A specimen waitsSourced
Collected in 1909.
Named as a species in 2013.
Specimens of the Mongolian flower Aquilegia daingolica were collected in 1906 and 1909. Yet the species was not formally described until 2013, more than a century after the older specimens were gathered.
A newly named species
can have a long past.
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