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The Plant Press

The Plant Press is the quarterly newsletter from the Department of Botany and the U.S. National Herbarium. The purpose of The Plant Press is to provide information about the activities of the Department. Included are articles about staff research, staff travel, staff profiles, new faces, visitors, new publications, and botanical illustrations. 

  • Issue 3
    * Back to the future: A new vision for collections-based science is the focus of symposium
    * Lynn G. Clark receives the 22nd Cuatrecasas Medal
    * Abstracts from the speakers of the 22nd National Botanical Symposium
    * Converging messages from two professional meetings: Community and collaboration are key for the future of natural history collections
    * A new grape subgenus with two new critically endangered species discovered in Mexico
    * Staff recognition award ceremony and open house
    * New faces
    * Departures
    * Staff activities
    * The Plant Press listserv has ended
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Misbrookea strigosissima (A.Gray) V.A.Funk
     
  • Issue 2
    * Nearly half of the species of Heliconia are threatened with extinction
    * Delayed ocean acidification confirmed in Gulf of Maine 
    * Climate change is altering plant and pollinator relationships
    * New spatial mechanism for the coexistence of tree species: Hidden patterns in tree distribution stabilize biodiversity in forests
    * The 2024 JSE Outstanding Papers Awards given to Smithsonian botanists
    * W. Carl Taylor (1946-2025)
    * W. Carl Taylor: A keystone species in the botanical community
    * “Grass Bunch” visits US
    * New faces
    * Departures
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Heliconia donstonea W.J.Kress & Betancur
     
  • Issue 1
    * Species discovery is propelled as scientists use drones to discover rare Hawaiian plants
    * 22nd National Botanical Symposium to explore the future of collections-based plant science
    * It’s time to get serious about nature
    * Researchers call for better coordination of the rules for benefit sharing for the use of digital sequence information
    * A new grass family phylogeny is published
    * Untangling Trebouxia, a green algal lichen photobiont in southern Africa
    * Peanut illustration used to honor President Carter
    * New Faces
    * Staff Activities
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Schiedea waiahuluensis W.L.Wagner, Weller, B.Nyberg, & A.K.Sakai
  • Issue 4
    * Botanists meet in Madrid at the XX International Botanical Congress
    * Museum specialists meet in Okinawa at the 39th annual meeting and SPNHC-TDWG joint conference
    * Scientists unravel transition of survival strategies in grape family 
    * New taxa recently described by Smithsonian botanists
    * Congressional night at the museum
    * New faces
    * Staff activities
    * U.S. National Herbarium, By the Numbers, Collections Edition
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Bahiana occidentalis K.Wurdack
     
  • Issue 3
    * Planting for the future: Conservation horticulture blossoms at symposium
    * Peter F. Stevens receives the 21st Cuatrecasas Medal
    * Abstracts from the speakers of the 21st Smithsonian Botanical Symposium
    * New publication: Smithsonian Trees of North America
    * Outside of the cabinet and into the garden: Vicki Funk’s extraordinary legacy in botanic gardens
    * New faces
    * Staff activities
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Zizania aquatica L.
     
  • Issue 2 
    * On closer inspection: APHIS team joins Botany
    * Chair With A View: Herbaria in the age of the Anthropocene and big data
    * Department of Botany transitions to new leadership structure
    * Mark M. Littler (1939-2023)
    * A botanical detective story: uncovering the true type locality of a rare grass species
    * Weniomeles, a new genus in the rose family named in honor of Jun Wen
    * New studies from ForestGEO emphasize the importance of biodiversity
    * News from the Botany Research Greenhouse
    * Department of Botany travel award recipients announced
    * New faces
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Asteraceae achenes
     
