Dypsis lucens (Jum.) Beentje & J.Dransf. (1995:315)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Neophloga lucens Jum. in Ann. Mus. Colon. Marseille, sér. 4, 6(3): 15 (1928 publ. 1929)
Conservation Status
Missing (Rakotoarinivo & Dransfield, 2012 ["pending...surveys to relocate this species"]) or Extinct (Humphreys et al., 2019; POWO, 2024)
Last record: 1912 (Rakotoarinivo & Dransfield, 2012)
IUCN RedList status: Data Deficient
"For example, three species from the Bay of Antongil region, Dypsis lucens, D. monostachya and D. plurisecta have not been seen in the wild since 1930; their habitats would correspond to the coastal plain currently converted into cultivated fields around the town of Maroantsetra. Despite recent expeditions to the forests around this town, and to Masoala National Park and Makira Natural Park, these species remain to be rediscovered."
(Rakotoarinivo et al., 2020:29)
Distribution
Madagascar
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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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]
POWO. (2024). Dypsis lucens (Jum.) Beentje & J.Dransf. Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 10 February 2024]
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Rakotoarinivo, M. and Dransfield, J. (2012). Dypsis lucens. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T195944A2434972. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T195944A2434972.en. Accessed on 11 February 2024.
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