Hermsen Lab

Azolla , cultivated, greenhouse I am pleased to announce to publication of a new paper on fossil Azolla , now available online early at International Journal of Plant Sciences (free access). The full citation is:  Hermsen, E.J.,  N.A. Jud, F. De Benedetti, and M.A. Gandolfo. 2019.  Azolla  sporophytes and spores from the Late Cretaceous and Paleocene of Patagonia, Argentina . International Journal of Plant Sciences . https://doi.org/10.1086/704377 Update (August 21, 2019): This final version of this paper with page numbers is now online as part of the Rothwell Celebration in the September 2019 issue of International Journal of Plant Sciences.

Mountains in Funiushan Global Geopark, Nanyang, Henan, China On July 8-9, I attended a symposium on relict trees in at Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden in Shanghai, China. Participants from around the world presented their research on the ecology, conservation, systematics, paleontology, and biogeography of relict trees. Afterwards, we went on a filed trip to Nanyang, Henan Province, to see relict trees and native forests in Baotianman and Funiushan Global Geopark. My presentation was "Engelhardioid fruits from the Eocene of Patagonia and the paleobiogeography of Engelhardioideae." The abstract book is available on ResearchGate ( here ). More images are available at the Project Zelkova website .