  • Issue 1
    * Tracking the climate-influenced north temperate radiation of the grape genus using genomic data
    * Speakers announced for the 21st Smithsonian Botanical Symposium
    * Botany Family Picnic 2023
    * GEO-TREES is launched at COP28
    * ForestGEO hosts virtual seminar series
    * Learning the art of botanical illustration
    * Travel award recipients visit Smithsonian
    * Staff activities
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Vitis californica Benth.
  • Issue 4
    * Summer interns in botany gain mentor-guided experience
    * Save the date: 21st Smithsonian Botanical Symposium to be held on 17 May 2024
    * Greenhouse update
    * A guide to collecting plant specimens for the US National Herbarium
    * Colonization influences worldwide distribution of plant specimens
    * Vickianthus, a new genus of the Vernonieae (Compositae), chosen to honor Vicki Funk
    * ForestGEO hosts 2023 annual analytical workshop in Panama
    * Staff Activities
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Aframomum angustifolium (Sonn.) K.Schum.
     
  • Issue 3
    * Welcome to the jungle: Symposium explores Neotropical plants
    * Rafaela Campostrini Forzza receives the 20th Cuatrecasas Medal
    * Abstracts from the speakers of the 20th Smithsonian Botanical Symposium
    * A diplomatic solution: Demissew receives physical Cuatrecasas Medal
    * Cherry and grape hunting in the southeast USA
    * Request for plant exudate samples
    * Edward S. Ayensu (1935-2023)
    * New issue of International Journal of Plant Sciences honors Vicki Funk
    * New faces
    * Staff activities
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Heliconia terciopela W.J.Kress & Betancur
     
  • Issue 2
    * Plant and lichen discovery in the southern Philippines
    * Registration now open for the 2023 Smithsonian Botanical Symposium
    * A look at the Guiana Shield plant collections of Redden and Wurdack
    * A new genomic resource available for Annonaceae
    * Diving into the green algae of Puerto Rico
    * Relocation of the Botany Research Greenhouse
    * AJ Harris (1978-2023), former Peter Buck postdoctoral fellow
    * Tangerini and Yankowski each recognized for 50 years of career service
    * By the numbers: Collections edition
    * Staff activities
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Causonis japonica (Thunb.) Raf.
     
  • Issue 1
    * Amigos de las Gramíneas en México
    * Editor’s Note: The Plant Press newsletter transitions to online-only publication
    * U.S. National Herbarium appears on the shortlist for Apollo’s Digital Innovation of the Year award
    * Thoughts, impressions, and observations at the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity Conference of the Parties (COP15), Montreal, 6-19 December 2022
    * Pollinators take spotlight at the NAPPC 2022 Conference
    * Progress in taxonomy and evolution of the licorice family
    * A special herbarium visit by the Dugand family
    * Three Botany staff members retire
    * New faces
    * Staff activities
    * Staff picnic
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Muhlenbergia jaime-hintonii P.M.Peterson & Valdés-Reyna
  • Issue 4
    * Grape escapes and beyond: A summer of botanical adventures in southern US and Mexico
    * New issue of the Journal of Systematics and Evolution investigates the biogeography and phylogenetics within the grasses
    * Nature editorial connects the dots between forests, models, and funding
    * Hawaii Rare Plant Genetics Workshop advances conservation research
    * Reflections on the Botany 2022 hybrid conference
    * ForestGEO hosts multi-network tree mortality workshop
    * Specimen spotlight: Chenopodium ucrainicum (Amaranthaceae)
    * Staff activities
    * Summer interns
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Vitis rotundifolia Michaux
     
  • Issue 3
    * An exceptional symposium explores plants on the edge
    * Michelangeli receives the 19th Cuatrecasas Medal
    * Abstracts from the speakers of the 19th Smithsonian Botanical Symposium
    * Botanical data for all: The U.S. National Herbarium is digitized!
    * Lost South American wildflower named “extinctus” rediscovered (but still endangered)
    * “Our Places” explores connections to nature
    * Corpse flower creates a stench in the research greenhouse
    * Wings of Life: Pollinator Week 2022
    * Awards & Honors
    * New Faces
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Tibouchina fraterna N.E. Br.
     
