Butia leptospatha (Burret) Noblick (2006:169)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Syagrus leptospatha Burret in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 15: 105 (1940)
Conservation Status
Last record: 1936 (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024)
Rediscovered in 1994 (Noblick, 2006)
Still listed as Extinct by (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024).
Distribution
Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil & Paraguay
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Burret, M. (1940). Palmae neogeae XII. Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 15: 105
Other references:
Christenhusz, Maarten J. M. and Govaerts, Rafaël. (2024). Plant extinction in the Anthropocene. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boae045 [Appendix S1]
Gauto, M. I. (2009). Conservation status assessment of Paraguayan Palms (Arecaceae): 1-132. Universitéde Genève, Faculté des sciences. Masters in Biology.
Giulietti et al. (2009). Plantas raras do Brasil: 1-496. Conservação International, Belo Horizonte, MG.
Glassman, S. F. (1972). A revision of B.E.Dahlgren's index of American plants. Cramer. 1-294.
Glassman, S. F. (1987). Revisions of the palm genus Syagrus Mart. and other selected genera in the Cocos alliance. Illinois Biological Monographs 56: 1-230.
Govaerts, R. and Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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]
Lorenzi, H., Noblick, L. R., Kahn, F. and Ferreira, E. (2010). Brazilian Flora Arecaceae (Palms): 1-268. Instituto Plantarum de Estudos da Flora LTDA, São Paulo, Brazil.
Noblick, Larry R. (2006). The Grassy Butia: Two New Species and a New Combination. Palms 50(4): 167-178.
POWO. (2024). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 28 September 2024]
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.
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