A tropical tree's genome confirms what Indigenous Iban people knew all along
The pingan tree’s fruit is distinct from the lumok tree’s , but Western scientists misclassified the two trees as one species for almost two centuries.New species can hide in plain sight. A popular Asian fruit tree given the scientific namehas been considered a single species by Western science for almost two centuries, despite some Indigenous peoples of Asia applying two names to the tree.
This reclassification exemplifies how Indigenous knowledge can change and strengthen our understanding of biodiversity, says co-author Elliot Gardner, a botanist at the International Center for Tropical Botany in Miami, Florida. “The underlying picture is that the knowledge that we are now corroborating with molecular markers was there all along,” says Matteo Dell’Acqua, a crop geneticist at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy, who was not involved in the study. “There is information we cannot access if we do not speak with traditional cultures.” The research was published on 6 June inwas first incorporated into Western taxonomy in 1837 by Manuel Blanco, a Spanish friar living in the Philippines.
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