Centaurea saxatilis (K.Koch) B.D.Jacks. (1893:476)

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonyms: Centaurium saxatile K.Koch in Linnaea 24: 419 (1851); Phaeopappus saxatilis Boiss. in Fl. Orient. 3: 602 (1875); Centaurea raphanina subsp. saxatilis (K.Koch) Greuter in Willdenowia 33: 55 (2003)

Treated as a valid subspecies Centaurea raphanina subsp. saxatilis by (Euro+Med PlantBase, 2023; contra Abeli et al., 2021), but as a synonym of C. raphanina raphanina by (Abeli et al., 2021; POWO, 2023).

Conservation Status

Extinct (Humphreys et al., 2019) if valid (see above)

Distribution

Greece

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

Dimopoulos, P., Raus, Th., Bergmeier, E., Constantinidis, Th., Iatrou, G., Kokkini, S., Strid, A. and Tzanoudakis, D. (2013). Vascular plants of Greece: An annotated checklist. Berlin: Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem; Athens: Hellenic Botanical Society. [Englera 31].

Euro+Med PlantBase. (2023). Centaurea raphanina subsp. saxatilis. Available at: https://europlusmed.org/cdm_dataportal/taxon/b8685956-f4d2-4bd0-b163-6b04ef1ef501 [Accessed 14 December 2023]

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. (2023). Centaurea raphanina subsp. raphanina. Plants of the World Online (online resource). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 13 December 2023]

WCSP (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/

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