Botanists discover new species of plants relatively frequently, but describing a new genus may be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. A team led by Carmen Ulloa, associate curator at the Missouri ...

Trees in the sweet-gum family Altingiaceae are well-known for their quality timber, use as ornamentals, the source of styrax, and from Chinese medicine. The three previously recognized genera ...

Syzygium is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the myrtle family that contains more than 1,500 species. Only 14 of those were previously known to occur on Sulawesi, the world’s eleventh-largest ...

This remarkable image greeted me when I opened my Twitter feed yesterday morning: spacer Researchers gathered nearly 7,000 evolutionary trees from 3,000 studies and fed them into a database. They then ...

NEW DELHI, Jan. 21 (UPI) --A group of tree frog species scientists thought had gone extinct has turned out to be rather abundant in India and elsewhere in Asia. The golf ball-sized frogs were ...

Researchers have described a new genus of tree of the Aptandraceae family, a group that is related to the sandalwoods (order Sanatalales). The genus, which has been given the name Hondurodendron, is ...