The byrsonimoids include ~152 species of native tree & shrub to the Neotropics, with Byrsonima the most well-known of its 3 genera. Yet, here is the first time the evolution of their wood & bark traits have been studied!
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Vellozia, one of the most diverse & abundant genus' within the Campos Rupestres, shows incredible levels of endemism. Here, past climate change was used to investigate the modern-day range of this iconic genus! A 🧵(1/3)
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March 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Vellozia, one of the most diverse & abundant genus' within the Campos Rupestres, shows incredible levels of endemism. Here, past climate change was used to investigate the modern-day range of this iconic genus! A 🧵(1/3)
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The genetic structure & gene flow patterns were investigated, taking into account the effect of habitat fragmentation. It found low genetic differentiation across its entire distribution, but fragmentation didn't appear to have any effect! Why? Find out below 👇(2/2)
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January 28, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The genetic structure & gene flow patterns were investigated, taking into account the effect of habitat fragmentation. It found low genetic differentiation across its entire distribution, but fragmentation didn't appear to have any effect! Why? Find out below 👇(2/2)
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Species declines threaten #Endemic species in particular, so understanding their reproductive biology is crucial. Here, Santolina ligustica, a narrow ranged subshrub (say that 3 times fast) from NW Italy was assessed...but what did it find? A (short) 🧵...(1/2)
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January 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Species declines threaten #Endemic species in particular, so understanding their reproductive biology is crucial. Here, Santolina ligustica, a narrow ranged subshrub (say that 3 times fast) from NW Italy was assessed...but what did it find? A (short) 🧵...(1/2)
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The 'Cirrhopetalum alliance' sounds threatening, but it's just a monophyletic group of orchids! Here, the floral morphology, scent, anatomy & VOCs of Bulbophyllum species are analysed to consider #Evolutionary adaptations in the alliance 👇🧪🌍🌿
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January 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The 'Cirrhopetalum alliance' sounds threatening, but it's just a monophyletic group of orchids! Here, the floral morphology, scent, anatomy & VOCs of Bulbophyllum species are analysed to consider #Evolutionary adaptations in the alliance 👇🧪🌍🌿
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