Plants Previously Thought Extinct and Subsequently Rediscovered
See Lazarus species
- Badula ovalifolia – from Mauritius. Known in 1830's; collected in 1970 and 1997 but misidentified (Page and D'Argent 1997, IUCN report)/confirmed identity in 2008 (Florens et al., Kew Bulletin)
- Café marron (Ramosmania rodriguesii) - rediscovered on Rodrigues in 1979
- Jellyfish tree (Medusagyne oppositifolia) - rediscovered in Seychelles in the 1970s
- Sichuan Thuja – (Thuja sutchuenensis) – rediscovered 1999 (Sichuan, China)
- Gibraltar Campion (Silene tomentosa) - rediscovered on Gibraltar in 1994
- Astragalus nitidiflorus (1909, Spain) - rediscovered 2004 (Cartagena, Spain)
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