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Featured: Sapotaceae Sarcaulus brasiliensis (A.DC.) Eyma

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Parodia warasii (F.Ritter) F.H.Brandt

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Cactaceae Parodia warasii (F.Ritter) F.H.Brandt

Tetranema gamboanum Grayum & Hammel

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Plantaginaceae Tetranema gamboanum Grayum & Hammel

Sedum rubens L.

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Crassulaceae Sedum rubens L.

Recent Publications

Exploring sagebrush leaf microbial metagenomes from deep, host-derived sequencing

Adedotun Adedayo Arogundade, Carlos Dave C. Dumaguit, Anthony E. Melton et al.

2026

Microbiology Spectrum

Integrative species delimitation methods infer species boundaries in the Lomatium foeniculaceum complex and indicate an evolutionary history from the Southwest towards the Northeast in western North America

Daniel E. Botello, Donald H. Mansfield, Sven Buerki et al.

2025

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

A piece of the Piper puzzle: Systematics of Piper section Enckea, a Neotropical section in a giant genus

Cara Hastings, Emma Casselman, Christopher Davidson et al.

2024

Systematic Botany