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Kewa acida, St. Helena, November 1980

Kewa acida

Published by Daniel Mosquin on April 5, 2017

Renamed in 2014 from Hypertelis acida (originally Pharnaceum acidum by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker), Kewa acida is one of eight species in this recently-described genus. Through molecular phylogenetic research, it was also determined that Kewa represents its own family, so a new vascular plant family was erected: the Kewaceae.

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Flower and foliage of Magnolia ashei

Magnolia ashei

Published by Daniel Mosquin on May 15, 2006

The Flora of North America account for Ashe’s magnolia:

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Gossypium darwinii, growing in Ecuador

Gossypium darwinii

Published by Daniel Mosquin on January 13, 2006

Darwin’s cotton, photographed near Urbina Bay of Isabella Island (Ecuador) by the Garden’s director (in 2006), Dr. Quentin Cronk.

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Flowers of Tristerix longebracteatus

Tristerix longebracteatus

Published by Daniel Mosquin on January 3, 2006

Tristerix longebracteatus photographed on the Cotopaxi Volcano of Ecuador, c. 3800m. Tristerix is a genus of 11 species of South American Loranthaceae (tropical mistletoe family), with striking hummingbird-pollinated flowers. This species parasitizes shrubs in the paramo of the high Andes. Paramo is a vegetation type above the treeline that consists of cold resistant shrubs and […]

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Close-up of Lupinus sulphureus subsp. kincaidii

Lupinus sulphureus subsp. kincaidii

Published by Daniel Mosquin on September 3, 2005

A crabspider (Misumena vatia) is here seen capturing a bumble bee (Bombus sp.) on the rare Kincaid’s lupin (Lupinus sulphureus subsp. kincaidii) in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Kincaid’s lupin is interesting as it is the host of the even rarer Fender’s Blue Butterfly.

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The moss species Takakia lepidozioides

Takakia lepidozioides

Published by Daniel Mosquin on May 19, 2005

This photograph was taken at Jervis Inlet, British Columbia, on a very enjoyable Botany graduate field trip with UBC bryologists Shona Ellis and Wilf Schofield (co-author of the Takakiaceae for the Bryophyte Flora of North America project), organized by graduate students Nyssa Temmel and Chris Sears.

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