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Barry J Conn

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Researcher, University of Sydney

Bulbophyllum alkmaarense: New Guinea is home to more than 2,400 species of native orchids. Andre Schuiteman/CSIRO

August 12, 2020

‘Majestic, stunning, intriguing and bizarre’: New Guinea has 13,634 species of plants, and these are some of our favourites

Bruce Webber, CSIRO; Barry J Conn, University of Sydney, and Rodrigo Cámara-Leret, University of Zurich

With tarantula-like orchids and giant bananas, New Guinea is officially the most floristically diverse island in the world.

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