Centaurea pseudoleucolepis Kleopow (1926:20)

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Centaurea margaritacea subsp. pseudoleucolepis (Kleopow) Dostál in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 71: 204 (1976)

Conservation Status

Erroneously listed as Extinct by (Bilz et al., 2011:10,43,61; Melnyk, 2011; Baillie & Butcher, 2012:88; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024) (see Abeli et al., 2021)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

Listed as Extinct by (Bilz et al., 2011:10,43,61; Melnyk, 2011; Baillie & Butcher, 2012:88; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024), with a last record in the 1930's (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024), but around 150,000 plants exist (Perehrym, 2016; fide Abeli et al., 2021).

Distribution

Ukraine

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Abeli, Thomas, Albani Rocchetti, Giulia, Barina, Zoltan, Bazos, Ioannis, Draper, David, Grillas, Patrick, Iriondo, José María, Laguna, Emilio, Moreno-Saiz, Juan Carlos and Bartolucci, Fabrizio. (2021). Seventeen ‘extinct’ plant species back to conservation attention in Europe. Nature Plants 7: 282-286. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-021-00878-1

Baillie, Jonathan E. M. and Butcher, Ellen R. (2012). Priceless or Worthless? The world’s most threatened species. London, UK: Zoological Society of London.

Bilz, M., Kell, S. P., Maxted, N. and Lansdown, R. V. (2011). European Red List of Vascular Plants. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.

Buord, S. and Lesouëf, J. Y. (2006). Consolidating knowledge on plant species in need for urgent attention at European level. Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle/European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity and Conservatoire Botanique National de Brest, Paris and Brest.

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]

Melnyk, V. (2011). Centaurea pseudoleucolepis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T165235A5994236. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T165235A5994236.en. Downloaded on 17 November 2016.

Perehrym, M. M. (2016). In: Vascular Plants of the Emerald Network of Ukraine Under Protection of the Bern Convention (ed. Solomakha, V. A.) (Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine).

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 5 October 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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