Paschalococos disperta Dransfield (1991)
Rapa Nui palm, Easter Island palm
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Jubaea disperta
Conservation Status
Extinct (Prebble & Dowe, 2008; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024)
Last record: 1520–1660 AD (Prebble et al., 2012); 1770 (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024)
Distribution
Easter Island (= Rapa Nui)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Dransfield, J. (1991). Paschalococos disperta J. Dransfield, gen. et sp. nov., pp. 64-65. In: Zizka, G. (ed.). Flowering plants of Easter Island. Palmarum Hortus Francofurtensis, Scientific Reports 3, Frankfurt am Main.
Other references:
Bowdery, Doreen. (2015). An enigma revisited: identification of palm phytoliths extracted from the 1983 Rapa Nui, Rano Kao2 core. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 24(4): 455-466. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43554340
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]
Delhon, Claire and Orliac, Catherine. (2007). The vanished palm trees of Easter Island: new radiocarbon and phytolith data, pp. 97-110. In: The Gotland Papers. Selected Papers from the VII International Conference on Easter Island and the Pacific. Migration, Identity, and Cultural Heritage (eds P. Wallin and H. Martrinsson-Wallin). Gotland University Press, Sweden.
Dransfield, John et al. (1984). A recently extinct palm from Easter Island. Nature 312: 750-752. [Abstract]
Flenley, J. R., King, S. M., Jackson, J. and Chew, C. (1991). The late Quaternary vegetational and climatic history of Easter Island. Journal of Quaternary Science 6: 85-115.
Hunt, Terry. (2007). Rethinking Easter Island’s ecological catastrophe. J. Archaeol. Sci. 34: 485-502.
Mann, D., Edwards, J., Chase, J., Beck, W., Reanier, R., Mass, M., Finney, B. and Loret, J. (2008). Drought, vegetation change, and human history on Rapa Nui (Isla de Pascua, Easter Island). Quaternary Research 69(1): 16-28.
Orliac, Catherine and Orliac, Michel. (2008). Extinct flora of Easter Island, pp. 197-208. In: Di Piazza, Anne, Pearthree, Erick and Sand, Christophe (eds.). At the Heart of Ancient Societies: French Contributions to Pacific Archaeology. Les Cahiers de l'Archéologie en Nouvelle-Calédonie.
Prebble, Matthew and Dowe, John L. (2008). The late Quaternary decline and extinction of palms on Pacific islands. Quaternary Science Reviews 27(27-28): 2546-2567. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.09.015
Prebble, Matthew et al. (2012). Forest clearance and agricultural expansion on Rapa, Austral Archipelago, French Polynesia. The Holocene 23(2): 179-196. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683612455551
Rull, Valentí. (2020). The deforestation of Easter island. Biological Reviews 95(1): 124-141. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12556
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.
Zizka, G. (1991). Flowering plants of Easter Island. Palmarum Hortus Francofurtensis, Scientific Reports 3: 1-108. Palmengarten, Frankfurt am Main.
http://www.geneticjungle.com/2008/11/fallen-giants-of-easter-island.html
http://www.pacsoa.org.au/w/index.php?title=Paschalococos_disperta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paschalococos