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Just published from Kew Herbarium & Kenya, sadly too late for two of the species which appear to be globally extinct, though not the three which are new to science @KewAfrica The East African Herbarium (EA) Support keeping the Herbarium at Kew! See: chng.it/X7FrmWPyvZ @kewkeepers

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A great opportunity for novices to sharpen their taxonomic skills 👌🏿

Four new plant species from tropical #Angola just published. #Kalahari sands. #OpenAccess phytokeys.pensoft.net/article/110110/ @KewScience @KewAfrica Into the Okavango

#Pandanus kajui (#Pandanaceae) is one of the rare Kenyan endemic species found only in central #Kenya. It occurs in very few number of individuals within its few sub-populations and is currently classified as Endangered according to IUCN Red List #plants #FloraOfTropicalEastAfrica

#Students and young #botanists at EA earlier today during our monthly #plant walks around the National Museums of Kenya compound. They learnt the spot characters for differentiating #Curcubitaceae, #Passifloraceae & #Vitaceae, among other families led by Ken Wambua #Nairobi #Kenya

Another rare #Kenyan #Endemic species not known by many (probably first online field photos). #Loewia tanaensis (#Passifloraceae) grows mainly on riparian Acacia-Commiphora bushland along Tana River. Formerly placed in #Turneraceae #FloraOfTropicalEastAfrica. Photos by Ken Wambua

Our long-awaited paper on the synopsis of #Pyrostria (#Rubiaceae) of continental #Africa has finally been published! Three new species & one subsp. are described. David Goyder Iain Darbyshire @KewScience @KewAfrica The East African Herbarium (EA) #OpenAcess. Available: doi.org/10.1007/s12225…

#Mycologists at The East African Herbarium (EA) have been documenting #Fungi of Kenya in the last few years and have prepared a very informative documentary on the same. See the link 👇 #mushrooms #Kenya youtu.be/5a09d6Tr27E?si…

A new species of #Aloe (#Asphodelaceae) from #Acacia ‘woodlands of hardships’ in Adadley district, #Somaliland. researchgate.net/publication/37…

The National Museums of Kenya joint scientific conference is underway and streamed live on #YouTube here; youtube.com/live/UwMN7xRyx…

EA herbarium's Ken Wambua, participating in a botanical exploration with Ahmed Ibrahim Awale & Faisal Jama in various parts of #Somaliland (incl. Daallo Forest, known to be home to strict endemics such as Diplolophium somaliense. This was made possible by Somaliland Biodiversity Foundation.

The EA herbarium is honoured to receive botanical literature from #Somaliland Biodiversity Foundation following recent research collaboration through Ken Wambua Ahmed Ibrahim Awale Faisal Jama. Vol. 3 of the Flora of #Somalia was missing at EA and we're immensely grateful for the gift #Kenya

The EA hosted Prof. Caifei Zhang of Wuhan Botanical Garden for the last 2 months working on the #orchids of #Kenya. We appreciate Caifei Zhang for determining/identifying more than 50 specimens, including a new record for Kenya and 2 potentially new species. #plants #Nairobi

Being the last Friday of the month, we held our monthly #plant walk today led by our senior #botanist Dr. Mwachala Geoffrey Mwachala assisted by Ken Wambua. Good attendance by Nature Kenya-Africa members & National Museums of Kenya staff. #FloraOfTropicalEastAfrica #NMK #Nairobi #Kenya

Great to see African Taxonomists Network featured! This is Renata Borosova talking about the impact of @KewScience 2022 Plant Taxonomy Skills course in Ghana (GC Herbarium), just as we gear up to the next one in Kenya in 2025 - stay tuned... @KewAfrica The East African Herbarium (EA) Iain Darbyshire

#Chlorophytum tuberosum (#Asparagaceae) blooming everywhere! The #honeybees are having a good time foraging on the flowers! #FloraOfTropicalEastAfrica #plants #Kenya

PhD on LSD? Vivian Kathambi is making good progress on the extraction of #ergot #alkaloids from #seeds of East African #Ipomoea, at Kew's Phytochemistry Lab - mentored by Dr Moses Langat. A collaboration between Ghent University, Kew & The East African Herbarium (EA).

Our monthly Plant Walks kick-started today with great attendance by National Museums of Kenya Nature Kenya-Africa staff and other plant enthusiasts, led by Dr. mwachala. This is a great opportunity for learning the different plant families around us.

The plant #taxonomy course for #conservation for 16 early/mid career scientists from 8 #African countries comes to a close today in #Nairobi after 5 weeks of intensive training lead by @KewAfrica team in collaboration with National Museums of Kenya, The East African Herbarium (EA) & University of Nairobi. 📸 NMK Media