Researchers at Chicago's Field Museum have now confirmed the first sighting of Gasteranthus extinctus in four decades. Lost South American wildflower is rediscovered in the foothills of the Andes mountains | Daily Mail Online Wildflower believed to be extinct for 40 years spotted in Ecuador Rediscovery of Gasteranthus extinctus L.E.Skog & L.P.Kvist (Gesneriaceae) at multiple sites in western Ecuador