A one-size-fits-all estimate of leaf area has drawbacks if not all your leaves are the same shape.
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It’s the hostile habitat that keeps these Carex plants together as a species.
Continue reading Carex angustisquama‘s extreme life style keeps it a distinct species
A chimp’s diet can be studied through microscopic opals.
Continue reading Studying plant remains at the entrance and the exit of a chimpanzee
Isolation and sexual adaptability contributed to the evolution of thousands of palm species.
Continue reading Tropical islands lead to more diversity in Palm sexual reproduction
Jin et al. use molecular analyses and morphological examination to understand the evolutionary divergence and establishment patterns of a Korean endemic shrub.
Continue reading Historical migration and taxonomy of the Korean endemic shrub Lespedeza maritima
Botanists find petal colour can signal a monkeyflower’s drought tolerance.
Continue reading Pink monkeyflowers are a sign of local adaptation
The fossils highlight the importance of West Gondwana in the evolution of Cunoniaceae.
Continue reading Newly discovered fossils illuminate a family’s 64 million year development
Taking a look inside these botanical rebels offers new information to better understand them.
Continue reading Parasitic plants and other botanical “misfits”
The study combines genetic and physical data to define four groups of hazel plants.
Continue reading Species delimitation and hybridization history of a hazel species complex
Leptosporangiate ferns have three times more cryptochrome receptors than their nearest relatives.
Continue reading Extra blue-light receptors helped ferns thrive in early angiosperm forests
Sorbus is a highly diverse tree genus but is this the result of hybridisation and introgression between native and foreign species?
Continue reading Hybridisation of native and foreign Sorbus trees in the Polish Carpathian mountains
Herbaria are an under-used resource for large phylogenies.
Continue reading A new high-throughput method for building large phylogenies from herbarium samples
Is hybridization a significant driver of plant speciation and endemism in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau?
Continue reading Gentiana hoae, a new alpine species on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
Can the seed dormancy class of Narcissus yepesii explain the different dormancy levels seen in two closely related phylogenetic congeners?
Continue reading Seed dormancy of the threatened Spanish daffodil Narcissus yepesiiBotany One is a blog run by the Annals of Botany Company, a non-profit educational charity.
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