Irish Botany News
This is the first flora to be written for county Waterford, and a great tribute to Paul Green’s meticulous and thorough fieldwork. Paul Green has spent the past 10 years working on the flora, and it contains detailed introductory chapters outlining the work...
Irish Botany News
The Golden-Eye lichen has been refound by lichenologist Vince Giavarini during the current Lichen Ireland Survey. Paul Whelan of Biology.ie has written a short piece on his excellent website. Read more here.
Irish Botany News
Noeleen Smyth (National Botanic Gardens), Sinead Phelan & Gerry Douglas (Teagasc Research Institute, Malahide Road, Kinsealy, Co. Dublin) Trichomanes speciosum, Killarney Fern Trichomanes speciosum Willd (Killarney fern) is a large filmy fern in the...
Irish Botany News
A synonymy spreadsheet for the bryophytes of Ireland is now available This is similar to the spreadsheet for vascular plants produced some years ago. The spreadsheet will automatically look up the current name for a taxon and provide the authority, common name and...
Irish Botany News
Over the last 200 years or so, nearly as many alien plants have been recorded in Ireland as there are native taxa. This catalogue, published in 2002, is the first annotated check-list of the approximately 920 alien plant taxa recorded in Ireland. Catalogue entries...
Irish Botany News
A community-based conservation project to consolidate and establish new populations of the highly endangered Irish Fleabane. Lough Derg contains the last site in Ireland for the protected plant species Irish Fleabane. To conserve this species and ensure that part of...
