夏呂唇柱苣苔

Microchirita hairulii (Gesneriaceae) • A New Species from Perlis, Peninsular Malaysia

於馬來西亞半島第七種 Microchirita 屬植物.

DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.118.32186

隱密乳香

Boswellia occulta (Burseraceae) • A New Species of Frankincense Tree from Somalia (Somaliland)

於索馬里Ceel Afweyn區發現, 多年來重要經濟作物(乳香原料).

 DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.394.3.3

高氏樹蘭

Epidendrum choccei (Orchidaceae) • A New Species from Northern Peru

於秘魯發現的蘭花, 為記念蘭花專家 Miguel Ángel Chocce Peña (1977-2017) 而命名.

DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.394.1.7

資訊氾濫(二)

盧曼覆苞蘭

Stichorkis davidlohmanii (Orchidaceae: Malaxideae) • A New Species from the southern Philippines

於菲律賓發現. 較似 Stichorkis compressa, 言而分別在於本種 not flattened pseudobulbs, obovate, slightly conduplicate labellum with a blunt, obtusely rounded when flattened apex and a circular in outline anther cap.

DOI: 10.6165/tai.2019.64.65

資訊氾濫

被遺忘的天才

Constantine Samuel Rafinesque - Wikipedia


In the third edition of On the Origin of Species published in 1861, Charles Darwin added a Historical Sketch that acknowledged the ideas of Rafinesque.

In a letter in 1832, Rafinesque wrote:

The truth is that Species and perhaps Genera also, are forming in organized beings by gradual deviations of shapes, forms and organs, taking place in the lapse of time. There is a tendency to deviations and mutations through plants and animals by gradual steps at remote irregular periods. This is a part of the great universal law of perpetual mutability in everything. Thus it is needless to dispute and differ about new genera, species and varieties. Every variety is a deviation which becomes a species as soon as it is permanent by reproduction. Deviations in essential organs may thus gradually become new genera.

這是在翻查 石柑子 Pothos chinensis (Raf.) Merr. 時找到的故事.

生命無常

心形牛齒蘭

Appendicula cordata (Orchidaceae) • A New Species of Appendicula section Pododesme from eastern Indonesia

在印尼東部找到的新種, 與 A. infundibuliformis 差異在於花的附屬物呈心形, 唇瓣向右返折.

DOI: 10.14203/reinwardtia.v16i2.3156