Scalesia atractyloides

Scalesia atractyloides, which was indeed believed extinct until, in 1995, a tiny group of plants of one of its two subspecies (S. a. darwinii) was found on an inaccessible cliff. The site was fenced and two plants remain. In 1997, two plants of the other subspecies (S. a. atractyloides) were found, on a similarly inaccessible cliff, and this new site was also fenced. More