Dypsis acaulis J.Dransf. (1995:409)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Rediscovered in 1996 (Humphreys et al., 2019)
IUCN RedList status: Endangered
Was considered Extinct in the Wild by (Dransfield & Beentje, 1995 fide Rakotoarinivo et al., 2014), but was later downlisted to Endangered (Rakotoarinivo et al., 2014).
Distribution
Masoala Peninsula (eastern), Madagascar
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Dransfield, J. and Beentje, H. J. (1995). The Palms of Madagascar. Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and The International Palm Society, Richmond.
Other references:
Dransfield, J. (1997). Dypsis acaulis. Principes 41(3): 138-139.
Eiserhardt, Wolf L., Bellot, Sidonie, Cowan, Robyn S., Dransfield, John, Hansen, Lars Emil S. F., Heyduk, Karolina, Rabarijaona, Romer N., Rakotoarinivo, Mijoro and Baker, William J. (2022). Phylogenomics and generic limits of Dypsidinae (Arecaceae), the largest palm radiation in Madagascar. Taxon 71(6): 1170-1195. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12797
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]
Rakotoarinivo, Mijoro and Dransfield, J. (2012). Dypsis acaulis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T195989A2439846. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T195989A2439846.en. Downloaded on 21 November 2016.
Rakotoarinivo, Mijoro, Dransfield, John, Bachman, Steven P., Moat, Justin and Baker, William J. (2014). Comprehensive Red List Assessment Reveals Exceptionally High Extinction Risk to Madagascar Palms. PLoS ONE 9(7): e103684. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103684
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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