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Featured: Annonaceae Diclinanona tessmannii Diels

The last of their kind

We hold 7 of the world's 100 most irreplaceable flowering plants.

and 18 of the world's 100 most irreplaceable gymnosperms.

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Amorphophallus lewallei Malaisse & Bamps

#2

Critically Endangered

Amorphophallus lewallei Malaisse & Bamps

Araceae

Gomortega keule (Molina) Gunckel

#11

Endangered

Gomortega keule (Molina) Gunckel

Gomortegaceae

Lyonothamnus floribundus A.Gray

#15

Endangered

Lyonothamnus floribundus A.Gray

Rosaceae

Petenaea cordata Lundell

#24

Endangered

Petenaea cordata Lundell

Petenaeaceae

Featured plants

Persicaria pinetora (Hemsl.) H.Gross

SPECIES

Polygonaceae Persicaria pinetora (Hemsl.) H.Gross

Lessertia frutescens (L.) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning

SPECIES

Fabaceae Lessertia frutescens (L.) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning

Mackaya bella Harv.

SPECIES

Acanthaceae Mackaya bella Harv.

Recent Publications

Generic delimitation of Turraea (Meliaceae–Turraeeae) and allied genera in continental Africa and Madagascar

Martin W. Callmander, Félix Forest, Martin Cheek et al.

2026

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

High risk of extinction across the flowering plant tree of life

Félix Forest, Ruth Brown, Sven Buerki et al.

2026

Science

A piece of the Piper puzzle: Systematics of Piper section Enckea, a Neotropical section in a giant genus

Cara Hastings, Emma Casselman, Christopher Davidson et al.

2024

Systematic Botany