Paphiopedilum druryi (Bedd.) Pfitzer 1895
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct in the wild?
Last record: 1865 (Rao et al., 2003:xvii); 1875 (Nayar & Sastry, 1987:264)
Rediscovered in 1974 (Rao et al., 2003:xvii)
Distribution
Tamil Nadu, India
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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Henry, A. N., Vivekananthan, K. and Nair, N. C. (1978). Rare and Threatened Flowering Plants of South India. The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 75: 684-697 [695].
Jain, S. K. and Sastry, A. R. K. (comps.). (1983). Materials for a catalogue of threatened plants of India. Howrah, Botanical Survey of India. 69 pp.
Lucas, Gren L. l. and Synge, Hugh. (compilers). (1978). The IUCN Plant Red Data Book. Morges, Switzerland: IUCN.
Nayar, M. P. and Sastry, A. R. K. (compilers). (1987, reprinted 2000). Red Data Book of Indian Plants. Volume 1. Calcutta: Botanical Survey of India. xiii + 367 pp, 16 pls, figs. [pp. 264-265]
Rao, C. Kameswara, Geetha, B. L. and Suresh, Geetha. (2003). Red List of Threatened Vascular Plant Species in India: Compiled from the 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. ENVIS Centre on Floral Diversity, Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata. xxiv + 144 pp. [automatic download]
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.