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Maura C. Flannery @flannerm.bsky.social

@flannerm

Prof Emerita of Biology, St. John's U; Res Affiliate, U of South Carolina herbarium; author In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting Plants, Yale Press

 Aiken, South Carolina
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#Botany2026: Herbaria and Beyond

#Botany2026: Herbaria and Beyond

In this last post in a series on the 2026 Botanical Society of America (BSA) conference #Botany 26, I want to look at projects that highlight one of the meeting’s consistent themes:  the broad…

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#Botany2026: History

#Botany2026: History

Specimen of Linum lewisii (K000741747) collected in the Rocky Mountains, 9 February, 1806. Royal Botanic Garden, Kew Tuesday morning at the Botanical Society of America (BSA) meeting, #Botany26, st…

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Botanical illustration and the park ......Dictionnaire iconographique des orchidées, by Alfred Cogniaux, and Alphonse Goossens, 1896-1907 #botanicalillustration #orchids biodiversitylibrary.org/bibl…
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Una página del cuaderno de Margaret Mee (1909-1988), ilustradora botánica y exploradora de la selva amazónica.
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#Botany2026

#Botany2026

Sheet of handmade paper from Zoë Goehring of Cave Paper. The Botanical Society of America (BSA) met in Tucson in early August and used the hashtag #Botany2026 for the conference.  I hadn’t att…

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Post from Herbarium World on how herbaria led me to take a different look at art herbariumworld.wordpress.com…
Where Herbaria Have Taken Me: Art

Where Herbaria Have Taken Me: Art

Dick Rauh’s watercolor of Sesbania vesicaria, bladderpod. Carter Burden Gallery I can’t complete this series of posts (1,2,3) on the new worlds into which herbaria have taken me without menti…

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Where Herbaria Have Taken Me: Material Culture

Where Herbaria Have Taken Me: Material Culture

Pages from the herbarium of Giovan Battista Casapini. Palatina Library of Parma While I knew a little about history and geography before I got into learning about herbaria (see 1,2), I can honestly…

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REAL JARDÍN BOTÁNICO@RJBOTANICOSep 24
En 1853 llegaron al @RJBOTANICO tejidos, hilazas y una cuerda elaborados con fibra de ramio (Boehmeria nivea). Más de 170 años después, estas piezas conservan sus etiquetas y una historia de botánica, industria e intercambio científico. rjb.csic.es/rjb-colecciones/…
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Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden@MobotMuseumSep 24
A group of particular interest is the bellflower genus Burmeistera (Campanulaceae), which includes about 150 bat-pollinated species in the cloud forests of Central and South America, many of which were discovered and named in collaboration with scientists @mobotgarden
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This is happening too frequently all over the world and threatening biodiversity research at this most critical time.
Dr Timothy Utteridge (@timutteridge) profile pictureDr Timothy Utteridge@timutteridgeSep 25
Half of the team at the Tasmanian #Herbarium have been told they will lose their jobs, including its head, internationally acclaimed lichen researcher Dr Gintaras Kantvilas. abc.net.au/news/2026-09-24/s…
'Researcher of the Year' to be sacked as part of cost cutting

'Researcher of the Year' to be sacked as part of cost cutting

Not even the Premier's STEM Researcher of the Year 2025 can avoid a Tasmanian departmental job-cutting drive.

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よこがわ@yokogawa12Sep 22
倉敷市立自然史博物館は、戦前のコレクターの標本がしっかり整理されており、学芸員＋友の会・博物館周りの方々が集めてきた標本も充実していて地域植物相のことを理解する上で欠かせない標本室です！何度来ても新しい発見があります！これからもお世話になります！取材もありがとうございました！
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今日は大阪市立自然史博物館の学芸員の横川さん達が、奈良県のレッドリスト改定のための標本調査に来られているよ。 どうやら、当館の古い植物標本が過去を知る手掛かりになるみたい。 標本を集めて大切に保管してきたからこそ、今こうして昔からの生物相の移り変わりを知ることができるんだね。
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Dr Timothy Utteridge@timutteridgeSep 23
"A #herbarium becomes a great scientific institution not by accumulating specimens, but by building the people and programs that make those #specimens useful." 🎯 @KathleenPryer
Kathleen Pryer (@KathleenPryer) profile pictureKathleen Pryer@KathleenPryerSep 21
UNC just inherited a great collection. Will it build a great program? My op-ed in today's @newsobserver on the Duke–UNC herbarium transfer. The collection is safe. What happens next depends on how many curators and faculty UNC hires — and when. yahoo.com/news/science/artic…
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Where Herbaria Have Taken Me: Through Space

Where Herbaria Have Taken Me: Through Space

Papyrus illustration in Kaempher’s book on Japan. In the last post I reflected on how herbaria have lead me into investigation of time periods that I had given little consideration.  Now…

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よこがわ@yokogawa12Sep 15
8年ぐらいかけてタケ・ササの分類の研究者にOSAのタケ・ササ標本を再同定してもらいました。ほぼ全ての標本の再同定が終わり、データ入力も終わりが見えてきて、現在は再同定ラベルに基づいて再ソート中。ソートが終わったら全部写真撮ってリスト公開まで行けるように頑張ります！ #学芸員のおしごと
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Where Herbaria Have Taken Me: Through Time

Where Herbaria Have Taken Me: Through Time

Wild cucumber from a 13th-century Arabic translation of a herbal by Dioscorides. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore I’ve been reflecting on all the things that herbaria have gotten me into.  There …

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From the herbarium to the gallery themanitoban.com/2026/09/fro… via @the Manitoban
From the herbarium to the gallery | the Manitoban

From the herbarium to the gallery | the Manitoban

La Maison des artistes visuels francophones presented Dry Media VIII: Plant Fibres on Sept. 3, an art exhibition showing works by Textile and Fibre

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Dr Timothy Utteridge@timutteridgeAug 28
Schrebera kusnotoi Kosterm. (Oleaceae). A rare tropical olive. @yeewenlow and I needed all our brain power for this one! Opposite compound leaves (though not always) and a woody mahogany fruit. Very strange + very rarely collected in Borneo. #SBGScience #botany #Sabah
Schrebera kusnotoi Kosterm. (Oleaceae)

ALT Schrebera kusnotoi Kosterm. (Oleaceae)

Schrebera kusnotoi Kosterm. (Oleaceae)

ALT Schrebera kusnotoi Kosterm. (Oleaceae)

Schrebera kusnotoi Kosterm. (Oleaceae)

ALT Schrebera kusnotoi Kosterm. (Oleaceae)

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Thanks for reading it @Homerificus !!!
homerificus (@Homerificus) profile picturehomerificus@HomerificusAug 27
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Thank you for the great and concise writeup, always enjoy reading what comes out of the blog. Neat to have Canada crop up!
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Post from Herbarium World on a Harvard Botanical Libraries herbarium of plants from the 1820 Parry Expedition to the Canadian Arctic herbariumworld.wordpress.com…
Herbaria: Plants from a Parry Expedition

Herbaria: Plants from a Parry Expedition

Specimens of Draba alpina from the Parry Expedition Album. Harvard Botany Libraries. In this series on the herbaria I saw at Harvard University’s Botany Libraries is a collection of plants from an …

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Imagina un jardín lleno de flores tan impresionantes que su dueño no soportara la idea de perderlo. Eso le ocurrió a Jean de Nassau‑Idstein (1603-1677) que decidió inmortalizar su jardín encargando un libro que lo inmortalizara. Hoy ese libro es "Florilegio de Nassau".🌻
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