Fruit of Medicago polymorpha (burr medic). The beauty of the small: a tiny spiral designed to hitchhike on passing animals (including us) and disperse its seeds. 🌿🌱🧪
#medicagopolymorpha #PlantMorphology #PlantDispersal #DiversidadeVegetal #BotanyIsNotDead
OMG 🌿🧪
@cienciasulisboa.bsky.social
Investigador português descobre espécie de planta que só existe em Almada
https://www.europesays.com/pt/241003/
Intitulada Linaria almadensis, a planta foi colhida pela primeira vez em 1843, mas só agora, no âmbito de…
Nova espécie descrita em Portugal: Linaria almadensis — endémica das arribas do Gargalo do Tejo (Almada). Apesar de conhecida desde 1843, foi só agora reconhecida como espécie distinta por João Farminhão.
#Botânica #Biodiversidade #Conservação
Nova espécie para a Flora de Portugal!
Foi recentemente assinalada em #Portugal a presença de Teucrium aristatum, uma pequena planta anual rara que até agora só era conhecida de poucos locais em Espanha e França, e que é considerada ameaçada a nível global.
🌿🍃🪷
www.huh.harvard.edu/sites/g/file...
Harvard Papers in Botany 📷 Udo Schwarzer
See the species featured also in flora-on.pt .
We talked about the #flora of #Portugal, the @spbotanica.bsky.social and flora-on.pt
And even about Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, one of the reasons I became a biologist.
May there be many more. 🌿✨
Yesterday I left with a full heart and recharged batteries after the senior course “Understanding the World in the 21st Century” at the Lisbon University
We discussed the #biodiversitycrisis and #citizenscience, not only as a powerful source of data, but also as a way of (re)connecting with nature.
It wasn’t in flower yet, but it’s beautiful all the same!!
flora-on.pt#1Astragalus+... (via Flora-On) #botanyisnotdad #longlivebotany
Last Monday I found a marvelous #astragalus species, Astragalus tragacantha L., near Cabo de Sagres. This small shrub with a Med. distribution that, in mainland Portugal, occurs only in a restricted area of the SW Algarve coast, on calcareous sea cliffs. #botany #portugal #flora 🌱🌿🪷
Spring is coming…
Scilla monophyllos , Romulea ramiflora, Ophrys fusca, Himantoglossum robertianum, Bellis sylvestris,
Gennaria diphylla
#botanyisnotdead #orchids #longlivebotany 🌱🌼
International day of women and girls in Science 🧬
#11F #Woman #STEM
A Câmara de Coimbra retira entre 2800 a 3000 pessoas das suas casas face a risco de cheia no Mondego.
Leia mais: www.publico.pt/2164367
@clarahurricane.bsky.social ha hecho en @elconfidencial.bsky.social un estupendo artículo sobre los problemas asociados a que los gatos vivan en, o accedan al, exterior. Para la fauna, para la gente y para los propios gatos.
Un placer haber participado
El enlace, abalo
This extraordinarily rainy winter in the Iberian Peninsula has Umbilicus rupestris popping up everywhere, including the cracks in these concrete stairs in #Lisbon🌧️🌱
#navelwort, #penny-pies #wallpennywort #botany #urbanbotany #concrete #umbilicusrupestris
We published a Teaching Tools on Genomic Analysis of Botanical Collections, including Lectures Notes, a teaching presentation (college level) and activities for a flipped classroom approach. Feel free to use it in your courses! Translations to other languages coming up soon! #PlantScience #Teaching
A Bombus terrestris queen feeding on the orchid Himantoglossum robertianum in my backyard 😍
🧪🌱 🐝
#Himantoglossum #Pollination #Pollinators #botany #Orchid
#Bee #Bumblebee #Bombus
A tiny hunter at work 🐦🐛!
From pest control to biodiversity support in , birds like the Sardinian warbler quietly provide vital ecosystem services, even in our backyards 🌱
No chemicals needed!
🧪 #ecology #birds #ecosystemservices #currucamelanochephala #lisbon #portugal
The article officially confirming the presence of the species in Portugal can be consulted here:
revistas.uma.es/index.php/ab...
The species was discovered by João Neiva & Duarte Frade in Tavira, in the Algarve, where it occurs on clay soils that are temporarily flooded. It can be easily distinguished from all other Teucrium species in Portugal as it is the only annual species with bluish-violet flowers and aristate calyces.
New species for the Flora of Portugal!
The presence of Teucrium aristatum has recently been recorded in #Portugal. This small, rare annual plant was previously known only from a few locations in Spain and France and is considered globally threatened. 🌱
Around 500,000 people have been affected in #mozambique. Disease, malnutrition, and the uncontrolled escape of crocodiles are alarming the humanitarian community. @unicef.org warns of an imminent “dual crisis” as the annual cyclone season approaches.
news.un.org/pt/story/202...
Joshua trees (Asparagaceae: Yucca brevifolia) are endemic to the Mojave Desert of southern California and Nevada, as well as northwest Arizona. They're probably the most-recognizable species of yucca. Joshua Tree National Park, California, 10 Apr 2018.
Thousands of scientists inflate their CVs with self-published studies that cost millions of euros in public money
elpais.com/ciencia/2026...
Há mais um golfinho-roaz a nadar no Sado: chama-se Bravo
Leia mais: www.publico.pt/2161772
A new #toadflax endemic to to the Tagus mouth cliffs, opposite #Lisbon #Portugal ! 🌿
Emigrantes queixam-se da distância para ir votar: “Não há amor à pátria que aguente” www.publico.pt/2026/01/17/p...
