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Senior Nomenclatural Registrar Kanchi Gandhi is co-author on a new paper out in Aliso documenting the rare, endangered, and endemic plants of the California Floristic Province (CFP), one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots known for high levels of plant...

Postdoctoral Fellow Dawson White has led the publication of the first reference genome and a population genomic analysis of Pedicularis furbishiae, a globally rare plant restricted to dynamic riverbank habitats along the Wolastoq (Saint John) River in...

Rain E. Bugado, mentored last summer by HUH Research Fellow Dr. Jenifer C. Lopes, was selected as one of the winners of the 2025 Undergraduate Research Prize award by the American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT). Established in 2013, the ASPT...

HUH Research Fellow Zacky Ezedin has a new publication in Blumea, describing three new species of Friesodielsia in New Guine: F. papuana, F. ferralta, and F. yelaensis, expanding the known species in the region to four. These species show distinct...

Vellozia is a neotropical genus with 127 species . It is iconic within the campos rupestres in Brazil, being one of the most abundant and species-rich endemic genera. The campos rupestres are a mountainous environment in the highlands of central-eastern...

November 2024 marks the 100th year of the Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany. To kick of the celebration, we held a symposium on November 1 with invited guests speaking about their research and the importance of collections. Read about the event in...

The Harvard Gazette recently sat down with HUH Director Jeannine Cavender-Bares to discuss her research and the importance of herbaria. Read the article here: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/10/new-herbaria-director-le…...

The botanical tale of hyperdiversity and extinction at the Centinela Ridge in western Ecuador was central to shaping our modern concept of Biodiversity Hotspots . But a new study in Nature Plants led by HUH Postdoctoral Fellow Dawson White reveals that...

Wondering about the evolutionary history of your favorite grains: wheat, barley, and rye? HUH Postdoctoral Fellow Dawson White and Professor Robie Mason-Gamer of the University of Illinois at Chicago have published a new paper in the American Journal of...

The HUH welcomed Dr. Jeannine Cavender-Bares on July 1 as our new Director. Coming to us from the University of Minnesota, Dr. Cavender-Bares brings with her a strong background of leadership and research on mechanisms that influence the origins...