New tree species from Cameroon is possibly already extinct
▻https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/new-tree-species-from-cameroon-is-possibly-already-extinct
Nearly 70 years ago, Edwin Ujor of the Nigerian Forestry Service collected a specimen of a tree from a forest high up in the Bamenda highlands in Cameroon.
Now, in a new study, researchers have formally described the Ujor specimen as a new species named #Vepris_bali.
The researchers believe the species is either critically endangered or already possibly extinct, mainly because it has been found in only one location, and because the higher-altitude regions from which the Ujor specimen was collected have mostly been cleared for agriculture.
