A quick visit to the Paris #Herbarium. Sampling #Annonaceae specimens, doing some good old taxonomy and using Near Infra Red Scanning NIRs on leaves to test if we can use that to ID species. Flower of #Fenerivia oligosperma, endemic to #Madagascar. @mnhn.fr @ird-fr.bsky.social

screen shot of a paper co authored by Le Thomas and Schatz

Photo of a flower of Fenerivia heteropetala (Annonaceae), endemic species to Madagascar, photo taken by George Schatz: https://tropicos.org/image/100520371

This year we lost 2 great #Annonaceae specialists: Annick Le Thomas and George Schatz. Both co-authored a paper on the genera #Fenerivia & #Huberantha of #Madagascar (before under #Polylathia). PhD student Valerie Ramarosandratana (U Tana) will revise endemic #Fenerivia. Photo Schatz F. heteropetala