Tulbaghia cominsii Vosa (1979:128)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Possibly Extinct in the Wild (Dold et al., 2011) or Extinct in the Wild (POWO, 2024)
Last wild record: 2010 (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024) or later
The species was rediscovered and then completely protected as a managed population (Raimondo et al., 2013:12-13), rendering it Extinct in the Wild.
Distribution
King William's Town district, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Vosa, C. G. (1979). Notes on Tulbaghia: 1. A new species from the eastern Cape and a list of new localities. Journal of South African Botany 45(2):127-132.
Other references:
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]
Dold, A. P., McMaster, C. and von Staden, L. (2011). Tulbaghia cominsii Vosa. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version 2017.1. Accessed on 2017/06/08.
Germishuizen, G. and Meyer, N. L. (eds.). (2003). Plants of Southern Africa an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
Le Roux, Johannes J., Hui, C., Castillo, M. L., Iriondo, J. M., Keet, J.-H., Khapugin, A. A., Médail, F., Rejmánek, M., Theron, G. Yannelli, F. A. and Hirsch, H. (2019). Recent Anthropogenic Plant Extinctions Differ in Biodiversity Hotspots and Coldspots. Current Biology 29(17): 2912-2918.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.07.063
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 7 May 2024]
Raimondo, D., Grieve, K., Helme, N., Koopman, R. and Ebrahim, I. (2013). Plants in Peril. Pretoria: South African National Biodiversity Institute. viii + 208 pp.
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.
Victor, J. E. and Dold, A. P. (2003). Threatened plants of the Albany Centre of Floristic Endemism, South Africa. South African Journal of Science 99: 437-446.