Dypsis commersoniana (Baill.) Beentje & J.Dransf. (1995:236)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Neophloga commersoniana Baill. in Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris 2: 1173 (1894); Neophloga pygmaea Pic.Serm. in Webbia 11: 149 (1955)
Conservation Status
Missing (cf. Rakotoarinivo & Dransfield, 2012 ["Efforts are required to relocate this species"]) or Extinct [by implication] (Humphreys et al., 2019)
IUCN RedList status: Data Deficient
Distribution
Madagascar
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Dransfield, John and Beentje, Henk Jaap. (1995). The Palms of Madagascar. Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and The International Palm Society, Richmond.
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, John. (2010). New species of Dypsis and Ravenea (Arecaceae) from Madagascar. Kew Bulletin 65: 279-303.
Rakotoarinivo, Mijoro and Dransfield, John. (2012). Dypsis commersoniana. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T38527A2872355. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T38527A2872355.en. Accessed on 10 February 2024.
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
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