Research spotlights

Two valuable collections of fungi watercolours preserved at the Botanische Staatssammlung München (SNSB-BSM) are now available on the Bavarian state‘s website „bavarikon“, an online service provided by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. The illustrations by the two artists and fungi experts Konrad Schie-ferdecker and Dr. Fritz Wohlfarth are not only scientifically important, but they are also a […]

The Heimatverein Erling-Andechs has handed over two historical herbaria from the Andechs Monastery to the Bavarian State Collection for Botany (SNSB-BSM) – among them probably the oldest herbarium known so far in Bavaria. The two herbaria were ceremoniously presented on July 2023 to Prof. Dr. Gudrun Kadereit, director of the Bavarian State Collection for Botany […]

An Australian-German research team led by SNSB botanist Andreas Fleischmann has discovered six new carnivorous sundew species from Western Australia. Actually nothing special for botanists – however, four of the six new species were identified from photos posted on social media channels by nature photographers. The researchers have now published the results of their investigations […]

A German-Czech research team presents a new binational data infrastructure. Over the past four years, the project “Flora of the Bohemian Forest” has made scientific data available from historical species monitoring projects in both countries as well as new data on the current plant diversity of the Bohemian Forest (Šumava). The data is publicly online […]

SNSB botanist PD Dr. Andreas Fleischmann of the Bavarian State Collection for Botany (SNSB-BSM) received the Environmental Medal of the Free State of Bavaria on September 22nd 2022. During an honorary ceremony in the former Dominican Church in Bamberg, Bavarian Environment Minister Thorsten Glauber presented the award. As curator of flowering plants at the Bavarian […]

Among other things, lichens produce substances with biotic effects that are of great interest to the pharmaceutical industry – so-called secondary lichen substances. Researchers of the Bavarian State Collection for Botany (SNSB-BSM), in cooperation with scientists of the LMU Munich, found through genome analyses an unexpectedly high number of previously unknown gene segments responsible for […]

The IT Center of the Bavarian Natural History Collections (SNSB) presented its new app ‘DiversityNaviKey’ (DNK) – a tool for reliable identification of natural science objects. The application is based on scientific data sources managed by the established database system of the SNSB, Diversity Workbench. The freely accessible software application DiversityNaviKey (DNK) is a generic […]

SNSB researchers determine the exact diet of Australian carnivorous plants by analyzing the genes of their prey. Even tiny parasites on captured insects could be detected in this way. The scientists have now published the results of their study in the journal Scientific Reports. Carnivorous plants attract, catch and digest small animals in order to […]

2022-02-11 – Since 2013, the research initiative German Federation for Biological Data (GFBio) has been pursuing the goal of permanently securing and preserving biological and ecological research data – in order to make them accessible to scientists worldwide for their research. The association of around 20 scientific partner institutions was funded by the German Research […]

The global distribution patterns of lichen communities consisting of fungi and algae are not only an effect of internal evolutionary processes