Maianthemum salvinii (Baker) LaFrankie (1986:588)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Tovaria salvinii Baker in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 14: 567 (1875); Smilacina salvinii (Baker) Hemsl. in Biol. Cent.-Amer., Bot. 3: 368 (1884); Vagnera salvinii (Baker) Standl. in J. Washington Acad. Sci. 15: 457 (1925); Smilacina amoena var. salvinii (Baker) Emons in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 32: 404 (1945)
Conservation Status
Rediscovered (Humphreys et al., 2019)
Distribution & Habitat
Guatemala & Mexico
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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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]
La Frankie, V. J. (1986). Morphology and taxonomy of the New World species of Maianthemum (Liliaceae). Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 67: 371-439.
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