FIU: Botanist on Quest to Identify and Name Endangered Orchids
October 14, 2025
October 14, 2025
MIAMI, Florida, Oct. 14 -- Florida International University, a component of the public university system in Florida, issued the following news:
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Botanist on quest to identify and name endangered orchids
By Michelle Marie Arean
Deep in the forests of Southeast Asia, Pankaj Kumar kept careful watch over 23 small, wild plants in 2012. He returned to them again and again, waiting for them to bloom. They were orchids, he was certain -- but with . . .
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Botanist on quest to identify and name endangered orchids
By Michelle Marie Arean
Deep in the forests of Southeast Asia, Pankaj Kumar kept careful watch over 23 small, wild plants in 2012. He returned to them again and again, waiting for them to bloom. They were orchids, he was certain -- but with . . .