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Chelsea D. Specht

Chelsea D. Specht

American botanist

May 10, 2026

MattHOST
35:24
[laughs]
35:24
... and, like, a, you know, little, that's kind of what it looks like.
35:27
So it's laminar.
35:28
It has, um, it has conical epidermal cells.
35:32
It's showy, and then it, it, it's flattened, um, as far as that.
35:36
So, and then, but then the other five infertile stamens fuse together and make this novel structure called the labellum.
35:46
And when you collect that plant in the wild, um, and you make an herbarium specimen out of it, as, you know, chances are, um, you know, when you as a, when you as a botanist, you're going out, you're collecting Costaceae.

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MattHOST
43:21
[laughs]

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