Overseas experts and their talks during the symposium

The Hengduan Mountains hotspot; not all diversity is tropical

• Dr. David E. Boufford, Senior Research Scientist, Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries, USA

Facing Climate Change at Royal Botanical Garden (CSIC): The Tree collection.

• Prof. Dr. Esteban Manrique Reol, Real Jardín Botánico - RJB Spanish National Research Council – CSIC Calle Claudio Moyano, Madrid, Spain

Digital Flora of South Asia: Navigating Technological Paradigm Shift

• Dr. Krishna K. Shrestha, Professor and Former Head (retd.), Central Department of Botany, Tribhuvan University; Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal

Prof. Dr. Simon Stephan Milne, Regius Keeper, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Dr. Sangey Dema, National Biodiversity Center, Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Serbithang, Thimphu, Bhutan

A JOURNEY OF NEPAL FLORA

• Dr. Sangeeta Rajbhandary, Central Department of Botany, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Dr. Kanchi Natarajan Gandhi, Senior Nomenclature Registrar and Bibliographer, Harvard University, USA

Rediscovering the NHM’s Indian Botanical Artwork Collections

• Andrea Hart, Library Special Collections Manager, Natural History Museum, London.

Insights in reconstructing flora of Madras of the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries

Re-curation of the seed plants fluid collection at the Natural History Museum

• Dr. RANEE OM PRAKASH, Curator, Natural History Museum, London.

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A phylogenomic study of the genus Strobilanthes (Acanthaceae)

• Deng Yun-Fei, State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China