A second Renaissance of herbarium-based research, almost five centuries after their invention

Abstract

The present issue of Bauhinia presents the Proceedings of the Bauhin2022 conference, that the authors organized at the University of Basel, Switzerland, from 15-16 September 2022 in honor of Caspar Bauhin (1560–1624), celebrating his pioneering Flora of Basel 400 years after its publication (Bauhin 1622). This meeting, with ca. 100 participants from 14 countries, with 25 invited and contributed talks, 31 posters, and a discussion workshop fueled our thinking on the increasingly pivotal role of herbaria in current day research.