Lovely Sedge (Carex lepida)
The Lovely Sedge is known only from a single population that was recorded more than 100 years ago on the slopes of the Pichincha Volcano in Ecuador.
The species was never found since and is very likely extinct.
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edited: 21.09.2020
Dead as the Dodo – Holocene Extinctions
… about 5858 taxa have disappeared since the beginning of the Anthropocene era (since about 10000 BCE)
