Research
Project Background The Kerry Lily, Simethis planifolia is a beautiful, diminutive white flowered member of the lily family (Asphodelaceae), and is listed under the Flora Protection Order, 1999. In Ireland, it is only known from three locations, occurring in the...
Research
Project Background Pandanus is a big genus, with at least 600 species found from Africa to the Pacific. In New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, 74 species are known, and eight new taxa are included in this guide. At first sight, Pandanus often strike people as uniform...
Research
The geographical distribution of 67 taxa of Nepenthes in South-east Asia which show no incongruence in gene topologies. Four taxa, out of a total of 14 taxa, which show incongruence in gene-tree topologies, and may therefore be of hybrid origin. Project...
Research
Lambay is an island of just over 240 hectares lying some four kilometres off the east coast of county Dublin, Ireland. Two previous publications have dealt with the vascular flora of Lambay: Hart’s survey of 1881 and 1882 (Hart, 1883); and Praeger’s 1905 and...
Research
Project Description A literature survey of Irish island floras (Achill, Aran, Aranmore, Clare, Inishbofin, Inishturk, Mullet and Rathlin) revealed a correlation between the log of the island’s area to the log of species richness. Aran, Clare, Inishbofin and...
Research
Dr Matthew Jebb Hydnophytum kajewskii (above), a species of ant-plant from Bougainville island, has the most elaborate tuber structure known, and must rank as one of the most elaborate and bizarre vegetative structures in the entire plant kingdom. The boat-shaped...
