Small herbarium specimens are likely to be unduplicated elsewhere, or found only in other small herbaria.
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Erin Zimmerman
State of the World’s Plant & Fungi Collections (Part One)
Plant and fungal collections are seeing new and innovative uses, as well as reaching a broader user-base as digitized specimens, but significant gaps remain.
Symposium looks at new frontiers in collecting & collections
Collections may be poised for a “renaissance of biodiversity specimen collecting.”
Citizen science data can complement collections well for some applications
The range and occurrence of anther smut shows very similar patterns in both collections and iNaturalist data.
On the origin of orphan hybrids between Aquilegia formosa and Aquilegia flavescens
The outcomes of natural hybridization are incredibly varied, ranging from hybrid speciation to extinction of parental taxa. Orphan hybrid populations or lineages are those that occur in the absence of the parental taxa...
William Salter
Introducing The Global Flora
At Cuttings HQ we love a new botany journal – even if it’s technically described as a serial. So, we were really pleased to find out about The Global Flora, whose first issue was launched in January 2018. Published by...
Nigel Chaffey
Museomics reveal phylogeny of endangered Malagasy grasses
Poaceae is one of the most diverse families in Madagascar, but some lineages have not yet been assessed within a phylogenetic framework. This study focused on the threatened taxa of Chasechloa, historically associated...
botanyone
Forensic botany collection
I don’t know what the rest of the world’s TV is like but the USA and the UK– and Denmark– seem obsessed with crime dramas, especially those that explore the role of forensics in catching wrong-doers. To that end there...
