Two plants that were thought to have been extinct since the late 1800s have been rediscovered in far northern Australia, according to a report released Saturday.The Queensland state government's State of the Environment report said the two species were found on Cape York, in tropical far north Queensland.
"The Rhaphidospora cavernarum, which is a large herb that stands about one and a half meters [yards] high, has reappeared," state climate change minister Andrew McNamara told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio. "It hasn't been seen in Queensland since 1873."
He said the second plant that has reappeared, another herb called Teucrium ajugaceum, was last seen in 1891.
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