Those who read The Plant Messiah will perhaps remember that the author, Carlos Magdalena, was greatly enamoured of water lilies. Since landing his dream job at Kew Gardens (a most inspiring story), he has been able to indulge his interests, which aren’t limited to water lilies.
I read with interest that research he and many colleagues have been doing has led to the identification of a third species of giant water lily. The link to the article is here. One thing that makes it a very interesting read is that the long paper (31 pages) covers the issues that make plant identification important for conservation and how this team wove together historical records, contemporary citizen science, and state-of-the-art genomic techniques of living samples to make their determination.