  • Issue 2
    * Stamp of approval: A guide to gesneriads on stamps
    * Registration now open for the 2022 Smithsonian Botanical Symposium
    * Smithsonian study finds more ‘losers’ than ‘winners’ among plants in the age of humans
    * Living in harmony with nature: Winners, losers, and the Convention on Biological Diversity
    * Explosive fossil fruit found buried beneath ancient Indian lava flows
    * Ancient hybridization and genome doubling explain the origin of the apple tribe
    * Women support staff of the US National Herbarium 2022
    * Untangling the roots of plant genomes: Supporting a 'moonshot' for botany
    * Specimen collected by Smithsonian botanist in the 1920s determined to be a new species nearly a century later
    * How two key figures brought cherry trees to the U.S.
    * Departures
    * Awards & Honors
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Corytoplectus speciosus (Poepp.) Wiehler
     
  • Issue 1
    * Botany connections: Bringing community together in the time of a pandemic
    * William (Bill) Louis Stern (1926-2021)
    * Eocene grass spikelet found preserved in Baltic amber
    * National Seed Strategy provides native seed progress
    * A momentary thought in time: a letter from Siberia
    * Award & Honors
    * Science to Go features a lesson in botanical illustration
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Vallisneria spiralis L.
  • Issue 4
    * A Sowerby surprise: Specimen digitization project finds original hand-painted engravings
    * Behind-the-scenes video takes you inside the Botany Digitization Conveyor project
    * Tropical forests in Africa’s mountains store more carbon than previously thought – but are disappearing fast
    * Biogeography of Tetrastigma fleshes out Asia-Australian floristic exchange history
    * One in three tree species face extinction, study finds
    * Reflections on the Botany 2021 virtual meeting
    * A virtual summer experience for natural history interns
    * A summer of grape escapes: A field work photo journal
    * Spotlight interview: ForestGEO’s David Kenfack
    * New faces
    * Botany grieves the loss of two cherished plant mounting volunteers
    * Staff activities
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Lecanora sp.
     
  • Issue 3
    * It takes two: Synopsis of a symposium about symbiosis 
    * Demissew receives 18th Cuatrecasas Medal
    * Abstracts from the speakers of the 18th Smithsonian Botanical Symposium 
    * Maria A. Faust (1930-2021)
    * A new species of Pisonia birdcatcher tree discovered in the island of Jamaica
    * Specimen spotlight
    * New species of Gesneriaceae named after Funk
    * Native Pollinator Garden Recipe Cards are now available
    * How to find black walnuts
    * Memorial held for Harold Robinson
    * Awards
    * Research & Activities
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Pseudarthria panii R.Zhang, T.S.Yi & B.Pan
     
  • Issue 2
    * A botanical cliff-hanger
    * Rare lichen unique to Florida discovered in museum collections, may be extinct
    * PolliNation DC to document urban buzz
    * Pasoh pigs as agents of forest diversity: a "silver swining”
    * Registration opens for the 2021 Smithsonian Botanical Symposium
    * The botanical pressed specimen sheet – an artform in itself
    * Notable women in science: Women of the United States National Herbarium
    * “E.D.” and the elusive Bidens
    * By the numbers
    * Awards & Honors
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Pogostemon guamensis Lorence & W.L.Wagner
     
