In June, a team of MBG Malagasy staff botanists relocated the site of the 1994 collection, and have subsequently begun to accrue material for the numerous specialized studies to be conducted in the coming months by scientists throughout the world. Preliminary field surveys indicate a large and thriving population. Takhtajania perrieri was originally described in 1963 by the French forest botanist Rene Capuron in the genus Bubbia, known from Australia, New Caledonia and the Lord Howe Islands. In St. Louis in June, while celebrating his 87th birthday and the publication of his latest synthesis on the classification of flowering plants, Dr. Takhtajan was presented with a specimen of Takhtajania for the Komarov Botanical Institute in St. Petersburg. Both he and the entire international botanical community anxiously await the forthcoming studies that this wonderful rediscovery will engender.
Contemporary plant systematics.
Second edition, p. 139. The family Winteraceae consists of 9 genera and 100 species distributed in the montane subtropics and tropics of Mexico, Central and South America, most diverse in southeastern Australasia, and absent from Africa, except Madagascar. Economically the groups is of very little value, except Drimys winteri , winter's bark from South America, which is used as a tonic locally. Along with the Magnoliaceae, the Winteraceae is considered by most modern classifications to be one of the oldest known flowering plant families. Contemporary plant sytematics.