Sonia Molino
@soniamolino.bsky.social
PhD. Fern systematics focused on the family Blechnaceae. Postdoc at @iicg-urjc.bsky.social, teacher at UEM. Board member of @sebot.bsky.social & @JovenesBotanica.bsky.social. She/her. #ImaBotanist
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El #SEBOT2025 me deja con una responsabilidad que asumo con muchísimo cariño: la presidencia de @jovenesbotanica.bsky.social
No sé cómo agradeceros, @miquelcapo.bsky.social y @adriangr.bsky.social, vuestros años en la junta de este sueño tan bonito. Espero hacerlo la mitad de bien que vosotros 💚
No sé cómo agradeceros, @miquelcapo.bsky.social y @adriangr.bsky.social, vuestros años en la junta de este sueño tan bonito. Espero hacerlo la mitad de bien que vosotros 💚
September 26, 2025 at 7:34 AM
El #SEBOT2025 me deja con una responsabilidad que asumo con muchísimo cariño: la presidencia de @jovenesbotanica.bsky.social
No sé cómo agradeceros, @miquelcapo.bsky.social y @adriangr.bsky.social, vuestros años en la junta de este sueño tan bonito. Espero hacerlo la mitad de bien que vosotros 💚
No sé cómo agradeceros, @miquelcapo.bsky.social y @adriangr.bsky.social, vuestros años en la junta de este sueño tan bonito. Espero hacerlo la mitad de bien que vosotros 💚
Un placer también hacer el taller de Nomenclatura Botánica con Iris Muñoz. Un espacio de debate interesantísimo para seguir aprendiendo está disciplina tan difícil y fascinante
¡El jolgorio nomenclatural fue tal que se nos olvidó hacernos una foto!
#SEBOT2025
@sebot.bsky.social
¡El jolgorio nomenclatural fue tal que se nos olvidó hacernos una foto!
#SEBOT2025
@sebot.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Un placer también hacer el taller de Nomenclatura Botánica con Iris Muñoz. Un espacio de debate interesantísimo para seguir aprendiendo está disciplina tan difícil y fascinante
¡El jolgorio nomenclatural fue tal que se nos olvidó hacernos una foto!
#SEBOT2025
@sebot.bsky.social
¡El jolgorio nomenclatural fue tal que se nos olvidó hacernos una foto!
#SEBOT2025
@sebot.bsky.social
Un lujo impartir ayer el taller de iNaturalist: oportunidades para la investigación, gestión y docencia en el #SEBOT2025 con mis compis @adriangr.bsky.social y Eduard López. Seguimos encontranfo maneras de sacarle el mayor partido a estas herramientas 💪🏻 @sebot.bsky.social @inaturalist.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Un lujo impartir ayer el taller de iNaturalist: oportunidades para la investigación, gestión y docencia en el #SEBOT2025 con mis compis @adriangr.bsky.social y Eduard López. Seguimos encontranfo maneras de sacarle el mayor partido a estas herramientas 💪🏻 @sebot.bsky.social @inaturalist.bsky.social
La observación tuvo lugar en el río Manzanares en abril de 2025, en la zona de El Pardo (Mingorrubio), a orillas de la conocida “Senda Fluvial”.
Durante varios días registramos señales inequívocas:
🪵 Ramas roídas.
🦷 Marcas de incisivos.
🚶♂️ Sendas hacia el agua.
Durante varios días registramos señales inequívocas:
🪵 Ramas roídas.
🦷 Marcas de incisivos.
🚶♂️ Sendas hacia el agua.
June 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
La observación tuvo lugar en el río Manzanares en abril de 2025, en la zona de El Pardo (Mingorrubio), a orillas de la conocida “Senda Fluvial”.
Durante varios días registramos señales inequívocas:
🪵 Ramas roídas.
🦷 Marcas de incisivos.
🚶♂️ Sendas hacia el agua.
Durante varios días registramos señales inequívocas:
🪵 Ramas roídas.
🦷 Marcas de incisivos.
🚶♂️ Sendas hacia el agua.
This new perspective challenges the idea that these islands are biologically poor, positioning them as key elements for understanding global biodiversity patterns.
Urgent conservation is needed due to climate change and invasive species.
