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How Precise Pollen Placement Has Aided Diversification in Salvia | Speaker: Dr. Ricardo Kriebel
On Saturday, April 25th, 2026, at 7 pm, the Friends of San Pedro Valley Park are pleased to welcome Dr. Ricardo Kriebel, a botanist currently at the California Academy of Sciences. On a Zoom webinar, he will present his lecture entitled “How precise pollen placement has aided diversification in Salvia.” With over 300,000 species, angiosperms (flowering plants) exhibit exceptional structural diversity in vegetative and reproductive traits. These traits have facilitated their spread across most terrestrial environments. Salvia, which is in the Lamiaceae / Mint family, has more than 1,000 species and is among the largest angiosperm genera. It is notable for its floral diversification. This diversity has been widely attributed to the mechanism that enables precise pollen placement on pollinators. In this talk, Dr. Kriebel will examine the evolutionary history of this mechanism and will present new observations about it.