{"id":202574,"date":"2024-12-27T12:44:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T18:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/completely-new-to-science-botanists-stumble-upon-unique-exotic-flower-in-the-philippines"},"modified":"2024-12-27T12:44:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T18:44:27","slug":"completely-new-to-science-botanists-stumble-upon-unique-exotic-flower-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/completely-new-to-science-botanists-stumble-upon-unique-exotic-flower-in-the-philippines","title":{"rendered":"Completely New to Science: Botanists Stumble Upon Unique Exotic Flower in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/completely-new-to-science-botanists-stumble-upon-unique-exotic-flower-in-the-philippines2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Botanists discovered a new lipstick vine species, <em>Aeschynanthus pentatrichomatus<\/em>, in the Philippine rainforest. Found during a 2022 expedition, the plant is critically endangered and underscores the need for conservation in biodiversity hotspots.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have announced the discovery of a previously unknown species of lipstick vine, uncovered in the depths of the Philippine rainforest. The groundbreaking findings were published in the <em><i>Nordic Journal of Botany<\/i><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A team of botanists from <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-oxford\/\">Oxford University<\/a> and the University of the Philippines Los Ba\u00f1os made the discovery during a 2022 expedition to the remote Barangay Balbalasang rainforest on Luzon Island. Accessing this nearly impenetrable wilderness required several days of travel and the use of machetes to clear a path. During their exploration, the team was hosted by the Banao Tribe, an indigenous community who protect their local forest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Botanists discovered a new lipstick vine species, Aeschynanthus pentatrichomatus, in the Philippine rainforest. Found during a 2022 expedition, the plant is critically endangered and underscores the need for conservation in biodiversity hotspots. Scientists have announced the discovery of a previously unknown species of lipstick vine, uncovered in the depths of the Philippine rainforest. The groundbreaking [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}