‘Lost’ for 170 years, rare plant recorded in Sri Lanka

Mongabay
Aug 31, 2026, 12:35 am80 ptsTrending
Researchers have a population of an extremely rare plant species, last recorded in Sri Lanka in 1855, growing in a lowland forest fragment along the Sitawaka Ganga River. Documenting the finding in a recent study, researchers write that the plant, Indianthus virgatus, while officially listed as critically…

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