Pimpinella schweinfurthii Asch. (1880:67)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Rediscovered or erroneously considered extinct (see below)
Considered an extinct Egyptian endemic by (Humphreys et al., 2019), but extant in Arabia and Oman according to POWO (Plants of the World Online) (Abeli et al., 2022b; POWO, 2023).
Distribution
Egypt, Gulf States & Oman
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Abeli, Thomas, Sharrock, Suzanne and Albani Rocchetti, Giulia. (2022a). Out-of-date datasets hamper conservation of species close to extinction. ResearchSquare preprint. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1250892/v1
Abeli, Thomas, Sharrock, Suzanne and Albani Rocchetti, Giulia. (2022b). Out-of-date datasets hamper conservation of species close to extinction. Nature Plants 8: 1370-1373. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-022-01293-w
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Ghazanfar, S. A. (1992). An Annotated Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Oman and their Vernacular names. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2: 1-153.
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]
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POWO. (2023). Pimpinella schweinfurthii Asch. Plants of the World Online (online resource). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 13 December 2023]
WCSP. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/