It’s a fern.
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I was really hoping this article would say more about what this means, but this is all we get…
Intriguingly, bigger isn’t always better when it comes to genomes, the team says. Large-genomed plants tend to have slower growth, require more nutrients and perform photosynthesis less efficiently. As such, it’s thought that T. oblanceolata is bumping up against the upper limits for genome size.
A humble fern species known as Tmesipteris oblanceolata
Dang. Okay, I wasn’t expecting a fern to have 50x human DNA
Sequencing that would be a removed
DNA polymerase goes brrrrrrrrt