‘Lost’ for 170 years, rare plant recorded in Sri Lanka
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“Researchers have rediscovered a population of the rare plant Indianthus virgatus, which had not been officially recorded in Sri Lanka since 1855. The plant was found growing in a lowland forest fragment along the Sitawaka Ganga River.”
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