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Featured: Euphorbiaceae Cavacoa aurea (Cavaco) J. Léonard

Featured plants

Pitcairnia lanuginosa Ruiz & Pav.

SPECIES

Bromeliaceae Pitcairnia lanuginosa Ruiz & Pav.

Collinsia linearis A.Gray

SPECIES

Plantaginaceae Collinsia linearis A.Gray

Micromelum Blume

SPECIES

Rutaceae Micromelum Blume

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

Resolving taxonomic uncertainty and exploring evolutionary relationships in the Cymopterus terebinthinus (Apiaceae) species complex

Annie Taylor, Donald H. Mansfield, Sven Buerki et al.

2025

TAXON

Differences in functional traits and drought tolerance between heteromorphic leaves of Artemisia tridentata seedlings, a keystone species from a semiarid shrubland

Marcelo Serpe, Jacob Venable, Sven Buerki

2025

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