  • Issue 1
    * Harold Robinson, prominent Smithsonian botanist, dies at 88
    * Reflections and memories of Harold Robinson
    * Robert Ireland (1932–2020)
    * Fake flowers, real news: a new plant-fungus association in Guyana
    * America’s crop cousins are numerous, imperiled, and more needed than ever
    * ForestGEO celebrates 30th anniversary
    * Researchers find new grass species in Maloti-Drakensberg area in southern Africa
    * Discovering the hidden pollinators of Platanthera
    * Molecular techniques in focus: Common misconceptions about tissue preservation for DNA
    * Award & Honors: Science Achievement Award
    * The 18th Smithsonian Botanical Symposium, 13-14 May 2021, to explore plant symbioses
    * János Xántus, a 19th century collector
    * David Kenfack elected as a Fellow to the African Academy of Sciences
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Stachycephalum asplundii H.Rob. & Tangerini
  • Issue 4
    * Flora of the Marquesas Islands, a multiphase project
    * New funding opportunity for botanic gardens
    * Summer explorations: Descubre la historia natural
    * Global Strategy for Plant Conservation succeeds in aligning actions to protect plant diversity around the world
    * Reflections on the Botany 2020 virtual meeting
    * Artwork by Regina Olson Hughes featured in a National Technical Institute for the Deaf exhibition
    * “What wood is that?”: Expanding the toolbox for species identification
    * ForestGEO welcomes 72nd plot to the network: Ordway Swisher, Florida, USA
    * Selected hydrangea histories
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Lebronnecia kokioides Fosberg
     
  • Issue 3
    * That time when we all stayed home: The critical need for herbaria and continued plant collecting
    * By the numbers: Pandemic edition
    * A DC teenager’s 1917-1919 herbarium
    * ForestGEO network adapts in response to COVID-induced changes
    * The importance of genomics in preventing pandemics
    * Children are learning how to press plants at home
    * Earth Optimism Digital Summit gives hope
    * SPNHC and ICOM NATHIST go virtual
    * A deep look at American ginseng at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
    * Friedrich Vierhapper and the serendipity of Facebook
    * Researchers split the birdcatcher trees (genus Pisonia) into three
    * ForestGEO data key to the development and testing of the NGEE-Tropics’ FATES model
    * Alice Tangerini receives the Jill Smythies Award from the Linnean Society
    * In memoriam: Jerome McDonald
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Weinmannia sp.
     
  • Issue 2
    * Prunus is a model clade for investigating tropical-to-temperate transitions
    * Botanical research in the age of COVID-19
    * Physical distancing telework testimonial
    * Analyzing tree data to prevent extinctions
    * Growing pains in the Type Herbarium
    * ForestGEO network welcomes three new plots
    * New plant species named in honor of Vicki Funk
    * The Digitized State Plants of America
    * Highlights from a winter after-school botanical workshop
    * New faces
    * Staff activities
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Prunus polystachya (Hook.f.) Kalkman
     
  • Issue 1
    * Vicki Ann Funk, influential Smithsonian botanist, dies at 71
    * Vicki Funk: Appreciations and reflections
    * The 2020 Smithsonian Botanical Symposium, May 15, to explore plant symbioses
    * Rare benthic marine algae species discovered from the deep-water habitats of Bonaire
    * The Franck family succulent portraiture
    * Searching for holy wood in the dry forests of Colombia
    * Illustration intern has a productive fall semester
    * Science Achievement Awards
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Erato costaricensis E. Moran & V.A. Funk
  • Issue 4
    * Parasitic plants: Important components of biodiversity
    * Linnaean Medal awarded to Vicki Funk
    * The Global Genome Initiative for Gardens at 5 years: Intern retrospectives
    * Congressional Night at the Museum
    * A splitting headache: a herbarium specimen conservation project
    * Lorraine Eyde (1932-2019)
    * A review of field guides to grasses of the western United States
    * A look into the Budapest Herbarium
    * ForestGEO awards research grants to 7 forest scientists
    * Conveyor belt project hits 2.5 million images
    * Q?rius botany class: Summer 2019
    * Retirements: W. John Kress
    * YES! Interns experience a summer of mistletoes and lichens
    * New Faces
    * Honors and Awards
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Dendrophthora sp.
     
