Crudia zeylanica (Thwaites) Benth.
Sri Lanka legume tree
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Rediscovered in 2019
IUCN status: Extinct
This species has been identified as one of the 50 best candidates for de-extinction, ranking 26/50 (Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022), unaware of its rediscovery.
Distribution
Sri Lanka
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Abeywickrama, B. A. (1990). The threatened plants of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka: NARESA. UNESCO - Man and the Biosphere National Committee for Sri Lanka.
Albani Rocchetti, Giulia, Carta, Angelino, Mondoni, Andrea, Godefroid, Sandrine, Davis, Charles C., Caneva, Giulia, Albrecht, Matthew A., Alvarado, Karla, Bijmoer, Roxali, Borosova, Renata, Bräuchler, Christian, Breman, Elinor, Briggs, Marie, Buord, Stephane, Cave, Lynette H., Da Silva, Nílber Gonçalves, Davey, Alexandra H., Davies, Rachael M., Dickie, John B., Fabillo, Melodina, Fleischmann, Andreas, Franks, Andrew, Hall, Geoffrey, Kantvilas, Gintaras, Klak, Cornelia, Liu, Udayangani, Medina, Leopoldo, Reinhammar, Lars Gunnar, Sebola, Ramagwai J., Schönberger, Ines, Sweeney, Patrick, Voglmayr, Hermann, White, Adam, Wieringa, Jan J., Zippel, Elke Zippel and Abeli, Thomas. (2022). Selecting the best candidates for resurrecting extinct-in-the-wild plants from herbaria. Nature Plants 8: 1385-1393. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-022-01296-7 [Supplementary Tables S1-S6]
Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]
Le Roux, Johannes J., Hui, C., Castillo, M. L., Iriondo, J. M., Keet, J.-H., Khapugin, A. A., Médail, F., Rejmánek, M., Theron, G. Yannelli, F. A. and Hirsch, H. (2019). Recent Anthropogenic Plant Extinctions Differ in Biodiversity Hotspots and Coldspots. Current Biology 29(17): 2912-2918.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.07.063
Oldfield, Sara, Lusty, Charlotte and MacKinven, Amy (compilers). (1998). The World List of Threatened Trees. Cambridge, U.K.: World Conservation Press. 650 pp.
Senaratna, S. (1995). A critical anaylsis on the current status of ex situ conservation strategies of Sri Lanka's flora and fauna and its overall importance in Biodiversity Conservation in Sri Lanka. Unpublished M.Sc. Thesis.
WCSP (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
Wijesinghe, L.C.A., Gunatilleke, I.A.U.N., Jayawardana, S.D.G., Kotagama, S.W. and Gunatilleke, C.V.S. (1990). Biological conservation in Sri Lanka (A national status report). Colombo Natural Resources, Energy and Science Authority of Sri Lanka.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre. (1998). Crudia zeylanica. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1998: e.T32556A9715161. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T32556A9715161.en. Downloaded on 17 November 2016.
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