Kupe Polystachya (Polystachya kupensis)
This orchid species is known exclusively from the type that was collected in 1996 on the path to Mt. Kupe in the western high plateau of Cameroon.
The species was never recorded again and is possibly extinct.
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edited: 08.05.2021
Dead as the Dodo – Holocene Extinctions
… about 5858 taxa have disappeared since the beginning of the Anthropocene era (since about 10000 BCE)
