Cosmos atrosanguineus (Hook.) Voss?

Chocolate cosmos

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Rediscovered in the wild in 1986? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos_atrosanguineus

Distribution

Mexico

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Fay, M. (1994). Cosmos atrosanguineus a well known but endangered member of the Compositae. Kew Scientist 5: 8.

D.E. Gómez-Pedraza, J.M. Mejía-Muñoz, J. Martínez-Solís, B. Morales-Vázquez. (2019?). Morphogenetic variation in the multiplication and rooting in vitro of wild clones of chocolate cosmos (Cosmos atrosanguineus). ISHS Acta Horticulturae 1237: XIII International Symposium on Flower Bulbs and Herbaceous Perennials. [Abstract]

D.E. Gómez-Pedraza, J.M. Mejía-Muñoz, B. Morales-Vázquez, M.G. Peña-Ortega, J. Martínez-Solís. (2019?). Interspecific hybridization between Cosmos atrosanguineus Sherff and Cosmos purpureus (DC.) Benth & Hook. f. ex Hemsl. ISHS Acta Horticulturae 1237: XIII International Symposium on Flower Bulbs and Herbaceous Perennials. [Abstract]

Hawkes, J. G., Maxted, N. and Ford-Lloyd, B. V. (2000). Field Gene Banks, Botanic Gardens In Vitro, DNA and Pollen Conservation, pp. 92-107. In: The Ex Situ Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

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]

Rice, Graham. (2017). The story of Cosmos atrosanguineus. The Plantsman [2017](June): 112-119.

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.

http://www.transatlanticplantsman.com/transatlantic_plantsman/2017/06/chcoloate-cosmos-atrsangineus-not-extinct.html

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