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Last year, eleven Portuguese botanists described 19 new plants in various locations around the world, one of them in Portugal, in the Alentejo.

How were the Top 10 chosen? An international committee of experts, chaired by Janine N. Caira of the University of Connecticut, selected the top 10 new species for this years list. Nominations were invited through the species.asu.edu Web site and also generated by institute staff and committee members. The Caira committee had complete freedom in making its choices and developing its own criteria, from unique attributes or surprising facts about the species to peculiar names. This years committe...