{"id":721399,"date":"2022-04-15T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=721399"},"modified":"2022-04-15T08:00:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T12:00:01","slug":"lost-south-american-wildflower-named-extinctus-rediscovered-but-still-endangered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=721399","title":{"rendered":"Lost South American wildflower named &#039;extinctus&#039; rediscovered (but still endangered)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific names get chosen for lots of reasons\u2014 they can honor an important person, or hint at what an organism looks like or where it&#8217;s from. For a tropical wildflower first described by scientists in 2000, the scientific name &#8220;extinctus&#8221; was a warning. The orange wildflower had been found 15 years earlier in an Ecuadorian forest that had since been largely destroyed; the scientists who named it suspected that by the time they named it, it was already extinct. But in a new paper in PhytoKeys, researchers report the first confirmed sightings of Gasteranthus extinctus in 40 years.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-04-lost-south-american-wildflower-extinctus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lost South American wildflower named &#8216;extinctus&#8217; rediscovered (but still endangered)<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific names get chosen for lots of reasons\u2014 they can honor an important person, or hint at what an organism looks like or where it&#8217;s from. For a tropical wildflower&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=721399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=721399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=721399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=721399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}