Phalaenopsis javanica J.J.Sm.
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct in the wild
Rediscovered in the 1960's, but driven to extinction in the wild by a single orchid nursery only two years later (Comber, 1990; IUCN/SSC Orchid Specialist Group, 1996)
Distribution
Java & Sumatra, Indonesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Comber, J. (1990). Orchids of Java. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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]
IUCN/SSC Orchid Specialist Group. (1996). Orchids - Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. IUCN, Gland Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
WCSP (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/