‘Lost’ fairy lantern spotted in Malaysian Borneo after 151 years

Mongabay
Apr 4, 2018, 7:05 am121 pts
In 1866, the Italian botanist Odoardo Beccari chanced upon a peculiar plant in the rainforests of western Sarawak, in Malaysian Borneo, where he had set up camp. He made detailed sketches of the tiny plant, and many years later, formally described it as Thismia neptunis. There have been no records of the…

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