Revisiting Katou-Indel in 17th-century botanical treatise Hortus Malabaricus yields new finds for researchers
The new palm species Phoenix roxburghii | Photo Credit: Special arrangement A palm originally described in the monumental 17th-century botanical treatise Hortus Malabaricus continues to fascinate botanists more than three centuries later, leading to the discovery of a new species and the reclassification of existing ones. Recent studies on the palm, named Katou-Indel in the…