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Herbarium

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Awards & Honors

Nico Cellinese named 2026 UF Research Foundation Professor

April 28, 2026

The University of Florida Research Foundation has named Florida Museum herbarium curator and curator of informatics Nico Cellinese as one…
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Photograph of plants growing on limestone.

Life on Earth

Scientists trace ancient bird flight paths using modern plant diversity

February 5, 2026

Key points  The Massif de la Hotte is a young, exceptionally biodiverse mountain range in southern Haiti that is home…
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Technology & Data

Biologists create a one-stop shop for world’s most charismatic plants

May 7, 2025

The Florida Museum of Natural History has partnered with 35 herbarium collections across the United States to create a web…
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Climate Change

First local extinction in the U.S. due to sea level rise

July 9, 2024

The United States has lost its only stand of the massive Key Largo tree cactus in what researchers believe is…
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Awards & Honors

Botanists and archaeologists receive National Science Foundation grant to study Mediterranean history

June 6, 2024

It’s an unusual collaboration. Botanists and archaeologists don’t often work together, unless they’re studying the way people have used plants…
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Climate Change

Florida mints radiated as peninsula sank and resurfaced during ice ages

December 8, 2022

During the ice ages of the Pleistocene, the Florida peninsula regularly expanded to twice its current size as glaciers grew…
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Life on Earth

Researchers discover new species in critically imperiled ecosystem

March 10, 2022

Researchers working in one of the world’s most biodiverse and threatened ecosystems have discovered a new plant species, Castela senticosa,…
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Shelly Gaynor collecting plants along a slope

Fieldwork

Students return to the field with the aid of museum travel awards

October 21, 2021

Every year, the Florida Museum’s Department of Natural History awards funding for University of Florida graduate students to help cover…
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Alan Franck with herbarium specimen

Hires & Promotions

Alan Franck joins Florida Museum as UF Herbarium collections manager

October 12, 2021

The University of Florida Herbarium welcomed Alan Franck as its new collections manager earlier this month. As part of his…
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Lucas Majure holds herbarium specimen

Awards & Honors

Lucas Majure earns UF Excellence Award for Assistant Professors

May 28, 2021

Florida Museum of Natural History botanist Lucas Majure is a 2021 recipient of the University of Florida’s Excellence Award for…
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