-
Article
Open AccessGenomic insights into rapid speciation within the world’s largest tree genus Syzygium
Species radiations, despite immense phenotypic variation, can be difficult to resolve phylogenetically when genetic change poorly matches the rapidity of diversification. Genomic potential furnished by palaeop...
-
Article
New Guinea has the world’s richest island flora
New Guinea is the world’s largest tropical island and has fascinated naturalists for centuries1,2. Home to some of the best-preserved ecosystems on the planet3 and to intact ecological gradients—from mangroves to...
-
Article
Open AccessDiplycosia papuana (Ericaceae: Vaccinioideae: Gaultherieae): a new endemic species from central New Guinea
Diplycosia papuana (Ericaceae: Vaccinioideae: Gaultherieae), a new endemic species from central New Guinea, is described and illustrated here. Notes on the distribution, ecology and conservation status of the new...
-
Article
Opportunities and challenges for an Indonesian forest monitoring network
Permanent sampling plots (PSPs) are a powerful and reliable methodology to help our understanding of the diversity and dynamics of tropical forests. Based on the current inventory of PSPs in In...
-
Article
Open AccessA monograph of the Nengella group of Hydriastele (Arecaceae)
A taxonomic revision is presented of the Nengella group of the palm genus Hydriastele (Arecaceae: Arecoideae) in New Guinea, which comprises slender understorey or midstorey palms with small, protandrous inflores...
-
Article
Open AccessImportant Plant Areas: revised selection criteria for a global approach to plant conservation
Despite the severe threats to plant habitats and high levels of extinction risk for plant species in many parts of the world, plant conservation priorities are often poorly represented in national and global f...
-
Article
Three new genera of arecoid palm (Arecaceae) from eastern Malesia
Recent botanical exploration in eastern Malesia has resulted in the discovery of three spectacular palm taxa that have proved difficult to assign to genus. New evidence from molecular phylogenetic research ind...
-
Article
Two new species of Licuala Thunb. (Arecaceae: Coryphoideae) from North Moluccas and Western New Guinea
Two new palm species, Licuala adscendens Barfod & Heatubun and L. urciflora Barfod & Heatubun, are described from Obi Island in North Moluccas and Waigeo Island in Raja Ampat District, Western New Guinea respecti...
-
Article
A monograph of Cyrtostachys (Arecaceae)
Cyrtostachys Blume (Areceae: Arecaceae) is treated in this study as a genus of tree palms with a disjunct distribution pattern across Malesia and consisting of seven species. Three specie...
