Odoardo Beccari
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Odoardo Beccari was an Italian botanist famous for his discoveries in Indonesia, New Guinea, and Australia. He has been called the greatest botanist to ever study Malesia. The standard author abbrevia
Odoardo Beccari
Beccari in 1910
Malesia, vol. 1, 1877
Thismia neptunis
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Thismia neptunis is a species of Thismia endemic to Borneo. It was discovered by Italian botanist Odoardo Beccari in 1866, and described in 1878. It was not observed again until 2017, when it was firs
Odoardo Beccari
…Later in 1867, he also conducted a long and risky expedition into the interior of Sarawak. In 1866 he discovered and drew in his notebook the plant Thismia neptunis of the family Thismiaceae; only after 151 years, in 2017, was this discovery confirmed. He also discovered a new species of Rafflesia, the largest-flowered…
Thismia neptunis