{"id":543960,"date":"2018-11-07T11:36:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T15:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/11\/181107103602.htm"},"modified":"2018-11-07T11:36:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T15:36:02","slug":"an-overlooked-giant-useful-and-abundant-african-zam-palm-newly-described-for-science-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=543960","title":{"rendered":"An overlooked giant: Useful and abundant, African &#8216;Zam&#8217; palm newly described for science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It might have been it&#8217;s extremely large size, or maybe confusion with a similar species, that has previously discouraged botanists from collecting and describing a fairly common palm, now named Raphia zamiana. Locally known and widely used in Cameroon and Gabon, the &#8221;Zam&#8221; has now been officially described, alongside a less common Gabonese endemic species from the same genus and already possibly endangered. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might have been it&#8217;s extremely large size, or maybe confusion with a similar species, that has previously discouraged botanists from collecting and describing a fairly common palm, now named Raphia zamiana. Locally known and widely used in Cameroon &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543961,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543960\/revisions\/543961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}