Stunningly underwhelming, species of the genus Isoetes, commonly known as quillworts, bear amazing similarity to grass plants with which they are often confused. The US state of Mississippi has now ...
The humble quillworts are an ancient group of about 250 small, aquatic plants that have largely been ignored by modern botanists. A group of researchers, led by Boyce Thompson Institute’s Fay-Wei Li, ...
Ferns are an interesting group of plants from a very ancient lineage, all of them vascularized, with plenty of water-conducting internal “plumbing.” Ferns have vascular tissue in common with the ...
Ferns are an interesting group of plants from a very ancient lineage, all of them vascularized, with plenty of water-conducting internal “plumbing.” Ferns have vascular tissue in common with the ...
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan Forestry Research Institute said Monday that it is using cold storage technology to aid the reproduction of Taiwan quillworts, an endangered endemic aquatic plant. Huang ...
Researchers have learned to propagate Taiwanese quillwort, a rare semiaquatic herb that is only found near Menghuan Lake (夢幻湖) on Taipei’s Yangmingshan (陽明山) and which is under threat of extinction.
Lake Ōmāpere, home to one of the rarest plants in the world. Photo / Lee Gamble For more than 20 years, NIWA scientists have been nurturing three plants, first discovered in Lake Ōmāpere almost 50 ...