Data for the ‘Orchid Observers’ project by Shuttleworth, S, O’Donnell, J, Lintott, C, Tweddle, J

“…The project asks volunteers to carry out field photography and biological recording, with online transcriptions of the 15,000 historic herbarium specimens in the NHM. The herbarium specimens were collected over 300 years, which tell researchers about the flowering times in the past.…”

An account of the genus Cistanche (Orobanchaceae) in Iraq and taxonomic considerations in the Middle East by Aldughayman, M, Thorogood, CJ, A Al-Mayah, AA, Hawkins, JA

“…Here we present a taxonomic account for the genus <em>Cistanche</em> in Iraq, where several taxa have been reported, most of them doubtfully. Using herbarium specimens, images of living material, and taxonomic literature, we found evidence of only one species occurring with certainty in Iraq: <em>Cistanche tubulosa</em>. …”

The origin of cultivated mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana L. var. mangostana): critical assessments and an evolutionary-ecological perspective by Yao, T. L., Nazre, M., McKey, D., Jalonen, R., Duminil, J.

“…Also, we propose a testable new evolutionary-ecological framework that we call “Forest-Dusun Interface” to infer processes in the origin of mangosteen. …”
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