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Michal Hroneš @thismialab.bsky.social · 8d

This is just beautiful and obscure at the same time!

Michal Hroneš @thismialab.bsky.social · 8d

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.

Plants, People, Planet @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social · 13d

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.

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Carlos M Herrera @cmhmaliani.bsky.social · 13d

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

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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 13d

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.

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Edinburgh Journal of Botany @ejbotany.bsky.social · Sep 25

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

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viep5.bsky.social @viep5.bsky.social · Sep 6

Thismia mirabilis K. Larsen
Khao Yai National Park, Thailand 🇹🇭

#botany #plants #mycoheterotrophic #Thismiaceae #Thismia #fairylantern

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Michal Hroneš @thismialab.bsky.social · Sep 3

Observation by my student Věra Kafková is an #observationoftheday on @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.

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Edinburgh Journal of Botany @ejbotany.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

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Preslia @preslia.cz · Aug 29

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

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Michal Hroneš @thismialab.bsky.social · Aug 19

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

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PhytoKeys @phytokeys.pensoft.net · Aug 13

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...

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Michal Hroneš @thismialab.bsky.social · Aug 13

According to our colleagues, it flowers in January. So not really good time now. I can ask them to put the flowers in spirit once they appear if you wish.

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Michal Hroneš @thismialab.bsky.social · Aug 12

The flora of Brunei is extremely rich but there is only very few observations of plants when compared e.g. with Singapore. Also the AI ID tool is not working well. We want to change it with the involvment of #UBD students and nature lovers from Brunei.

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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

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Michal Hroneš @thismialab.bsky.social · Aug 12

Doesn't really look the same to me. How about the leaf coloration pattern? I've seen this one last week in Brunei.

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YeeWen Low (刘逸汶) @yeewenlow.bsky.social · Aug 12

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 🤔

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Michal Hroneš @thismialab.bsky.social · Jul 30

This is the link to our paper describing the discovery in #Brunei👇🏻

doi.org/10.11646/phy...

First record of Gastrodia (Orchidaceae, Epidendroideae) from Brunei Darussalam | Phytotaxa

doi.org

Michal Hroneš @thismialab.bsky.social · Jul 30

#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.

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Tim Boeh @timboeh.bsky.social · Jul 30

🌱 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.

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Michal Hroneš @thismialab.bsky.social · Jul 25

Tacca cristata from Penang, Malaysia. Endemic to Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore.

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Michal Hroneš @thismialab.bsky.social · Jul 23

We teamed up with Siti Munirah from FRIM Kepong to find #Thismia in #Penang island, Malaysia. And we found it!
#taxonomy #undescribed #newspecies

Small yellow flower of Thismia with three tepals with long appendage and three tepals with short appendage.

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Michal Hroneš @thismialab.bsky.social · Jul 23

We teamed up with Siti Munirah from FRIM Kepong to find #Thismia in #Penang island, Malaysia. And we found it!
#taxonomy #undescribed #newspecies

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Michal Hroneš @thismialab.bsky.social · Jul 22

One fieldwork ended, the second is just starting😍

View on the Georgetown above the tropical forest with Araucaria

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Botanospol - Czech Botanical Society @botanospol.bsky.social · Jul 17

1/3 Letošní konference ČBS proběhne v Praze v termínu 22. 11. – 23. 11. 2025, a sice na téma "Český botanický výzkum v zahraničí". Byl prodloužen termín pro příhlášení příspěvků, přednášek a posterů, a to do 31. 8. Máte-li tedy možnost a chuť prezentovat svůj zahraniční botanický výzkum, neváhejte.

Ilustrační obrázek: konference ČBS 2023, pohled do přednáškového sálu, foto: V. Zeisek

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Michal Hroneš @thismialab.bsky.social · Jul 17

I'm having a proud supervisor moment as the Czech media currently sharing results of bachelor thesis on adventive flora of Olomouc city by Věra Kafková.
#botany #Czechia #neophytes

iROZHLAS.cz @irozhlas.cz · Jul 15

Celkem 19 druhů rostlin dosud nezaznamenaných v ČR objevila při průzkumu širšího centra Olomouce studentka Přírodovědecké fakulty Univerzity Palackého Věra Kafková. Ulice města systematicky mapovala dva roky.

Objev tak velkého počtu nových druhů je podle odborníků výjimečný. irozhl.as/whC

Výjimečný objev studentky. V Olomouci vyhledala 19 druhů rostlin dosud nezaznamenaných v Česku

Mezi její nejvýznamnější objevy patří tráva milička (Eragrostis virescens), původem z Ameriky, která je jedním z nových druhů na území Česka.

irozhl.as

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