From Plant Press Vol. 14, no. 2
An exceptionally attractive Malagasy flowering plant, Dombeya gautieri (Dombeyaceae), described by Department of Botany Curator Larry Dorr and Cindy Skema (Massey University, New Zealand) and named in honor of its collector, Laurent Gautier (Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Geneva), was featured in a weekly column published in The Guardian by Quentin Wheeler (International Institute for Species Exploration, Arizona State University). While the Royal Wedding is certain to attract more attention than this new species, the newspaper article will receive more than its share of attention as The Guardian has a print circulation of 280,000 and its on-line readership is second only to that of The New York Times. An image of the holotype is available in the U.S. National Herbarium Type Register.
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