Botany 2020 virtual conference



Title for my Botany 2020 presentation

I attended the Botany 2020 virtual conference, where I presented a talk on fossil passionflower seeds from Gray Fossil Site. I also coauthored a poster on the phylogeny of fossil and living mosquito ferns. The talks and links to the abstracts are below:


Hermsen, E.J.* 2020. Fossil Passiflora seeds from Gray Fossil Site (Pliocene, Tennessee, U.S.A.). Link to abstract

Jud, N.*, F. De Benedetti, E.J. Hermsen, and M. Gandolfo. 2020. Estimating the phylogeny of Azolla: a comparison between analysis of morphology and molecular data with and without tip-dating. [Poster] Link to abstract

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