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Pfister to Deliver Keynote Address at EMC 2026
The international mycology community will come together in Edirne, Türkiye, from 1–3 September 2026 for the 5th International Eurasian Mycology Congress (EMC 2026), hosted by Trakya University. The congress will bring researchers, students, and...
Prof. Pfister standing in Harvard Yard under a red umbrella

HUH Researchers Join Imageomics FloraPalooza Hackathon
Researchers from the HUH recently participated in the US NSF-funded Imageomics Institute FloraPalooza hackathon held at The Ohio State University, bringing together researchers and technologists to explore new applications of computer vision and...
FloraPalooza 2026 logo

New Publication - Nomenclatural updates in Vellozia
Former HUH Research Fellow Jenifer Lopes has published research from her fellowship in Taxon . In the paper, she and colleagues at the Universidade de São Paulo examine Vellozia , a group of flowering plants that is especially diverse in Brazil's Campos...
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Life and Death on Pangea
In January 2025, the PBS Eons production team visited our colleagues at the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) to film segments for their series, Life and Death on Pangea. That visit is now available on PBS with the first two episodes of the series...
EONS cover screen, PBS Digital Studios

New Publication - Nature, Literature and Culture
For several years, Jonathan Locke Hart has been an Associate of the Harvard University Herbaria. His scholarly interests span poetry, cultural history, and science, bringing together disciplines that are too often treated separately. In his recent book...
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New Publication - Two new species of Annonaceae
Zacky Ezedin, former HUH Research Fellow and current Associate, has a new publication in Candollea highlighting some of the work he completed on the flora of Papua New Guinea while at the HUH. Ezedin uncovered two striking new plant species in the...
Goniothalamus metadoxus Ezedin

State of the World’s Plants and Fungi

Harvard University Herbaria is one of 170+ institutions in 40 countries contributing to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew’s 2026 State of the World’s Plants and Fungi [PDF] report. The report explores how new technology is transforming the race to save nature...
Digitising plants at Kew

Collection Spotlight – Friedrich Eser’s Dysodil Fossils
In the spring of 2024, while deciding which portion of the HUPB collection to inventory and rehouse next, the paleo team came across a set of very unusual specimens preserved in a sediment called dysodil. These specimens were similar to paper shales –...
Removing mold (left) and dust (right) from the surface of the specimens and the cardboard.

Specimen Spotlight - The Farlow "Thousand-Dollar Specimens"
Swedish zoologist and ethnographer Eric Georg Mjöberg, seeking sources of funding for a 1925 expedition to Borneo, approached the Farlow Herbarium for a grant in return for all specimens of cryptogams (spore-producing "plants"; this outdated category...
specimen sheet with Cryphaea_borneensis, labels, ruler, annotations

Following in Fernald's Footsteps
Harvard botanist Merritt L. Fernald made many collecting trips to Virginia between 1934 & 1947 as part of his work on the 8th edition of Gray's Manual of Botany. On one occasion he wrote about Southeastern Virginia: In spite of almost complete clearing...
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