A new ‘fairy lantern’ species is found at a Malaysian picnic site

Mongabay
Dec 9, 2025, 12:38 am199 pts
In November 2023, naturalist Gim Siew Tan chanced upon an unusual plant with whitish-peach flowers growing near the buttress of a tree at a popular picnic site in Hulu Langat Forest Reserve in Selangor, Malaysia. Researchers subsequently collected and analyzed specimens of the plant and found that it was a…

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