What makes a genus real? Scientists use tree bats to evaluate a testable '2 Sigma Genus Concept'

Dr. Amy Baird, Professor of Biology at the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD), and her colleagues are seeking to change the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A New, Endemic Tree Species Discovered in an Indigenous Area is Already Threatened

Botanists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) named the new species, Clusia nanophylla, because of the ...

New Panama tree species identified after 25 years is already endangered

In 2000, a group of STRI botanists collected samples of all the plants from the genus Clusia they could find in Panama to ...
Science Daily

Economically valuable sweet-gum trees: Taxonomy and nine new combinations

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 ...
Mongabay

Rediscovered tree frogs get their own genus, eat their own eggs

Researchers have rediscovered populations of tree frogs in several northern Indian states and China that were presumed extinct for 150 years. The frogs are unique enough to merit their own genus – the ...