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Featured: Peraceae Clutia pulchella L.

Featured plants

Simarouba amara Aubl.

SPECIES

Simaroubaceae Simarouba amara Aubl.

Veronica arvensis L.

SPECIES

Plantaginaceae Veronica arvensis L.

Machaeranthera tanacetifolia (Kunth) Nees

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Asteraceae Machaeranthera tanacetifolia (Kunth) Nees

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

High risk of extinction across the flowering plant tree of life

Félix Forest, Ruth Brown, Sven Buerki et al.

2026

Science

A single widespread species or multiple narrow endemics: a search for boundaries within the Piper amalago complex (Piperaceae)

James F. Smith, Cara Hastings, Christopher Davidson et al.

2026

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution