Rare plant thought extinct rediscovered by citizen scientist in remote Australia https://phys.org/news/2026-01-rare-thought-extinct-rediscovered-citizen.html

#Rediscovery of a presumed #extinct plant species, Ptilotus senarius (Amaranthaceae), through #iNaturalist https://connectsci.au/bt/article/74/1/BT25063/268212/Rediscovery-of-a-presumed-extinct-plant-species

"Ptilotus senarius is a small, slender shrub with pleasing purple-pink flowers that look a bit like an exploding firework with feathers. It's found only in a band of rough country near the Gulf of Carpentaria, and hadn't been collected since 1967."