  • Issue 3
    * A perfect occasion to talk about domestication
    * Abstracts from the Speakers of the 17th Smithsonian Botanical Symposium
    * Knapp Receives 17th Cuatrecasas Medal
    * Editor’s Note: “The Search for Santessonia Continues”… Continues
    * Ernani Guingona Meñez (15 August 1931 – 01 May 2019)
    * Designing a state-of-the-art taxonomic research workstation
    * New publication highlights the Guiana Shield plant collections
    * Origin and diversification of the sunflower family
    * Herbarium specimen conservation project: Agnes Chase and Albert Hitchcock’s 1908 field expedition
    * Winner of youth art contest visits Smithsonian
    * Conger and the diatoms
    * ForestGEO hosts annual analytical workshop in Singapore
    * New Faces
    * Staff Activities
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Artocarpus altilis (Parkinson ex F.A.Zorn) Fosberg
     
  • Issue 2
    * New heights for bryophytes
    * Editor’s Note: In like a (dande)lion
    * Honors & Awards
    * Recipients of the 2019 travel awards
    * After school students participate in Pterrific Pteridophyte Ptuesdays
    * Brazil-endemic plant genus Mcvaughia highlights diversity in a unique biome
    * Staff Activities
    * New Faces
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Distichophyllum cuspidatum (Dozy & Molk.) Dozy & Molk. and Leskeodon brevicuspidatus (E.B. Bartram) B.C. Tan & H. Rob.
     
  • Issue 1
    * Asexuality as a detour, not a dead end
    * Chair with a view: Working hard
    * Museum staff honors its peers
    * Ancient plants tell stories of today
    * Botany website redesign
    * The digitization conveyor project hits 2 million scans
    * The 2019 Smithsonian Botanical Symposium, May 17, to explore plant domestication
    * The search for Santessonia continues
    * In Memoriam
    * Departures
    * New Faces
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Dryopteris macropholis Lorence & W.L.Wagner
  • Issue 4
    * Machine Learning in a Natural World
    * Fire Destroys the National Museum of Brazil
    * Staff Research & Activities
    * Awards & Grants
    * New Faces
    * Herbarium is Destination for Summer Schools
    * Thomas H. Hollowell (2 Sept 1954 – 25 Sept 2018)
    * Funk Receives the 2018 Asa Gray Award
    * Botanical Workshop Brings in High School Students
    * Cuatrecasas Travel Award Recipient Examines Nyctaginaceae Anatomy
    * A Summer Internship Focused on Women in Science
    * A Mystery Solved: The Shifty Shifters are Discovered
    * Artwork of Emily Dickinson Plants to Be Displayed outside Chair’s Office
    * Observing the 100th Anniversary of Armistice Day: the Common Poppy
    * Smithsonian Botanists Chiefly Edit Scientific Journals
    * Untangling Indian Hemp
    * By The Numbers: Digitization Edition
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Trichomanes pedicellatum Desv.
     
  • Issue 3
    * Turn Back Time: Plant Fossils Find a Way
    * Graham Receives 16th Cuatrecasas Medal
    * Among the Pioneers of Open Access in Botany, PhytoKeys is Celebrating its 100th Issue
    * Staff Research & Activities
    * New Faces
    * Wonderful World of Plant Microtechnique
    * Collections-based Science in the 21st Century
    * Grasses of Chihuahua, Mexico
    * Celebrating the Summer Solstice with Pollinators
    * Described 28 Years Post-Collection, New Grass Species Makes a Strong Case for Conservation
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Alpinia modesta F.Muell. ex K.Schum.
     
  • Issue 2
    * Using Big Data to Ask Big Questions: Why Are There So Many (Damn) Daisies?
    * Chair With A View: What’s Going On
    * Departures
    * New Faces
    * Recipients of the 2018 Travel Awards
    * Honors & Awards
    * Linda Hollenberg (1953-2018)
    * Tangerini Illustrations Featured in Three Exhibitions
    * Forensic Botany: Delicious or Deadly
    * Native Tree Ranges and Exotic Plant Expansions are Tracked Using LeafSnap
    * Ancient Grape Lineage Discovered
    * 30 Years of the Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield Program
    * How Did Renaissance People Dye Easter Eggs?
    * Unusual Properties within the Grass Genus Diplachne
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Hymenoxys ambigens (S.F. Blake) Bierner var. neomexicana W.L. Wagner
     
