by admin | May 30, 2020 | Conservation, Grants, In the Press, News, Publications, Research
New Paper Published in the International Journal of Plant Sciences! PALM CONSERVATION STUDY on the cover of International Journal of Plant Sciences! The paper looks at how botanic gardens can help conserve Cacheito Palm (Pseudophoenix ekmanii). A collaboration of...
by admin | Apr 30, 2020 | Conservation, Grants, News, Publications, Research
New Research Paper in Proceedings B! LARGE SCALE STUDY PUBLISHED: Novel genetic data for conserving plants in botanic gardens. A team of 21 experts from The Morton Arboretum, National Tropical Botanical Garden, Chicago Botanic Garden, BGCI Education, Center for Plant...
by Patrick Griffith | Oct 11, 2019 | Conservation, News, Publications, Research
Montgomery teamed up with Bonaire Expert Quirijn Coolen to discover a new palm species, Sabal lougheediana. The new palm is quite rare, and very few survive. The discovery is presented in an open-access paper on the Phytotaxa website. Patrick and Quirijn (pictured...
by Patrick Griffith | Sep 4, 2019 | Conservation, Grants, News, Publications, Research
Toward the Metacollection: Coordinating conservation collections to safeguard plant diversity BGCI-US and Montgomery Botanical Center present findings of a 3-year, multi-institutional project to find the most effective ways to capture, steward and sustain plant...
by admin | Jul 31, 2019 | News, Publications, Research
New Palm Species! The Montgomery Team describe Coccothrinax viridescens, featured on the cover of the latest Phytotaxa. The new palm is only known from gardens — no wild plants have been found yet! The paper is open access and free to read on the Phytotaxa...
by admin | May 30, 2019 | News, Publications, Research
New Cycad Species NEW CYCAD SPECIES FROM BRAZIL: Zamia brasiliensis is only found in Mato Grosso and Rondônia. Rosane Segalla and Michael Calonje’s new discovery is featured on the cover of Phytotaxa vol. 404, and is freely available...
