''Ormosia howii'', the Hainan ormosia, is a species of
flowering plant in the family
native to southern
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
. It was initially found on Diaoluo Shan,
Hainan Island in 1954 and then in
Yangchun
Yangchun, alternately romanized as Yeungchun, is a county-level city in southwestern Guangdong, China, administered as a part of the prefecture-level city of Yangjiang. Yangchun has an area of and had approximately 1.05 million inhabitants in ...
,
Guangdong in 1957, both times in extremely small populations. The species is now apparently
extinct
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.
It was a small tree, high, growing in open forests on mountain slopes.
References
howii
Endemic flora of China
Extinct flora of Asia
Flora of Hainan
Trees of China
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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