I caught the Clade reference, having done research in that area myself. It also just sounds like a cool name.

I did not know about pando though. Granted, I had heard of the concept of super-organisms like pando (I think there’s also a fungus that’s similar)… but didn’t know pando. And again, why pando (but not directed at the film but at the scientists who named a quaking aspen that)? I have to say though, I appreciate that aspect of the story more knowing about the real-life pando.