#SubAntarctic #Evolution #Biodiversity
Urgent conservation is needed due to climate change and invasive species.
#SubAntarctic #Evolution #Biodiversity
April 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
This new perspective challenges the idea that these islands are biologically poor, positioning them as key elements for understanding global biodiversity patterns.
Urgent conservation is needed due to climate change and invasive species.
#SubAntarctic #Evolution #Biodiversity
Urgent conservation is needed due to climate change and invasive species.
#SubAntarctic #Evolution #Biodiversity
🔬Some of my colleagues conducted fieldwork on some of the most remote islands on Earth, traveling aboard an icebreaker 🚢 and facing fieldwork in some of the most inhospitable ❄️ and least-known areas on the planet.
I am very jealous of my colleagues who were able to live this experience!
I am very jealous of my colleagues who were able to live this experience!
April 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🔬Some of my colleagues conducted fieldwork on some of the most remote islands on Earth, traveling aboard an icebreaker 🚢 and facing fieldwork in some of the most inhospitable ❄️ and least-known areas on the planet.
I am very jealous of my colleagues who were able to live this experience!
I am very jealous of my colleagues who were able to live this experience!
🌱 Despite their isolation, these remote islands exhibit surprising biological connectivity with South America, Australia & New Zealand—while also have served as glacial refuges and hotspots of evolutionary innovation.
April 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🌱 Despite their isolation, these remote islands exhibit surprising biological connectivity with South America, Australia & New Zealand—while also have served as glacial refuges and hotspots of evolutionary innovation.
New study out!
Tracing the biogeographic history of the world's most isolated insular floras 🌿🌍
Plant colonization in the sub-Antarctic was driven by long-distance dispersal—wind, birds, and ocean currents—rather than by ancient continental drift.
🔗 www.jse.ac.cn/EN/10.1111/j...
Tracing the biogeographic history of the world's most isolated insular floras 🌿🌍
Plant colonization in the sub-Antarctic was driven by long-distance dispersal—wind, birds, and ocean currents—rather than by ancient continental drift.
🔗 www.jse.ac.cn/EN/10.1111/j...
April 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
New study out!
Tracing the biogeographic history of the world's most isolated insular floras 🌿🌍
Plant colonization in the sub-Antarctic was driven by long-distance dispersal—wind, birds, and ocean currents—rather than by ancient continental drift.
🔗 www.jse.ac.cn/EN/10.1111/j...
Tracing the biogeographic history of the world's most isolated insular floras 🌿🌍
Plant colonization in the sub-Antarctic was driven by long-distance dispersal—wind, birds, and ocean currents—rather than by ancient continental drift.
🔗 www.jse.ac.cn/EN/10.1111/j...
¿Cómo reconocerla? Sus hojas flotantes tienen pelos en la superficie superior. A diferencia de especies similares como S. molesta, los pelos de S. minima NO están unidos en sus puntas. 🔬👀
February 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
¿Cómo reconocerla? Sus hojas flotantes tienen pelos en la superficie superior. A diferencia de especies similares como S. molesta, los pelos de S. minima NO están unidos en sus puntas. 🔬👀
S. minima es un helecho flotante nativo de América que ha sido detectado en algunos lugares de Europa. Ahora se ha encontrado en el río Besòs (Barcelona) y en una muestra antigua del Delta del Ebro.
February 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
S. minima es un helecho flotante nativo de América que ha sido detectado en algunos lugares de Europa. Ahora se ha encontrado en el río Besòs (Barcelona) y en una muestra antigua del Delta del Ebro.
Describing a species is a long and arduousprocess, so it's been in progress for a long time, before my appearance in La Revuelta, so I couldn't dedicate this one to them this time, I'm sorry!
February 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Describing a species is a long and arduousprocess, so it's been in progress for a long time, before my appearance in La Revuelta, so I couldn't dedicate this one to them this time, I'm sorry!
So finally, we described these specimens as a new species. It grows on sandstone cliffs along small rivers and can be distinguished by its fertile fronds, which are shorter than its sterile ones, and its densely scaly rachis. This is the beautiful illustration drawn by Deli Heal.
February 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
So finally, we described these specimens as a new species. It grows on sandstone cliffs along small rivers and can be distinguished by its fertile fronds, which are shorter than its sterile ones, and its densely scaly rachis. This is the beautiful illustration drawn by Deli Heal.