  • Issue 1
    * Wind Dispersal for the Win: New Fern Collections from the Marquesas Islands
    * Chair With A View: A Chameleon with a Very Long Tale
    * Peer Recognition Awards
    * Plants and Pollinator Health are Focus of NAPPC 2017 Conference
    * The 2018 Smithsonian Botanical Symposium, May 18, to Explore Plants in the Past
    * Stanwyn G. Shetler (1933-2017)
    * New Exhibit has Focus on Seeds
    * Updates from Botany Information Management Team
    * Donation of Walter Lewis’ Pollen Slide Collection
    * First Comprehensive List of Vascular Plant Species of the Americas
    * Preservation of a Chinese Plant and the Culture Around It
    * Hidden Inca Treasure: Remarkable New Tree Discovered in the Andes
    * Triphora Orchid Found in Northeast Brazil
    * A Successful Expedition Signifies the Palau Orchid Conservation Initiative is Officially Underway
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Dryopteris macropholis Lorence & W.L. Wagner
  • Issue 4
    * Keep Cool and Carex On
    * Chair With A View: Leaves of Grass
    * Staff Research & Activities
    * New Faces
    * Staff on the Move
    * I Know What You Did Last Summer: Reflections from Botany Interns
    * New Welcome Sign Provides Fresh Look to Fourth Floor Herbarium Entrance
    * Ensete superbum Still in Bloom: A Rare Medicinal and Ornamental Plant
    * ForestGEO Hosts Summer Data Analysis Workshop
    * Botanists Endorse Shenzhen Declaration on Plant Sciences
    * Botany Department Takes Part in the Shenzhen Nomenclature Section at IBC
    * Living in the Anthropocene: A Collection of Essays on the Age of Humans
    * Significant Changes Uncovered in the Marine Ecosystem of the Gulf of Maine
    * A New Critically Endangered Tree Species Depends on Unique Habitat Found Only on Kauai
    * New Grass Discovered in the Mountains of Turkey
    * Conservation Biologists Find Reasons for Optimism
    * Art by Alice Tanerini: Scleria tropicalis M.T. Strong
     
  • Issue 3
    * Plant Expeditions: History Has Its Eyes on You
    * Foster Receives 15th Cuatrecasas Medal
    * Chair With A View: XIX International Botanical Congress
    * Staff Research & Activities
    * Awards & Grants
    * The Buzz About Pollinator Week
    * Bees & Bouquets Featured at 2017 Annual Smithsonian Weekend
    * Saving Endangered Species Youth Art Contest Recipient Visits Smithsonian
    * Team Limu Participates in MarineGEO Hawaii Bio-Assessment 2017
    * “Cultivating America’s Gardens,” Opens at National Museum of American History
    * Earth Optimism Summit Celebrates Conservation Success Stories
    * New Insights into Plant Species that Invade the West Indies
    * Herbarium Receives Personal Gift of Swedish Specimens
    * Are Pressed Plants Windows into World History?
    * Art by Alice Tanerini: Sanchezia fosteri Wassh.
     
  • Issue 2
    * Putting Plants on Display
    * Chair With A View: April is the Cruelest Month
    * The 2017 Smithsonian Botanical Symposium, May 19, to Explore Exploration
    * Awards & Grants
    * Botany Digitizes Its 1,000,000th Herbarium Specimen
    * Winter Interns Contribute to Botany
    * Increasing Research Impact by Cross-Linking NCBI & EMu Records
    * A New, Community-Derived Classification for Seed-Free Vascular Plants
    * New Fern Species Discovered in East Maui
    * Art by Alice Tanerini: Raveniopsis sp. nov.
     
