{"id":10037,"date":"2019-09-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/news\/new-tree-species-found-in-vientiane-capital\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T11:46:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T11:46:53","slug":"new-tree-species-found-in-vientiane-capital","status":"publish","type":"news-post","link":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/news\/new-tree-species-found-in-vientiane-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"New tree species found in Vientiane capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The botany scientific journal Phytotaxa has announced that a new\u00a0species of <em>Gluta<\/em> (Anacardiaceae) has been described and illustrated:\u00a0<em>Gluta laosensis<\/em> Tagane &amp; Kameda. It was discovered\u00a0during a botanical exploration in a\u00a0mixed deciduous forest\u00a0in Vientiane Capital and named after researchers Shuichiro Tagane and Chika Kameda.\u00a0After a careful examination using taxonomic literature and dried specimens of the herbaria\u00a0as well as digital specimen images, it was\u00a0confirmed that this plant represents a distinctive taxonomic entity and therefore forms\u00a0a new species. This species is the fourth one of <em>Gluta<\/em>\u00a0known in\u00a0Laos.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From all the other species in the Anacardiaceae section it differs in the smaller stalks, that are less than 4 millimetre long. Additionally, the leaves are teardrop shaped and long or long and oval,\u00a0and the leaf bases are\u00a0rounded to slightly heart-shaped. Also, there are\u00a018\u201324 pairs of secondary veins in the leafs.\u00a0Lastly, <em>G.\u00a0laosensis<\/em>\u00a0grows well in\u00a0mixed deciduous forest and secondary semi-evergreen forest while other species prefer to live\u00a0at edge of rivers. It is distributed in Vientiane Capital, so far only known in\u00a0the\u00a0Sangthong District.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Information source: <a href=\"https:\/\/biotaxa.org\/Phytotaxa\/article\/view\/phytotaxa.415.3.6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phytotaxa<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","format":"standard","news-type":[131],"class_list":["post-10037","news-post","type-news-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","news-type-news"],"acf":{"pkl_story_headline":"A newly discovered tree species in Laos: Gluta laosensis Tagane &amp; Kameda","pkl_story_authors":"","pkl_story_image":10039,"pkl_story_video":"","pkl_story_image_credits":"http:\/\/novataxa.blogspot.com","pkl_story_file":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-post\/10037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news-post"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=10037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}