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Thottea beungongtanoeh, a new species from Aceh, northern Sumatra
- jaqalopes 4y agoThe article doesn’t say new species of what, so I looked it up. It’s a kind of plant: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristolochiaceae https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristolochiaceae
- mkl 4y agoIt's at the end of the abstract: "photographs of the living plants". I found it frustrating to read because of that missing detail too, but I expect it would be obvious to the intended readers.
- larsrc 4y agoIt would be, it's right there in the title: Aristolochiaceae. From Wikipedia: "The Aristolochiaceae are a family, the birthwort family, of flowering plants with seven genera and about 400 known species[...]"
- larsrc 4y agoNot sure why this particular species is HN-worthy, when hundreds or thousands of new species are found every year: https://www.discoverwildlife.com/news/new-species-discovered-this-year/ https://www.discoverwildlife.com/news/new-species-discovered...
- culi 4y agoAnd even more go extinct! :( But forreal. As someone who generally loves going down botany rabbitholes, I'm quite confused as to why this was posted. I guess it has a lot of stamens and lobes for its genus and it looks quite pretty, but there's definitely other genera that commonly have much more and can look just as pretty
- sph 4y agoPlaying the karma roulette for some involves posting anything you find on the net, tech related or not, and seeing what sticks.
- larsrc 4y agoKarma schmarma.