{"id":547677,"date":"2025-06-09T16:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=547677"},"modified":"2025-06-09T16:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:28:06","slug":"newly-discovered-but-already-endangered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/newly-discovered-but-already-endangered\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly discovered but already endangered"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_547679\" style=\"max-width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright vertical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-547679 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-margarida-estrela-das-montanhas-2024-11-800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-margarida-estrela-das-montanhas-2024-11-800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-margarida-estrela-das-montanhas-2024-11-800-250x248.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-margarida-estrela-das-montanhas-2024-11-800-700x696.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-margarida-estrela-das-montanhas-2024-11-800-120x119.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Dayvid Couto\u2009\/\u2009INMA<\/span>The mountain star: the first species of the genus described in 50 years<span class=\"media-credits\">Dayvid Couto\u2009\/\u2009INMA<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>On the outcrops of the inselbergs (isolated rock hills) in Esp\u00edrito Santo, there is a yellow flower that is very different from any other. Dubbed the mountain star (<em>Wunderlichia capixaba<\/em>), the species was discovered during a 2023 expedition to Pedra do Cabrito, in the municipality of Castelo, in the Atlantic Forest. It is distinguished from others of the genus by the fact that it does not lose its leaves when its flowers bloom, and it has been classified as critically endangered. \u201cIn addition to being microendemic, the species population is very small, with an estimated number of less than 50 individuals,\u201d says Arist\u00f4nio Teles, a botanist from the Federal University of Goi\u00e1s. He adds that the inselbergs are suffering the consequences of human activity, with the mountain star\u2019s habitat impacted by the extraction of ornamental stones and coffee farming (<em>Ag\u00eancia Bori <\/em>and <em>Phytotaxa<\/em>, September 9).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New plant species found in Esp\u00edrito Santo in 2023 already threatened with extinction","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[206,213,224],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-547677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-biodiversity","tag-botany","tag-ecology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554143,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547677\/revisions\/554143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547677"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=547677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}