New tree species from Cameroon is possibly already extinct

Mongabay
Oct 3, 2018, 9:29 am435 pts
Nearly 70 years ago, Edwin Ujor of the Nigerian Forestry Service collected a specimen of a tree from a forest high up in the Bamenda highlands in Cameroon. The specimen was thought to belong to the genus Vepris, a group of plants comprising some 80 species, most of them distributed across Africa. The true…

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