Centaurea leucophaea biformis (Timb.-Lagr.) Dostál (1976:200)

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonyms: Centaurea biformis Timb.-Lagr. in Rev. Bot. Bull. Mens. 10: 262 (1892); Centaurea paniculata subsp. biformis (Timb.-Lagr.) Rouy in Rev. Bot. Syst. Géogr. Bot. 2: 159 (1904); Centaurea paniculata var. biformis (Timb.-Lagr.) B.Bock in Bull. Soc. Bot. Centre-Ouest 43: 209 (2012)

Conservation Status

Missing (Walter & Gillett, 1998:158) or Extinct (Humphreys et al., 2019 [alleged synonymy is homotypic, thus extinct]; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024; POWO, 2024)

Last record: 1892 (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024)

Distribution

France

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Christenhusz, M. and Govaerts, R. (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]

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]

POWO. (2024). Centaurea leucophaea subsp. biformis (Timb.-Lagr.) Dostál. Plants of the World Online (online resource). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 21 January 2024]

Roskov Y. et al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

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.

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