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Featured: Solanaceae Solanum campylacanthum Hochst. ex A.Rich.

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Tillandsia streptocarpa Baker

SPECIES

Bromeliaceae Tillandsia streptocarpa Baker

Lobivia bridgesii subsp. bridgesii

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Cactaceae Lobivia bridgesii

Oreopanax capitatus (Jacq.) Decne. & Planch.

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Araliaceae Oreopanax capitatus (Jacq.) Decne. & Planch.

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

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