
A blazing orange wildflower thought to be extinct for 36 years was rediscovered
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The wildflower Gasteranthus extinctus in western Ecuador had been spotted by scientists for the first time since 1985. The elusive tropical plant is endangered due to the mass deforestation of its environment.
The wildflower Gasteranthus extinctus has only been spotted in Ecuador's cloud forest and was last documented in 1985, according to a new study in the journal PhytoKeys. The researchers saw a dim future for the flower, so they named it "extinctus" because they believed it would soon die out, said coauthor Dawson White, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Field Museum in Chicago.
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