Michal Hroneš

Here they are: first Fritillaria meleagris are flowering 💐

#wildflowers #botany

Pulsatilla grandis, one of the early bloomers in dry grassland habitats in northern Pannonia

Nice overview of #Gagea bohemica by @milanchytry.bsky.social Just want to add that our ongoing reasearch indicates that this particular type with wide tepals and almost glabrous stems is probably endemic to Bohemia and northern part of Pannonia.
You can read more here doi.org/10.1007/s006...

Our paper on evolution of sexual vs. apomictic genotypes in Rubus ser. Glandulosi is now free to read @annbot.bsky.social

Monotropa callistoma is a newly discovered ghost plant from China that doesn’t need sunlight to grow!

Curious to find out more? Read on here: doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.271.177609

Today, we bring you the largest wild orchid you can find in Portugal, Barlia robertiana, photographed in a meadow in Lordemão and Souselas 🌿

A remarkable Mediterranean species, standing out for its size and dense inflorescences.

So many interesting studies on #Monocots @phytokeys.pensoft.net lately😍 Here is the digest👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

In Europe, only a few N American asters (Symphyotrichum) are naturalised or cultivated, with some exhibiting invasive behaviour & others misidentified. How do we fix this? Understanding their cytogeography (distribution of gene complexes), as done here along the Danube...🧪🌍
doi.org/10.1093/botl...

Some winter flowers in @botanickazahradauk.bsky.social
#Hamamelidaceae #Prague #Czechia

PhD on Begonia speciation at RBGE/Glasgow! Looking at the genomics of reproductive isolation and how fast it evolves - is it the reason this is one of the largest genera of flowering plants?
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Fig. 1 Inflorescences of Dactylanthus taylorii (upper panel), Hachettea austrocaledonica (lower left), and Mystropetalon thomii (lower right).

Evidence for plastome loss in the holoparasitic Mystropetalaceae

A #Letter by Yu et al. 👇

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#LatestIssue #PlantScience

The evolutionary mysteries of a rare parasitic plant New study maps the strange genomes of Asia-Pacific Balanophora species, giving new insights into the evolution of parasitic plants and an unconventional role of plastids.

The rare, mushroom-like Balanophora plant surprises researchers with their genetic makeup and unconventional role of plastids in biosynthesis, despite being entirely parasitic of a select few trees. New study in @newphyt.bsky.social 👇 www.oist.jp/news-center/...

🌿 Coming soon: Preslia 97(4)! Three new papers shed light on biodiversity loss, plant evolution and overlooked drivers of plant invasions:
🔹 Pannonian sand grasslands lose specialists due to succession and eutrophication

New critically endangered ‘fairy lantern’ discovered in Malaysia Just 20 individuals of the unusual species are known to exist in the wild.

Researchers in Malaysia have discovered an incredible new endemic ‘fairy lantern’ species with fewer than 20 individuals known to exist in the wild.

🔗 Learn all about it on the @pensoft.net blog: blog.pensoft.net/2025/12/02/n...

Illustration showing a person examining a plant with text about the scarcity of plant taxonomists worldwide.

Plant taxonomy is disappearing - and so is our ability to protect species 🍂

Nearly half of countries have fewer than 10 plant taxonomists. Kew is working to close the gap, but we need more experts fast.

Read the study’s key findings and what we're doing about it 👇
https://ow.ly/XhJo50XyGAa

Orchis anatolica sharing space with Muscaris & Ornithogalums.

Taken during one of the @Greenwings #orchid tours.

#RhodesOrchidOdyssey #OrchidsOfRhodes #BotanicalTour

This is simply a geophyte pleasure!

New #Thismia description just dropped in @phytokeys.pensoft.net
Please welcome Thismia selangorensis, a beautiful new mitriform species described by Siti Munirah from vicinity of Kuala Lumpur #Malaysia

doi.org/10.3897/phyt...

Pěkné čtení k odpolední kávě. A nebo radši k misce kari?🫚🍜😁

1/2 Konference ČBS proběhne již přespříští víkend. A to na téma "Český výzkum v zahraničí". Těšit se můžete na příspěvky z celého světa. Přihlašování je možné do 16. 11.

IJPS cover in yellow with a cartoon phylogeny of the asparagales and liliales and the title of the primer

JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social

Primers in the Plant Sciences: Tracing the history of angiosperm systematics through Liliales and Asparagales

@astragaler.bsky.social‬, @wile-phylote.bsky.social‬, @tribblelab.bsky.social

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

#PlantScience

This is just beautiful and obscure at the same time!

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.

Una mosca de colores negro y amarillo posada en una flor lila

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

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.

Orobanche cooperi is another holoparasitic Orobanchaceae from southwestern North America. Isn’t it fantastic? A bad-ass beauty! #parasite #Orobanchaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

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