One tree or two? Genes confirm Iban traditional knowledge in Borneo - Nature.com

Words in the languages of the Iban and Dusun people are the tip-off that a tree given a single scientific name is actually two species.

The pingan trees fruit (left) is distinct from the lumok trees (right), but Western scientists misclassified the two trees as one species for almost two centuries.Credit: left, Elias Ednie; right, El… [+3600 chars]

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