Billburttia vaginoides Sales & Hedge (2009:243)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1957 (Rakotonandrasana et al., 2017)
Rediscovered in October 2015 (Rakotonandrasana et al., 2017)
Distribution
Madagascar
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Magee, A. R., Van Wyk, B.-E., Tilney, P. M., Sales, F., Hedge, I. and Downie, S. R. (2009). Billburttia, a new genus of Apiaceae (tribe Apieae) endemic to Madagascar. Plant Systematics and Evolution 283: 237-245. [Abstract]
Other references:
Miller, J. S. et al. (2021). Flora of Madagascar and the Comoro Islands: Boraginales, Olacaceae and allies, Apiaceae. Collection: Faune et Flore Tropicales: 1-448. Publications scientifiques du Muséum, Paris; IRD, Marseille.
Rakotonandrasana, Stéphan R. et al. (2017). The rediscovery of Billburttia vaginoides, with notes on the morphology, anatomy, traditional uses and conservation status of the genus Billburttia (Apieae, Apiaceae). Phytotaxa 321(3): 265-276.
Sales, F., Hedge, I.C., Coutinho, A.X.P. & Marques, A. (2004). Apiaceae subfamily Apioideae in Madagascar. South African Journal of Botany 70: 446-448.