  • Issue 1
    * Wood Anatomy Climbs Back to the Smithsonian
    * Chair With A View: New Year’s Resolutions
    * Peer Recognition Awards
    * Science Achievement Awards
    * Memorial Service Held for Dan Nicolson
    * Rusty Leaves for the Field…The Field Museum, That Is!
    * Bordelon Hangs Up His Gardening Gloves
    * Report from a Smith Fellowship Awardee
    * Biological Conservation Newsletter Comes to an End
    * Updates from the Botany Digitization Conveyor Project
    * A New Species of Quillwort Named for the U.S. State of Mississippi
    * Art by Alice Tanerini: Serjania laruotteana Cambess.
  • Issue 4
    * We Are All Lichens
    * Chair with a View: Presidential Politics
    * New Faces
    * Howard University Herbarium (HUDC) Receives Donation of Ten Herbarium Cabinets from Smithsonian’s Department of Botany
    * Botanical Illustrator, Alice Tangerini, Featured at Smithsonian Libraries Event
    * Travel Award Recipients to Visit Herbarium
    * Poa palustris L. Rediscovered, or Discovered in Maryland?
    * Something Stinky This Way Comes
    * Plant Discovery and Extinction: The Narrow Window
    * New and Extremely Rare Species of Melicope (Rutaceae) Described from Maui
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Parmotrema stuppeum (Taylor) Hale and Parmotrema perlatum (Huds.) M. Choisy.
     
  • Issue 3
    * Green Things and Pollinator Wings: Symposium Explores Pollination Biology
    * Bawa Receives 13th Cuatrecasas Medal
    * Abstracts from the Speakers at the 14th Smithsonian Botanical Symposium
    * Chair with a View: Taking Stock
    * New Faces
    * Volunteer Appreciation in Botany
    * Dan Henry Nicolson (1933-2016)
    * Smithsonian Scientists Participate in National BioBlitz
    * Common and Conspicuous Trees of Yasuni, Ecuador
    * Quillwort Type Gets Visitors
    * Celebrating Pollinators and Plants
    * Rising CO2 Depletes Pollen’s Nutritional Potency, Bees Suffer
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Oenothera macrocarpa Nutt.
     
  • Issue 2
    * Trolling for Garden Genomes
    * Chair with a View: Aphorisms for the Field Botanist, with Apologies to Linnaeus (and Poor Richard)
    * New Faces
    * Grasses of Egypt
    * Specimen Digitization Update
    * Sustaining and Restoring Plant Diversity
    * New Cases for the Bulky Bamboo Collection
    * Botany in a New Era of Discovery
    * Focus on Research Associates: It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again!
    * Herbarium Schlagintweit: The Case of the Beheaded Botanist
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Musa violascens Ridl.
     
