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"Sri Lanka bars tourists from heart of drought-hit park as El Nino looms"
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"‘Lost’ for 170 years, rare plant recorded in Sri Lanka"
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'Lost' for 170 years, rare plant recorded in Sri Lanka
Researchers have found 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 endangered in Sri Lanka, was presumed possibly […]