The Cordillera del Condor is a little explored and very interesting area, with a unique geology, similar to that of the Venezuelan Tepuis, which has already led to the description of many new species and even genera!
February 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The Cordillera del Condor is a little explored and very interesting area, with a unique geology, similar to that of the Venezuelan Tepuis, which has already led to the description of many new species and even genera!
This work comes thanks to the exhaustive review of specimens of the genus that we have carried out in herbaria such as F, MO, QCNE or US. There we found some specimens from Cordillera del Condor, Ecuador, that we could not ascribe to any known species of Parablechnum.
February 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This work comes thanks to the exhaustive review of specimens of the genus that we have carried out in herbaria such as F, MO, QCNE or US. There we found some specimens from Cordillera del Condor, Ecuador, that we could not ascribe to any known species of Parablechnum.
After these two publications we continued to make some new discoveries, for example we saw that spores and sporangia were a very good character to differentiate both groups and we published this paper 👉🏻 t.co/WbpS5UiY8u
December 13, 2024 at 8:53 PM
After these two publications we continued to make some new discoveries, for example we saw that spores and sporangia were a very good character to differentiate both groups and we published this paper 👉🏻 t.co/WbpS5UiY8u
What we did was to resurrect that genus, to date that phylogeny and reconstruct the biogeographic history of Struthiopteris and Spicantopsis together with their two sister genera Blechnidium and Brainea. You can consult it in this article 👉🏻 t.co/C9doF9PBPf
December 13, 2024 at 8:53 PM
What we did was to resurrect that genus, to date that phylogeny and reconstruct the biogeographic history of Struthiopteris and Spicantopsis together with their two sister genera Blechnidium and Brainea. You can consult it in this article 👉🏻 t.co/C9doF9PBPf
And not only this, it also held up very well morphologically because there were several characters that also divided these species into these same two groups.
December 13, 2024 at 8:53 PM
And not only this, it also held up very well morphologically because there were several characters that also divided these species into these same two groups.
What we observed is that these six species did not form a monophyletic group, but were divided into two groups, one clade with S. spicant, S. fallax and S. castanea (Japan) and another with S. amabilis, S. niponica (Japan) and S. hancockii (Taiwan).
December 13, 2024 at 8:53 PM
What we observed is that these six species did not form a monophyletic group, but were divided into two groups, one clade with S. spicant, S. fallax and S. castanea (Japan) and another with S. amabilis, S. niponica (Japan) and S. hancockii (Taiwan).
We also described a new variety, S. spicant var. pradae, dedicated to our teacher and friend Carmen Prada, incredible pteridologist who inspired us all.
December 13, 2024 at 8:53 PM
We also described a new variety, S. spicant var. pradae, dedicated to our teacher and friend Carmen Prada, incredible pteridologist who inspired us all.
The first thing we did was to study this variability at both morphoanatomical and molecular levels. With this we ended up separating a species that was previously considered a variety, S. fallax, endemic to a hot spring in Iceland.
December 13, 2024 at 8:53 PM
The first thing we did was to study this variability at both morphoanatomical and molecular levels. With this we ended up separating a species that was previously considered a variety, S. fallax, endemic to a hot spring in Iceland.
This fern is one of the two Blechnaceae that you can find in my country, it occurs in Europe, Macaronesia, North Africa and western North America, and has a great phenotypic variability. And also it is super beautiful.
December 13, 2024 at 8:53 PM
This fern is one of the two Blechnaceae that you can find in my country, it occurs in Europe, Macaronesia, North Africa and western North America, and has a great phenotypic variability. And also it is super beautiful.
El próximo sábado día 30 no os podéis perder las Jornadas de Naturaleza en la Sierra Norte de Madrid en Buitrago del Lozoya. Habrá un montón de charlas chulísimas y yo tendré el placer de hablar un ratito de helechos ¡Os esperamos!
November 23, 2024 at 12:54 PM
El próximo sábado día 30 no os podéis perder las Jornadas de Naturaleza en la Sierra Norte de Madrid en Buitrago del Lozoya. Habrá un montón de charlas chulísimas y yo tendré el placer de hablar un ratito de helechos ¡Os esperamos!