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Yes, please. That would be so very kind of you 🙏 Thank you

Thanks. I think they are distinct too but will need to examine the flowers closely. I'll pickle them. Leaf colouration is not a good character for species distinction, at least to a handful of Peninsular Malaysian and Bornean taxa I'm familiar with. Pity you didn't get to see any flowers in Brunei.

The highland “variant” matches the type (said to be from the mountain of Java) and also as illustrated in one of the early interpretations [as Corysanthes limbata] published in Curtis’s Botanical Magazine in 1863 (vol. 89 (Ser. 3 no. 19) pl. 5357).

Here are 2 entities known as a very variable taxon, #Corybas pictus #Orchidaceae. [Left] A lowland “variant” from Borneo, and [Right] A clone very common in cultivation and likely a highland “variant”. Do you think they are the same? Please let me know what you think 🤔

Clever ecological strategies

It's a weird tree anyway and then it's also a Eugenia in a Syzygium majority area

📣 Out Now! #Eugenia venteri (sect. Jossinia), likely the first flagelliflorous #Eugenia (#Myrtaceae) ever recorded in the 🌏, is found on Manus Island, #PNG. This amazing tree produces flowers on the ground and gets pollinated and dispersed by native 🐀 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Jeremy DeSilva, anthropologist: ‘Empathy and compassion compensated for the physical disadvantages of bipedalism’ The American researcher talks to EL PAÍS about how walking upright was the starting point for our brain enlargement and our pro-social nature

“Caring, empathy and compassion are evolutionary advantages that compensated for the physical disadvantages of bipedalism.” - Jeremy DeSilva, anthropologist (Nov 2004)

english.elpais.com/science-tech...

Two #ultramafic species of #Syzygium #Myrtaceae from the #Phillipines described as new to science by researchers from University of the Philippines Los Baños and Diliman #OpenAccess #EJBotany @RBGE_Science today: rbge.cc/3Vdaoa3

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