Quito Dicliptera (Dicliptera quitensis)
This terrestrial, herbaceous plant is known only from the type material which was collected in 1933 on a river bank in the vicinity of the city of Quito, the capital of Ecuador.
The species was never found again since and is almost for certain extinct.
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edited: 19.06.2020
Dead as the Dodo – Holocene Extinctions
… about 5858 taxa have disappeared since the beginning of the Anthropocene era (since about 10000 BCE)
