New Plant Species Discovered
A new species of plant which spreads its own seeds has been discovered in the South American country of Brazil. The plant, whose seed-dropping motion is somewhat akin to genuflection, was given the name Spigelia genuflexa.
According to a late-breaking report by BBC News that the plant’s branches form fruits and then drop facing the ground to deposit “the capsules of seeds … and sometimes [bury] them in the soft cover of moss.” Reported last in PhytoKeys, this recent discovery was made by José Carlos Mendes Santos, a handyman that works for the botanist Alex Popovkin in Bahia, Brazil.
According to a recent press release, the handyman found the inch-high plant behind a bush. Popovkin brought the plant inside and put the photographs on the internet, in hopes it would be identified. It took scientists from three universities to figure it out. Live Science reports “Scientists from Rutgers University, the State University at Feira de Santana in Bahia, and Western Carolina University collaborated to confirm that the plant was indeed a new species.”
According to Discover, the plant’s behavior is only one example of geo-carpy which is “a rare adaptation to survival in harsh or short-lived environments with small favorable patches.
A botanist over at Rutgers University, Lena Struwe told the BBC, “In this species, it is most likely that because it is so short-lived (just a few months) and lives in small fragments of suitable environments, the mother plant is most successful if she deposits her seeds right next to herself, [rather than] spreading them around far into less suitable environments.”
In India, scientists recently discovered that 12 new frog species. Also in the news recently, scientists in Utah discovered a new species of raptor dinosaurfor. This is the first time in over 75 years.
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