Anthurium leuconeurum Lem. (1862:314)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct (Humphreys et al., 2019:SD1; POWO, 2023) or extinct in the wild
Last record: c.1860 (wild) (source)
There are claims that the species exists in cultivation (viz. plants for sale listed as this species), including two Research Grade iNaturalist observations, but other sources list it as extinct (Humphreys et al., 2019; POWO, 2023).
Distribution
southern Mexico
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Croat, T. B. (1983). A Revision of the Genus Anthurium (Araceae) of Mexico and Central America. Part I: Mexico and Middle America. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 70: 1-211.
Hawkes, J. G., Maxted, N. and Ford-Lloyd, B. V. (2000). Field Gene Banks, Botanic Gardens In Vitro, DNA and Pollen Conservation, pp. 92-107. In: The Ex Situ Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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]
POWO. (2023). Anthurium leuconeurum Lem. Plants of the World Online (online resource). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 8 November 2023]
Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp.
https://vanishingflora.proboards.com/thread/1360/anthurium-leuconeurum
https://www.aroid.org/genera/anthurium/cardiolonchium/leucon.php
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?verifiable=true&taxon_id=276471&locale=en-GB