  • Issue 1
    * Conveying Specimen Value through Digitization
    * Chair with a View: Seduced by an Herbarium
    * Departures
    * Sohmer Receives BRIT International Award of Excellence in Conservation
    * The 2016 Smithsonian Botanical Symposium, May 20, to Explore Pollination
    * Recognizing Our Peers
    * The Quest for the Wild Kidney Bean
    * Botanists Call for a New Global Biodiversity CyberBank
    * New Mendoncia Species Honors Hollenberg
    * Recipient of 2015 Cuatrecasas Fellowship Award Visits NMNH
    * A Year of Ferns
    * Art by Alice Tangerini: Oenothera riskindii W.L. Wagner
  • Issue 4 - Restoring the Forgotten Botanical Legacy of Agustin Stahl
  • Issue 3 - Seed-Free and Loving It: Symposium Celebrates Pteridology
  • Issue 2 - Doing the Pteridophyte Shuffle
  • Issue 1 - Special Agents Seek Change
  • Issue 4 - The Erosion of Collections-Based Science: Alarming Trend or Coincidence?
  • Issue 3 - Biogeography: Three's No Place Like Home
  • Issue 2 - New Endowment Honors Lyman Smith Legacy
  • Issue 1 - Research Scientist Spills the Beans
  • Issue 4 - Frondly Focused on Ferns
  • Issue 3 - Decisions, Traditions, and New Paradigms in Conservation
  • Issue 2 - 10 Botanical Treasures Exemplify Herbarium
  • Issue 1 - Trails and Trials in Papua New Guinea
  • Issue 4 - Planted Evidence Found in Research Greenhouse
  • Issue 3 - Letting the Phylogeny Genie Out of the Bottle
  • Issue 2 - Seeing the Forest for the Trees
  • Issue 1 - Seeking Success in Seeds
  • Issue 4 - Pacific Island Researchers Are In a Hotspot
  • Issue 3 - Island Explorations and Evolutionary Investigations
  • Issue 2 - Making Sense of the Schomburgk Expeditions
  • Issue 1 - Seeking the Botanical Frontier in Guyana
  • Issue 4 - Food, Glorious Food
  • Issue 3 - A Fresh Perspective on a Botanical Puzzle Box
  • Issue 2 - A History of the US National Herbarium
  • Issue 1 - Are You Experienced? Interning in Botany
  • Issue 4 - A Botanical Presence at Scientific Meetings
  • Issue 3 - Type Register Reaches 100,000 Records
  • Issue 2 - Genome Scientists Express Themselves
  • Issue 1 - In Search of Beans and Cassava in Guyana
  • Issue 4 - TL-2 Speaks Volumes
  • Issue 3 - It Takes Two: Understanding Evolution
  • Issue 2 - Ocean Literacy at the Microscopic Level
  • Issue 1 - Humming to the Tune of Coevolution
  • Issue 4 - Mt. Sanqingshan, a Botanical Treasure
  • Issue 3 - Mellon Grant Begins to Bear Fruit
  • Issue 2 - The Guiana Shield: 20 Years and Counting
  • Issue 1 - Taking Aim at the GSPC Targets
     
  • Issue 4 - A Century of Links
  • Issue 3 - Islands in the Stream of Evolution
  • Issue 2 - Cracking the Botanical Barcode
  • Issue 1 - Botanist Taps Rubber Relations
  • Issue 4 - Asian Botanist Digs Ginseng
  • Issue 3 - Botanists Look Into the Future
  • Issue 2 - North to Alaska: Grass Collecting in America
  • Issue 1 - 150 Years of Thistles, Daisies and Sunflowers
  • Issue 4 - The Rebirth of the Contributions Series
  • Issue 3 - Flowers: Provocative Agents of Cultural Change
  • Issue 2 - Cyberspace Floras and Informal Botany
  • Issue 1 - Artists Have to Draw the Line Somewhere
  • Issue 4 - Zingiberales: An Order of Magnitude
  • Issue 3 - A Colossus of the Compositae
  • Issue 2 - The Temperature of Southeast Asian Botany
  • Issue 1 - Botanist Untangles Caribbean Vines
  • Issue 4 - With Liberty and Justicia for All
  • Issue 3 - Botanists Continue Nuclear Testing
  • Issue 2 - Coming to Terms with Biodiversity
  • Issue 1 - The Herbarium: A Case Study
  • Issue 4 - Botanists Promote Endangered Planet Conservation
  • Issue 3 - Pinnae for Your Thoughts
  • Issue 2 - Taxonomy and Science Friction
  • Issue 1 - Flying Down to Rhoeo
  • Issue 4 - Gesneriads Turn on "The Guiding Light"
  • Issue 3 - Inside "The Grass Menagerie"
  • Issue 2 - Island of Madagaster Yields Plant Treasures
  • Issue 1 - Librarian Maintains a Vintage Ferrari
  • Issue 3 - Algae You Never Knew Existed
  • Issue 2 - Dinoflagellate Studies Confined to Cells
  • Issue 1 - A Prolific Asian Plant Corrector
  • Issue 6 - A New Victorian Age For Biodiversity
  • Issue 5 - Lichenologist Narrows the Generation Gap
  • Issue 4 - New Compactors Provide Needed Space
  • Issue 3 - IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants Released
  • Issue 1 & 2 - Pacific Botanist Pieces it All Together