Hesperantha saldanhae Goldblatt (1984:119)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing (Raimondo et al., 2009; Goldblatt et al., 2021) or Extinct (Hilton-Taylor, 1996; Humphreys et al., 2019; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024; POWO, 2024)
Last (and only) record: 1962 (holotype) (Goldblatt et al., 2021 [holotype only]; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024 [date])
Distribution
Vredenburg, Western Cape Province, South Africa
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Goldblatt, P. (1984). A revision of Hesperantha (Iridaceae) in the winter rainfall area of southern Africa. Journal of South African Botany 50: 14-141.
Other references:
Christenhusz, Maarten J. M. and Govaerts, Rafaël. (2023). Uitgestorven. Op plantenjacht rond de wereld: 1-511. Sterck & De Vreese.
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]
Germishuizen, G. and Meyer, N. L. (eds.). (2003). Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.: i-vi, 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
Goldblatt, P. (2003). A synoptic review of the African genus Hesperantha (Iridaceae: Crocoideae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 90(3): 390-443.
Goldblatt, P. and Manning, J. C. (2000). Cape Plants: A conspectus of the Cape Flora of South Africa. Strelitzia 9. National Botanical Institute, Cape Town.
Goldblatt, P. and Manning, J. C. (2020). Iridaceae of southern Africa. Strelitzia 42: 1-1159. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
Goldblatt, P. and Raimondo, D. (2007). Hesperantha saldanhae Goldblatt. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version 2017.1. Accessed on 2017/06/06.
Goldblatt, P., Raimondo, D. and Patel, T. (2021). Hesperantha saldanhae Goldblatt. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version. Accessed on 2024/10/27.
Hilton-Taylor, Craig (ed.). (1996). Red data list of southern African plants. Strelitzia 4. South African National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
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]
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POWO. (2024). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 27 October 2024]
Raimondo, D., von Staden, L., Foden, W., Victor, J. E., Helme, N. A., Turner, R. C., Kamundi, D. A. and Manyama, P. A. (2009). Red List of South African Plants. Strelitzia 25. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.
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.
W.C.M.C. (1996). Threatened plant database of the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. W.C.M.C., Cambridge, U.K.