Most undescribed plants already endangered - report

Scientists are predicting more than 75 percent of the world’s undescribed plants, those yet to be discovered, are already threatened with extinction and nearly half of all known flowering plant species could be under threat. The dire warning comes in the State of the World’s Plants and Fungi 2023 report published on Tuesday (October 10); an annual global overview of plants and fungi from scientists at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.