News tagged with botanical journal of the linnean society
Petenaeaceae - a new family of flowering plants
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new family of flowering plants has been described to accommodate Petenaea cordata, a species of uncertain affinities.
Mar 17, 2011 |
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Rare carnivorous plant on top 10 list of newly discovered species
Each year The International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University names the Top 10 new species described in the previous calendar year. The list for 2009 was published to coincide with the 303rd anniversary ...
Jun 01, 2010 |
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Scientists think 'killer petunias' should join the ranks of carnivorous plants
Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Natural History Museum believe that carnivorous behaviour in plants is far more widespread than previously thought, with many commonly grown plants - such as petunias ...
Dec 04, 2009 |
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Weeds that reinvented weediness
Flowering plants are all around us and are phenomenally successful—but how did they get to be so successful and where did they come from? This question bothered Darwin and others and a paper published in the September issue ...
Sep 03, 2009 |
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Cracking the species code for plants
A recent article published in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society searches for one or more short pieces of DNA code that could eventually be used in an automated fashion to reliably identify almost all land plant ...
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Feb 17, 2009 |
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