Rhipidoglossum pareense is endemic to the South Pare and West Usambara mountains of north-eastern Tanzania.
Rhipidoglossum pareense. Image credit: A. Hemp.
“Rhipidoglossum...
A paleontologist from Oregon State University has found a new species of flower together with a new parasitic wasp species in a piece of amber excavated...
Victoria boliviana marks the first discovery of a giant waterlily species in over a century and breaks the record as the largest in the world.
Wild population...
Using samples brought back from NASA’s Apollo 11, 12, and 17 missions, University of Florida biologists showed that a model terrestrial plant, Arabidopsis...
Dr. Nigel Pitman from the Field Museum of Natural History and his colleagues from Ecuador, the United States, and France report the rediscovery of the...
Prasophyllum morganii was first collected from a single population in Victoria, Australia, in 1929, but has not been collected since 1933.
Prasophyllum...
In a review paper published in the journal Frontiers in Plant Science, researchers followed ancient arts and recent genetics to trace the evolutionary...
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research and elsewhere have decoded the genome of the potato cultivar ‘Otava.’ Their results...
The European mistletoe (Viscum album) is a hemiparasitic flowering plant steeped in ancient associations with druids and Northern European folklore. Since...
Paleontologists have identified two new types of fossil flowers — one identical to those of the living genus Phylica and the other a sister to Phylica...
Salpinganthium hispaniolanum grew in the forests of Hispaniola during the mid-Tertiary, between 20 and 30 million years ago.
Salpinganthium hispaniolanum....
Scientists have described a huge new species of the genus Begonia from southern Tibet, China.
Habitat and large-sized plant of Begonia giganticaulis: (A)...
A team of researchers has described a new species of the genus Allium from the Uttarakhand Himalayan region of India.
Allium negianum. Image credit: Pandey...
Avian olfaction is not just limited to vultures and a few other bird species, according to new research from the University of California, Davis, and Riverside.
Southern...
An international team of botanists has discovered three new endemic species of the orchid genus Lepanthes in the highlands of Ecuador.
Lepanthes oro-lojaensis...
Nicotiana insecticida, one of the newly-discovered species, is remarkable in its insect trapping abilities.
Nicotiana insecticida uses a sticky substance...
The newly-identified lineage of carnivorous plants is represented by the western false asphodel (Triantha occidentalis), a species of flowering plant from...
Caffeine is a widely occurring plant defense chemical that occurs in the nectar of some plants, e.g., coffee and citrus, where it may influence pollinator...
A team of U.K. botanists has discovered five new species in the plant genus Jacquemontia in the Andes of Bolivia.
Jaquemontia chuquisacensis. Image credit:...
Cauliflowers present an unusual organ arrangement with a multitude of spirals nested over a wide range of scales. How such a fractal, self-similar organization...
