This Flower Was Named For Its Own Extinction, But It Didn't Get The Memo - Forbes

When biologists named an Ecuadoran tropical flowering herb Gasteranthus extinctus in 2000, they were mourning for a species that, surely, had already been lost to clear-cutting for commercial farms.

G. extinctus lives in the understory of the cloud forest and was believed extinct since the 1980s. Riley Fortier In the few remaining patches of cloud forest in western Ecuador, a team of botanists… [+6531 chars]

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