Almost 200 newplants and fungi were named new to science last year, with conservationists warning that many are already “threatened with extinction”. Today (8 January), the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ...

By Liz Kimbrough Over the past year, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the U.K., officially named 125 plants and 65 fungi. The new-to-science species include a parasitic fungus that ...