Hello dear readers,
I know I do not post here very often these days (I'm being very active on Facebook and Instagram though- just look for "A Garden's Chronicle"). There will be a few posts however here, at last, in the following days. I hope you will enjoy them. I'm writing today because I am happy to share with you my latest contribution to a botanical paper: the formal description of Nepenthes diabolica, a new species of tropical pitcher plant from Sulawesi, Indonesia. The paper was published a few days ago. Here are the references of the paper :
Bianchi, A., C.C. Lee, M.R. Golos, F.S. Mey, M. Mansur, Y.M. Mambrasar & A.S. Robinson (2020). Nepenthes diabolica (Nepenthaceae), a new species of toothed pitcher plant from Central Sulawesi. Phytotaxa 464(1): 29–48.
You can check the paper here.
It is far from being the first scientific paper that I co-authored or authored but I have to say I am particularly proud of this one. When I fell in love with carnivorous plants in 2004, I remember I was stroke then by a particular plant which had just been discovered. It was because of a single picture (first photo below) taken by adventurer, photograph and Nepenthes expert Chien Lee which has become iconic in some way. At the time it was nicknamed «Nepenthes hamata hairy » or « Nepenthes red hamata hairy » because of the blades that ornate the peristome of the pitchers and their red color and shaggy hairs. Little would I have imagined then than 16 years later, I would be one of the botanists to describe this strange plant new to science. Life can really be surprising...
Big congratulations and hugs to Andrea Bianchi from Trento Botanical Gardens, main author of the paper, and to my fellow co-authors: Chien Lee, discoverer of the species, Alastair Robinson, Victoria Botanical Gardens (and supreme sifu 😜) , ‘bionic-eyed’ Michal Golos from Bristol University of science, Muhammad Mansur and Yasper Manbrasar, both from Bogor herbarium in Indonesia. It was a true pleasure gentlemen. 😎
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