University of Bayreuth cooperates with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in researching the plant world of Peru

The Rio Marañón valley in Peru is world-famous for its extraordinarily high biodiversity. This unique flora, characterised by species-rich dry forests, is currently being jointly studied by scientists from the University of Bayreuth, the Herbarium at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) and the National University of San Marcos in Lima. Recently, Prof. Dr. Sigrid Liede-Schumann and Dr. Ulrich Meve from the Bayreuth Chair of Plant Systematics were guests at the RBGE to examine some of the South American herbarium specimens kept there - these are dried and pressed plants. In the process, they discovered three previously unknown species of Peruvian dogbane. [Website in German]