An 'extinct' plant was rediscovered in the remnants of Ecuador's cloud forests.
, found growing next to a waterfall at Bosque y Cascada Las Rocas, a private reserve in coastal Ecuador.A plant named for its own disappearance isn’t quite so extinct after all. In new research this week, botanists provide clear evidence that populations of the wildflowercan still be found in the cloud forests of Ecuador, decades after it was thought to have been killed off.
It can take a long time for scientists to dig through the data and samples collected from the wild and identify truly new species . In 2000, a research team argued that a low-laying herb with bright orange flowers collected from Centinela had to be a previously unknown species ofainly gone from the world already. And so, with no shortage of morbid humorIt would take another 20 years for scientists to mount a dedicated hunt forsightings of cloud forest remnants in the area. Though this research was led by scientists at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, it heavily involved local researchers in Ecuador.
“As soon as we arrived, we saw that there was still forest. And the most important thing for us to observe when we got there was seeing this plant,
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