Kew Bulletin

18/03/2024

In 2014, botanists went to explore the high mountains of northern where they collected for ex situ . In 2022, a tree grown from those seeds finally flowered and proved to be a new species. Check it out
Kew Bulletin https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-023-10133-9
This was part of a fantastic between researchers from Birmingham Botanical Gardens Kew Gardens Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Singapore Botanic Gardens & Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology. Congrats to all the authors! 🇬🇧🇸🇬🇻🇳

18/03/2024

People say are notorious for being unable to write legibly because they haven't seen ' . Check out this article on nomenclatural notes on Nertera, a genus in the family by I. Turner
Kew Bulletin
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-023-10128-6

13/03/2024

Superb job by & on documenting the diversity of a genus in the family in . Keep up the good job Kew Bulletin

A summary of the species of Pyrostria from continental Africa is presented, including full descriptions of three new species, P. makovui, P. namacubiensis and P. rovumensis from the coastal forests of the Tanzania-Mozambique border region, and one new subspecies, P. lobulata subsp. bridsoniae from Z...

11/03/2024

Ceratozamia oliversacksii a new species from described by
et al honouring Oliver Sacks, author of 'The Island of the Colorblind' a fascinating story about a disease linked to a neurotoxin accumulated by Cycas' seed-eater bats Kew Bulletin
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-021-09992-x

08/03/2024

Celebrating we highlight this piece led by Rafaela J. Trad from
RBGE Science et al where they discovered leaf anatomical traits useful to disentangle the of a species complex from Kew Bulletin
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-023-10083-2

07/03/2024

morphology can be very useful to identify species as demonstrated by B. Wantongsuk et al who studied in from . They discovered seed appendages that absorb and may facilitate dispersion
Kew Bulletin
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-023-10161-5

07/03/2024

are all included in the genus which was known to always present inferior o***y, until a with superior o***y was described from . Check it out
Kew Bulletin
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-023-10144-6

05/03/2024

Fresh off the press! Four new species of deciduous in the family from . These trees form the Sofikomba alliance, meaning leaves shaped like a lemur’s ear, in : sofi = ear + komba = lemur. See it
Kew Bulletin

The genus Hyperacanthus comprises 11 species, nine in Madagascar and two in Africa, although many Madagascan species remain undescribed. All Madagascan species of Hyperacanthus are evergreen trees occurring in humid and semi-humid forest. Four deciduous species occur in the dry forests of northern,....

05/03/2024

Fresh off the press! Four new species of deciduous in the family from . These trees form the Sofikomba alliance, meaning leaves shaped like a lemur’s ear, in : sofi = ear + komba = lemur. See it
Kew Bulletin
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-023-10158-0

29/02/2024

Sometimes describe based on incomplete material that is yet informative enough to identify distinct organisms. This is specially true when are collected in remote areas, like this Parkia barnebyana a from .
Further study of specimens by

botanist Helen Hopkins et al led to discover additional specimens of this species from so its description & distribution is now updated. Check it out

https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-023-10109-9

16/02/2024

As days in the northern hemisphere become longer we are ready for season when one of the first plants to are aka Checkout this hybrid species reported in the Iberian peninsula for the first time Kew Bulletin https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-023-10129-5

15/02/2024

What happens when a team of botanists spend 35 days and cover over 3400 km in looking for ? Find out in this publication by
and team Kew Bulletin
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-023-10095-y Great international collaboration!🇵🇪🌾🇪🇸

14/02/2024

Happy Today people celebrate with and we do it introducing Rosa yangii, a new species from Kew Bulletin https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-023-10135-7

13/02/2024

Today is and we celebrate changes in names! nomenclature is the scientific naming of plants governed by the International Code of Nomenclature for , , and . Check our nomenclature papers!
Kew Bulletin
https://link.springer.com/journal/12225

