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LONDRES, 17 dic (Reuters) – Las orqu\u00eddeas no suelen considerarse feas, pero as\u00ed es como el Real Jard\u00edn Bot\u00e1nico de Kew, en Londres, describi\u00f3 a una nueva especie de la usualmente vibrante y delicada flor descubierta en los bosques de Madagascar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gastrodia agnicellus, una de las 156 especies de plantas y hongos nombrados por cient\u00edficos de Kew y sus colegas en 2020, ha sido coronada como \u201cla orqu\u00eddea m\u00e1s fea del mundo\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLas flores de 11 mil\u00edmetros de esta orqu\u00eddea son peque\u00f1as, marrones y bastante feas\u201d, dijo Kew en su lista de los 10 principales descubrimientos del a\u00f1o. La orqu\u00eddea depende de los hongos para su nutrici\u00f3n y no tiene hojas ni ning\u00fan otro tejido fotosint\u00e9tico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Aunque se considera una especie amenazada, las plantas tienen cierta protecci\u00f3n porque est\u00e1n en un parque nacional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Entre los otros descubrimientos oficialmente nombrados este a\u00f1o se encontraban seis nuevas especies de hongos toadstool webcap en el Reino Unido y un extra\u00f1o arbusto encontrado en el sur de Namibia en 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
El bot\u00e1nico Wessel Swanepoel no pudo ubicar el arbusto en ning\u00fan g\u00e9nero conocido y tampoco lo pudo hacer nadie m\u00e1s, por lo que Swanepoel convoc\u00f3 al experto molecular Felix Forest de Kew y a su equipo para que lo analizaran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
El resultado fue que no solo era una nueva especie, sino un nuevo g\u00e9nero y una nueva familia, llamada Tiganophyton karasense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Si bien anualmente se nombran unas 2.000 plantas para la ciencia, las nuevas familias solo se publican una vez a a\u00f1o.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
El arbusto tiene extra\u00f1as hojas escamosas y crece en salinas naturales extremadamente calientes, de ah\u00ed su nombre Tiganophyton, derivado del lat\u00edn \u201cTigani\u201d, o \u201csart\u00e9n\u201d, y \u201cPhyton\u201d, o \u201cplanta\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reporte de Mike Collett-White. Editado en espa\u00f1ol por Lucila Sigal<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fuente: https:\/\/lta.reuters.com\/article\/madagascar-orquidea-idLTAKBN28R2JR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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