REDISCOVERED SPECIES: Extinct plant rediscovered

After being absent for more than a century, Euphrasia arguta was recently rediscovered by a New South Wales (Australian) forestry worker. The plant is partially parasitic, since it connects “through a haustorium to the rootlets of other plants.”

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