Gastrodia africana Kraenzl. (1900:179)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Demorchis africana (Kraenzl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones in Austral. Orchid Rev. 84(1): 38 (2019)
Conservation Status
Last record: pre-1897 (Murphy et al., 2023:16)
Rediscovered in 1968 (Murphy et al., 2023:16)
IUCN RedList status: Endangered
Distribution
Cameroon
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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Cheek, M. and Cable, S. (2000). Gastrodia africana. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2000: e.T39575A10249150. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T39575A10249150.en. Downloaded on 18 November 2016.
Cribb, P., Fischer, E. and Killmann, D. (2010). A revision of Gastrodia (Orchidaceae: Epidendroideae, Gastrodieae) in Tropical Africa. Kew Bulletin 65: 315-321.
Droissart, V., Sonké, B. and Stévart, T. (2006). Les Orchidaceae endémiques d'Afrique centrale atlantique présentes au Cameroun. Systematics and Geography of Plants 76(1): 3-84.
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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]
Murphy, Bruce, Onana, Jean Michel, Burgt, Xander M. van der, Ngansop Tchatchouang, Eric, Williams, Jenny, Tchiengué, Barthélemy and Cheek, Martin. (2023). Important Plant Areas of Cameroon. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 302 pp. [automatic download]
Pollard, B. J. (2011). Orchidaceae, pp. 383-421. In: J.M. Onana and M. Cheek (eds), Red Data Book of the Flowering Plants of Cameroon: IUCN Global Assessments. Kew Publishing, Kew.
Simo-Droissart, M., Stévart, T., Pollard, B. J., Cheek, M., Cable, S. and Droissart, V. (2020). Gastrodia africana. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T39575A87749962. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T39575A87749962.en. Accessed on 06 April 2024.
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