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Featured: Orchidaceae Cypripedium calceolus L.

Featured plants

Brassicaceae Boechera holboellii retrofracta (Hornem.) Á. Löve & D. Löve

SPECIES

Brassicaceae Boechera holboellii (Hornem.) Á. Löve & D. Löve

Piper ridleyi C.DC.

SPECIES

Piperaceae Piper ridleyi C.DC.

Castanea pumila (L.) Mill.

SPECIES

Fagaceae Castanea pumila (L.) Mill.

Recent Publications

Phylogenomic insights and recircumscription of the perennial endemic North American clade of Apiaceae (Apioideae, Selineae)

Phebian Odufuwa, Donald H. Mansfield, Mary Ann E. Feist et al.

2025

TAXON

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

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