12/02/2024

Remembering on his birthday we present Psychotria darwiniana, a new species in the family from , named after a funding body supporting critical Kew Bulletin
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-008-9056-4

11/02/2024

To celebrate we feature a piece by Paula Rudall, Honorary Research Associate (Emeritus), giving a historical account of the Jodrell lab
Kew-Science Rbg Kew, one of the world’s first non-university affiliated labs for plant sciences. Check it out: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-022-10061-0

09/02/2024

is the of classification and a fundamental step in classifying organisms is generating well-curated species lists for particular regions from
et al prepared this checklist of for . They included 102 species in 3 genera in this paper! Check out this publication Kew Bulletin here https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-023-10151-7

08/02/2024

Have you ever heard of plants growing on fields? Introducing Thesium schmiedeliae a new species endemic to Knersvlakte Nature Reserve in described by Daniel A. Zhigila Kew Bulletin https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-023-10114-y

06/02/2024

Botanists get to name new species after people we admire and for their achievements and contributions. That is the case of Vepris robertsoniae a species in the family named for Mrs Anne Robertson, early of Kenya forest's conservation.
Check out this publication by from and W. R. Quentin Luke from East African Herbarium, Kenya Kew Bulletin
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-023-10120-0

03/02/2024

refers to that go extinct before being scientifically documented. That might be the case of Monanthotaxis bali a from Bali Ngemba in by botanists & J. M. Onana https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-023-10117-9

02/02/2024

Tephrosia kindiana is a only known from 3 localities in Préfecture, and is considered to be endangered. Check out this new species described by Pepe M. Haba, and Beverley J. Holt & Xander M. van der Burgt Kew Bulletin https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-023-10096-x

01/02/2024

A group is one that includes a single species. That used to be the case of the genus Morindopsis until A. Arriola et al described Morindopsis ashihoi a in the family endemic to Andaman & Nicobar Islands Kew Bulletin https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-023-10097-w

31/01/2024

Weberbauerella is an enigmatic group of growing in climatically extreme conditions in the such as the in and dry coastal Check out those fixing nodules!
Kew Bulletin
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-023-10136-6

30/01/2024

is a country w/1649 species 263 of which are threatened. A.C. Kyratzis et al explored future priorities for ex situ of this unique Kew Bulletin https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-023-10102-2 Photo Cyclamen cyprium, Cyprus national flower, by Daniel Cahen

29/01/2024

Hot off the press! A new root species from the peninsula in by L.J. Telles Cardoso & J.M. Alvarenga Braga. Check it out Kew Bulletin https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-023-10156-2

28/01/2024

Spiromonistichous phyllotaxy describe leaves that are arranged forming a spiral on a plant's stems and it's unique in the family . Check out this described by Van Canh Nguyen et al from central https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-023-10104-0 Kew Bulletin

27/01/2024

Microcos rumpi is a that grows up to 40 m height and with near 1m trunk diameter it has 7-8 metric tons of biomass. This massive species in endemic to the Rumpi Hills in and is critically endangered Kew Bulletin

We describe Microcos rumpi (Grewiaceae) a massive new species to science from the Rumpi Hills of SW Region Cameroon, a proposed Tropical Important Plant Area. Confined on current evidence to submontane forest, the species is threatened by expanding habitat clearance for farms and is assessed as Crit...

27/01/2024

In "The genus L. (Capparaceae) in and " Silvio Fici taxonomically revised 25 species including Capparis averyanovii, a new species named after Russian Leonid V. Averyanov. Kew Bulletin https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-022-10071-y

25/01/2024

Vanilla calamitosa a new species of from by Denis Carvalho et al. The scientific name of this species comes from the struggles faced by the author during the . Check it out Kew Bulletin https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-023-10092-1

24/01/2024

A further of Isoglossa ( ) from the Eastern Arc Mountains of by Iain Darbyshire and Andreas H**p Kew-Science Rbg Kew Kew Bulletin https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-023-10103-1