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New Zealand gains a fern genus named after the Chinese imperial guard, Hiya

2018-10-12
By: Leon Perrie
On: 12 Oct 2018

Botanist Leon Perrie recently posted about the desirability of minimising taxonomic name changes. He writes here about the need to change the name of a fern to reflect its newly discovered evolutionary relationships.Read more

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